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night we took seventy Noctuae ; on no one night less than forty : and we might have 

 had as many more, only that the species were so common they were not worth taking. 

 Among the species captured were the following. 



Polia herbida Hadena thalassina Euplexia lucipara 



bimaculosa contigua Miana strigilis 



serena Xylophasia rurea Mamestra aliena 



Acronycta Ligustri epomidion Ptychopoda bisetata 



Ceratopacha Or Rusina ferruginea Phibalapteryx tersata 



fluctuosa Graphiphora festiva Incurvaria tripunctella 



Thyatira batis brunnea &c. &c. 



J. W. Douglas ; Coburg Road, Kent Road, July, 1844. 



Note on the Species of Agrotis. Great confusion having arisen in the nomencla- 

 ture of the genus Agrotis, in consequence of the larva of many species being unknown, 

 the following remarks may not be unworthy the attention of entomologists. A. cur- 

 soria, together with vitta and aquilina, may be taken abundantly on Yarmouth-denes 

 in the month of August, by pulling down the grass upon the edge of the sand-hills. 

 They have, I believe, been considered varieties of the same species, but from my own 

 observations it would seem that the former is without doubt distinct. On the 19th of 

 last June I found many caterpillars of a species of Agrotis, close to the surface of the 

 sand, and which, on being uncovered, quickly buried themselves again. I brought 

 several to Norwich, and for a week or so afterwards they emerged from the sand every 

 night, as if in quest of food ; it would therefore appear that they are nocturnal feed- 

 ers, and not radicivorous. In a short time they changed into the chrysalis state, form- 

 ing a very brittle cocoon with the sand. On the 31st of July a male and female of A. 

 cursoria came out, and since that time several more of both sexes have appeared. The 

 specimens vary a little, but do not in the least approach vitta or aquilina. — Henry F. 

 Farr ; Lower Close, Norivich, August 15, 1844. 



Note on the Capture of minute Lepidopterous Insects at Charlton, in Kent. I have 

 recently taken in this locality several rare minute Lepidoptera ; amongst them are the 

 following. 



Pseudotomia compositella Xanthosetia Zcegana Homeosoma Gemina. A 



Cochylis roseana Acleris tripunctana littoral species, and so 



Argyrolepia margaritana Metallosetia spissicornis near London ! 



Lozopera Francillana Phycita binaevella Onocera carnella 



Samuel Stevens ; 38, King St., Covent Garden, August 10, 1844. 



Note on the Capture of Yponomeuta sedella. On the 25th of April last, I caught a 

 specimen of Yponomeuta sedella of Treitschke (' Schm. der Eur.' ix. i. 223), flying on 

 Norbury hill, Norwood ; an insect hitherto unrecorded as British. It is figured and 

 described by Duponchel (' Lep. du France,' xii. 321, pi. 285, f. 8), but in my copy of 

 his work a most important character is omitted from the figure, although mentioned 

 in the description ; namely, the black patch at the base of the fringe of the upper 

 wings, and by which character the insect may be instantly known from Yp. padella, 

 which it otherwise strongly resembles. The following short description will enable 

 any person to recognise the insect, should it fall in his way. Entirely of a deep glossy 

 lead-colour ; the upper wings with three slightly divergent rows of black dots, extend- 

 ing about two-thirds of the length of the wings, each row consisting of about six or 

 seven dots, the space at the tip of the wing spotless, with an irregular patch of black 

 at the base of the fringe itself, on the hinder margin. The caterpillar is said to feed 



