5210 insects. 



growing on Box Hill, from tbe 22nd of June to the 20th of July, which shows that 

 they must last a long time, particularly conturbatella, which were fine the last time I 

 took them. Of conturbatella, I have bred four specimens from larvae which I found 

 spun up in the tops of the flowering spikes of the Epilobium ; it is a black and nimble 

 larva. The last time I visited the locality (July 20th) I took several larvae mining in 

 the leaves of the same plant : as this is a new discovery, the miner may possibly turn 

 out another new species. — Id. 



Capture of Coleophora conspicuella in Headley Lane. — On the 20th of July I took 

 a remarkably fine specimen of Coleophora conspicuella in Headley Lane : this is the 

 third instance of this rare and beautiful insect having occurred in Britain ; the first 

 having been taken by Mr. Bedell, the second by Mr. Stainton and both in the same 

 locality as my own. — Id. 



On the Habits of Argyrestliia glaucinella. — The larvae of this species feed under 

 the bark of oak and Spanish chestnut ; they are excessively local, and only found at 

 the base of trees of enormous size ; to wit, out of one thousand oaks, &c, in Dunham 

 Park, I have found them only on one Spanish chestnut and three oaks. The imago 

 pops out from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., a continual appearance: they rarely rest with the 

 head as a support like most of the species, but place themselves full-stretch on their 

 legs as if ready to bolt ; it is all sham ; nothing is easier than to pop them into a pill- 

 box. I have seen none on the wing ; all were at rest. I do not doubt that they have 

 been overlooked, from the strange place of their abode requiring a person to prostrate 

 himself to be successful in their capture ; they are now out. — R. S. Edleston ; 5, Meal 

 Street, Manchester, June 28, 1856. — [Intelligencer.'] 



Attractiveness of Glycerin fluitans to Moths. — That this grass, when in bloom, was 

 very palatable to Noctuae was known to me long ago: and the same fact was also dis- 

 covered by Messrs. Bedell and Douglas in 1845 ; but I had certainly no conception 

 till the other evening of the extent to which the flowers of the Glyceria are sticky. If 

 you draw your hand several times across a batch of this grass at this season of the 

 year you will find that your fingers are about as sticky as if you had dipped them 

 in a solution of sugar. I do not know that the Glyceria proves attractive to rarities, 

 though many of the commoner species will swarm at it; but it may be serviceable 

 to some incipients to know that the swampy edges of ditches and ponds will fur- 

 nish them with plants ready sugared. — H. T. Stainton; July 14, 1856. — [Id.~\ 



What the Lancashire Entomologists have to " brag " about. — The following list is 

 hastily made out as an answer to Mr. Stainton's reiterated remarks, that the English 

 entomologists never look for new species until some one has found them. I had 

 thought that the fact of their being found was proof they were looked for ; however, 

 as we do look for both new and old things down here, and, as I think, his remarks are 

 not correct, and, therefore, ought not to go on the Continent uncontradicted, I send 

 you the following list of what has been done by Lancashire collectors. Since the first 

 number of the ' Entomologist' was published, it may be said that some of the species 

 named have also been found by the Southern collectors. Granted, and this is greater 

 proof, if any more were wanted, that the English entomologists do look for new spe- 

 cies. On reference to the ' Entomologist ' and to the list of captures in the early 

 volumes of the ' Zoologist,' it will be seen at once what were considered wonderful 

 captures in those days, and it will also be seen that the things I have named were 

 rarely, if ever mentioned, as having been taken ; in fact, many of them are quite new 



