774 Insects, 



Incurvaria masculella and Oehlmanniella, Lampros ininutella, May, June 



May 4 atrella, July 3 



Lampros oppositella, May, June tripuncta, June 18 



4-punctella, May 6 

 From this list you will perceive several species to be double-broodecl, which have not, 

 to my knowledge, been mentioned as such before. There are two other species, Xan- 

 thosetia Zcegana and Roxana Wceberana, that I have taken, the former May 14, June 

 19 and July 29, the latter in June, July, August and September; and all the speci- 

 mens equally fine. — John Sircom,jun. ; Bridlington, September 13, 1844. 



Note on the capture of a Female of Lithosia muscerda. Although the male of this 

 rare species has frequently been taken in the marshes at Horning, yet from the time 

 of its first discovery by Mr. Sparshall, the female has very rarely been met with. I 

 had the good fortune however to capture the latter sex just before sunset on the 17th 

 of last July, in copula with a male, resting on a piece of grass, a few inches from the 

 ground. It differs in several respects from the male, the abdomen being larger, and 

 the expansion of the wings greater; but the chief distinction is in the antennae, those 

 of the male being highly ciliated (under a lens), while those of the female are hardly 

 if at all so. — Henry F. Farr ; Lower Close, Norwich, October 2, 1844. 



Note on the parasitism of Scopula prunalis. About the middle of April I found 

 some caterpillars of Phlogophora meticulosa in my garden. These I took, and put 

 into a box containing some moss and earth, and supplied them with parsley, which 

 they ate very freely, and were full fed in about ten days. Each spun a slight web 

 among the moss, except one, which, to my surprise, crawled to the top of the box, and 

 spun a fine transparent web across one corner, as a spider would do. In two days it 

 became a brilliant green chrysalis, and in two days after I observed a dingy looking 

 yellowish brown grub, as I thought, issuing from the chrysalis ; and concluded it was 

 one of the numerous pests of entomologists. I expected it would spin a cocoon, but it 

 only attached itself by the extremity, and changed into a brown chrysalis, which (as it 

 did not appear like that of a fly) I did not disturb, and towards the end of June, the 

 23rd I believe, it produced, if I mistake not, Scopula prunalis, No. 836 of Wood's In- 

 dex. This is a simple statement of facts which fell under my own observation, and I 

 thought they might interest some of the readers of ' The Zoologist,' as it is the first 

 instance of the kind which I have seen. — Wm. Turner ; Uppingham, Rutland, Octo- 

 ber 16, 1844. 



Description of Pseudotoynia Artemisia, a new British Moth. In July, last year, I 

 took a single specimen of this insect, at Margate, but did not at that time know its 

 true habitat. In August last, at the same place, while searching about a species of 

 Artemisia for Spilonota foenella, I again met with this insect ; and wherever I found 

 the plant, I was sure to find the insect also. When disturbed, it would sometimes fly 

 down to the clover or saintfoin growing near the place, but would generally return 

 to the other plant in a very few minutes. I have found an old specimen in my cabi- 

 net, which I have had for many years unnamed ; and Mr. Chant has another. He 

 also took the insect in July last at Greenhithe, where Artemisia vulgaris was growing. 

 Anterior wings deep fuscous at the base, beyond the middle greyish brown, with a 

 slight golden tinge ; the costa with four oblique blackish dots ; the hinder margin with 

 three small transverse black dots, upon the extreme margin is a slight notch, giving 

 the apex a round appearance ; in the middle of the inner margin is an obscure grey- 

 ish patch : cilia cinereous and glossy, with a slender dark line at the base. Posterior 



