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Chlorissa viridaria. In some plenty, on heath, at the end of May. 



Ptychopoda incanata. Abundant, on the cliffs, in August. 



Heliophobus hispida. I took one specimen of this rare Noctua late in September, 

 on the sand-hills, but have only just succeeded in getting it named, by the kindness 

 of Messrs. Shepherd and E. Doubleday. 



I have omitted from this list a number of the commoner species, — as Agrotis suffusa, 

 Xanthia ferruginea, Orthosia lota, pistacina, &c. — W. J. Bull ; Exmouth, February 

 8, 1849. 



Occurrence of Colias Edusa near Exmouth. — In reply to Mr. Bromfield's inquiry 

 (Zool. 2331) whether Colias Edusa has occurred this year, I may state that several 

 specimens were taken during August, September and October last, under the hill at 

 Exmouth, where it has been seen annually for some time past, occasionally in abun- 

 dance : last year (1847) it occurred in plenty, both at Exmouth and in the country 

 round. I took it as late as the first week in November, at Dawlish. The pale variety, 

 C. Helice, was also taken in company with it. — P. H. Vaughan ; Redland, near Bris- 

 tol, December 16, 1848. 



Occurrence of Vanessa Antiopa, Hipparchia Davus, Charadrina glareosa, fyc, near 

 Cromer. — On the 24th of August last I captured a fine pair (male and female) of 

 Caradrina glareosa, at the Beeston Hill, near Cromer, in Norfolk, which had crawled 

 out of the heath which covers the place. I also saw a fine specimen of Hipparchia 

 Davus on the cliffs, which I was unable to capture, as it quickly disappeared over the 

 edge. I was shown by a collector at the same place a singular variety of Argynnis 

 Adippe, having the upper side of all four wings of a deep brown colour, without spots, 

 but with a lighter margin, in which were three or four darker lunules, and which had 

 been caught in the neighbourhood ; and I heard from the same person that there had 

 been another specimen of Vanessa Antiopa taken there this spring. My specimen, 

 which was captured there last autumn, was the first known to have been taken in that 

 locality. — A. D. Michael ; 9, Red Lion Square, December 18, 1848. 



Examine the dry Burdock-heads (Arctium lappa). — In Mr. Stephens' cabinet are 

 placed as specimens of Cleodora silacella, lucidella, falciformis and ochroleucella, se- 

 veral — at first sight — different looking insects : in my opinion they are all referrible 

 to one variable species, — the true Tinea lappella of Linneus, — which is now in the 

 larva state in the dry heads of the common burdock (Arctium lappa). Mr. Douglas, 

 who has examined attentively Mr. Stephens' specimens, doubts the correctness of my 

 bold assertion ; and in order to settle the disputed point, as well as to enrich their 

 collections with an insect most people want, I call upon every entomologist in the 

 country to collect all the burdock heads they can get, and put them in their breeding- 

 cages : the larvae require no feeding or attention, and the moths will appear in June 

 and July. Thistle-heads afford sustenance to other Micro-Lepidopterous larvae, and 

 the teazle-head is well known as the habitat of Antithesia gentianaeana and Cochylis 

 roseana. — H. T. Stainton ; Mountsfield, LevAsham, February, 1849. 



Information concerning new Continental Tineidce. — I have been informed, by Herr 

 P. C. Zeller, that there is a species of Lithocolletis extremely abundant near Paris 

 which closely resembles Messaniella, but has a hook on the cilia : and the following 

 new species have been discovered on the Continent in the group monographed by him 

 in the third volume of the ' Linnaea Entomologica,' viz., one allied to scitella, from 

 Hypericum ; two allied to spartifoliella, one of which frequents Cytisus Laburnum, and 



