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records in the entomological journals it appears to have been 

 equally abundant in England. 



The Rev. F. E. Lowe reports the capture of a specimen 

 of Chcerocampa celerio, the Silver Striped Hawk Moth, by 

 Miss Bell, of La Rocquette, in a greenhouse in September, 

 1898. The only other record we have of the occurrence of 

 this rare and beautiful moth in Guernsey is that of two speci- 

 mens bred by Mrs. Boley from larvae found on a vine. These 

 specimens are now in the Guille-Alles Museum. 



The Death's Head Hawk Moth, Acherontia atropos, has 

 been very abundant both in its larval and perfect state. 



Callimorpha hera, the Guernsey Tiger Moth, has also 

 been very common, and several specimens of the variety 

 lutescens have been taken. 



The Rev. F. E. Lowe has again bred specimens of the 

 variety of Dianthcecia luteago named Loivei. 



Mr. Baker has bred some fine specimens of Dianthcecia 

 capsophila from larvae found on Silene maritima. There had 

 been only one previous record of this species from Guern- 

 sey. 



The life history of a curious little moth, whose larva 

 resides in cone-shaped cases made from the lichen on which it 

 feeds, has just been thoroughly worked out by Mr. Tutt, 

 F.E.S., assisted by Dr. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., and several 

 other eminent entomologists, from Guernsey specimens and 

 notes. Mr. Tutt has named this species Luffia lapidella. 



In the Entomologist 's Monthly Magazine for November 

 the Rev. E. R. Bankes, M.A., F.E.S., records the finding of 

 cases of this species on the stone pillars at Stonehenge, and 

 says : — " In June, 1885, cases were found by the Rev. C. R. 

 Digby and myself on rocks and stones on the Purbeck coast. 

 Shortly afterwards we found the cases on rocks at Portland, 

 but having never bred the male imago from any cases collected, 

 we did not attempt to work out the identity of the insect, 

 which, thanks to Mr. Tutt, has now been satisfactorily 

 established. Mr. Luff has met with the species plentifully 

 in Guernsey, and both sexes have recently been bred from 

 cases collected by him there (vide Ent. Rec, 1. c). 



" Lapidella has been included by recent authors in the 

 genus Talceporia, but Mr. Tutt has just announced, in Ent. 

 Rec, xi., 191 (1899), that it is wrongly placed there, and that 

 he intends, in his next volume of the " British Lepidoptera," 

 to describe a new genus under the name of " Lvjffia " for it. 

 I have, therefore, adopted his proposed generic name, although 

 no definition of the genus has yet been published." 



