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" This will be well known to our readers as a very variable 

 species. The variation of the species and a detailed description of 

 three named forms, viz. : Var. barretti, Dby., var. brunneago, Esp., 

 and var. olbiena, Hb.-Gey., are given in the British Noctuee and their 

 varieties, vol. 1, pp. 134-136. Since then Major Ficklin has captured 

 a somewhat grey form, var. fcklinii, in Cornwall, and Mr. Lowe's 

 makes another addition to the varietal list." 



During this season Mr. Lowe has succeeded in breeding 

 fourteen specimens of this new form. The best Moths cap- 

 tured during the year were Leacania albipuncta, taken by the 

 Rev. F. E. Lowe in his garden, at sugar, on September 2nd, 

 and Agrotis Iwiigera, also at sugar, on September 9th. L. 

 albipuncta had not been seen since 1871, when I took a speci- 

 men at flowers of ragwort. The Rev. F. E. Lowe has also 

 taken two specimens of a very pretty species of Micro- 

 Lepidoptera, Tortrix pronubana, which is new to the British 

 list. 



The Convolvulus Hawk Moth, Sphinx convolvuli, has 

 been extremely abundant, and numbers of specimens have 

 been brought to me which were found resting on sheets, 

 walls, &c. Many specimens were captured whilst hovering 

 over flowers in gardens at Delancey Hill, Burnt Lane and 

 near St. Stephen's Church. 



On November 8th, Mr. A. Collenette brought me a full 

 fed larva of Acherontia atropos, the Death's Head Moth. It 

 had been brought into the house from his garden by a cat ; 

 strange to say it was not injured in any way. It has since 

 entered the ground and changed into a pupa. The above is 

 a very late date for the appearance of this insect in the larval 

 state. 



In the Entomologist 's Monthly Magazine for September, 

 1898, Mr. James Eardley Mason, of Lincoln, gives a list 

 of the Hemiptera-Heteroptera captured by himself in the 

 Channel Islands during August, 1891. One species, Trape- 

 zonotus Ullrichii, Fieb., taken at Jerbourg, is new to the 

 Guernsey list, and two species, Heterogaster urticce, Fab., and 

 Drymus pilicornis, Muls., are additions to the Alderney list. 

 Orthotylus concolor, Kb., recorded for Sark, is also an addition. 



In Coleoptera I have to add one species, viz., Ptinus fur, 

 which was captured in a shop in Mansell Street on March 1st. 



The following rare beetles, already on the list, have also 

 been taken : Panageus quadripustulatus , Cetonia morio and 

 Hister quadrimaculatus . 



Two species have also been added to the list of Guernsey 

 Diptera. 



