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leaves, and remain throughout the winter on the ground: this will account for the 

 imago being found adhering to the trunks of trees. — Edward Newman."] 



Capture of Phlogophora empyrea, Agrotis saucia and Phibalapteryx gemmaria at 

 Brighton. — Please to record in your November number the capture of Phlogophora 

 empyrea, which was taken a few days since not far from Brighton. Mr. Howse, of 

 St. James Street, and myself, also took at the same time three specimens of Agrotis 

 saucia — another rare insect in this locality ; also the same evening, by Mr. Howse, 

 one male specimen of Phibalapteryx gemmaria, which is in Mr. A. F. Slieppard's 

 collection. Although so rare now, I have no doubt that Phlogophora empyrea will 

 turn up more plentiful, and I would caution tyros in Entomology not to give too long 

 prices for an insect that will most likely be common after another year or two, this 

 being the second locality where it has been taken, and many miles apart. — T. Thorn- 

 croft; 87, North Lane, Brighton % October 14, 1856. 



Capture of Phlogophora empyrea near Lewes, fyc. — I have received accounts of the 

 capture of no less than thirty-six other specimens of Phlogophora empyrea near Lewes, 

 and also near Shoreham : all were taken by sugaring in marshy ground. Four 

 beautiful specimens of Agrotis saucia have been taken in the same localities, and by 

 the same means. — Edward Newman. 



Mr. Gregson s Pozcilochroma stabilana a variety of P. sordidana, — Mr. Stephens' 

 P. stabilana equals P. Solandriana. — At p. 124 of the ' Entomologist's Weekly Intel- 

 ligencer,' Mr. Gregson states of Pcecilochroma stabilana, Steph., " This very variable 

 species I am now breeding from the Myrica Gale." I have just been shown some 

 specimens received from Mr. Gregson of what he calls stabilana, and as they are 

 merely ordinary varieties of P. sordidana I deem it only right to let this fact be 

 known, as it seems an insult to the memory of our lamented friend to state that he had 

 named a "very variable" insect stabilana. I may add that the insects named 

 stabilana by Stephens, if not a distinct species, are very large plain specimens of 

 Solandriana. I think that entomologists ought to be a little more careful in making 

 statements, especially when they are likely to reflect on those who are no longer living 

 to refute them. — Edwin Shepherd; 176, Fleet Street. 



Capture of Sphinctus serotinus of Gravenhoorst. — I had the good fortune to beat a 

 single specimen of this, one of the very rarest of our Ichneumonidae, out of an oak tree 

 in Wickharn Wood, about the middle of the present month. Mr. Smith, of the 

 British Museum, has most obligingly furnished me with the name. — Thomas Ingall ; 

 16, Park Road, Brixton, September 30, 1856. 



NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 



' Annals and Magazine of Natural History? Nos. 103 — 106, dated July 

 — October, 1856. Price of No. 104, 5s., of the others 2s. 6d. each. 

 London : Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 



The contents of No. 103 are as follow : — 

 ' Monograph of the Genus Catops.' By Andrew Murray. 

 ' On a second New Species of Sphscrium from the Paddington 

 Canal.' By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., &c. 



