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destructive to fruit trees. On enquiry it was found that this 

 tree had been recently imported from England. 



The Rev. F. E. Lowe records the capture of no less than 

 seven specimens of Leucania albipuncta, a very rare moth, 

 which had only once before been recorded for Guernsey. 

 These were taken at sugar, on various dates between 

 August 2nd and September 17th. I also took two specimen? 

 of this species at Grande Mare, Vazon, during August. 



Other captures made by Rev. F. E. Lowe, are two 

 Leucania putrescens, one on August 24th and the other 

 August 31st. Four Agrotis luniaera, August 29th to 

 September 28th. The best capture, however, was a very 

 perfect male specimen of Leucania vittelina, a species quite 

 new to the island list. Although it has been commoner in 

 England of late years, it is always -considered a great prize. 

 When Newman published his " British Moths," two speci- 

 mens only had been taken in England, at Brighton. 



On looking through some insects captured by Mr. Le 

 Messurier during this season, 1 was pleased to see two 

 specimens of Polyplicenis serecina, a beautiful green Noctua, 

 previously recorded in our Guernsey list but which has not 

 been taken in England. Mr. Baker has taken specimens of 

 Eupithcecia dodoneata, which is an addition to the list. 



Tortrix pronubana^ which is recorded as an addition to 

 our list in the Report for 1898, has been very abundant, and 

 the larvae have been found feeding on Euonymus. This 

 insect is no doubt a recent arrival on the island, and it is to 

 be hoped that it will not prove a pest, as I received a bunch 

 of grapes from a greenhouse in the country with a number 

 of tortrix larvae feeding on the berries. These were bred 

 and turned out to be our new acquaintance, T. pronubana. 



Tischera marginata is an addition to the list of Micro- 

 Lepidoptera. L^uffia lapidella, Goeze, the curious case-making 

 moth, mentioned in the last Report, has been fully described 

 in all its stages in the Second Volume of Mr. Tutt's " Natural 

 History of the British Lepidoptera." He adds the following 

 interesting historical note on the subject. This insect was 

 first noticed by M. De La Voye, who, on August 28, 1666, 

 communicated to the Academie of Sciences (France), a 

 paper on the species. His account of the species is a very 

 satisfactory one, although he considered that the larvae ate 

 stones. The cases that he described had been fonnd in 

 the Benedictine Abbey of Caen, a locality not very far 

 removed from the Channel Islands, where Mr. Luff has this 

 year (1899) found and reared them so abundantly. 



