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Lepidoptera taken at Q nestling, near Hastings, in 1867. — April 3rd, Tceniocarnjja 

 miniosa, 3 at sallow. May 4th, Macaria notata, the only speuimen I saw this year ; 

 8th, Eupithecia dodoneata, 1 specimen. June 1st, Cidaria picata ; 9th, Pt<rrophorus 

 acanthodactyliis ; 12th, Cymatophora or, 1 at sugar; lSth,Aplecta tincta, 1 at sugar. 

 July 1st, Acronycta leporina, 1 at rest; 2nd, Pempelia palumbella ; 5th, Botys 

 lancealis, 2 specimens ; 6th, Pyralis glaucinalis, several ; 20th, Macaria alternata, 

 1 rather worn, in a wood at Fairhght ; 3l8t, Demas coryli, ; Melanthia albicellata, 

 1 specimen. August 9th, Acidalia vnomata. Also Eupithecia virgaureata, Pterophorus 

 microdactylus, and P. tephradactyhis, without note of date. — Id., April 8th, 1868. 



Cbstnia pyralina in Suffolk. — I bred this from a pupa found at Great Gleuham, 

 In Suffolk. I mention this insect to correct an error in my former record. I should 

 have said that some years ago I used to take it at Great Glemham, not uncommonly, 

 at light. — Id. 



Note on Phlceodes crenana. — While collecting last autumn in the neighbourhood 

 of Richmond Park, I beat from a birch-bush a Tortrix pupa, which had been in the 

 cavity of a curled-up leaf. After a few days a fine specimen of PJilceodes crenana, 

 emerged from it. I beHeve this insect is generally regarded as a sallow-feeder, and 

 it is just possible that the individual in question may have been so, for there were 

 sallows growing up mingled with the boughs of the bush from which I beat it. 

 The leaf in which it had spun was, however, birch. It is worthy of note, also, that 

 early spring is the recorded time of appearance of this insect in the perfect state. — 

 T. Blackburn, Grassmeade, Wandsworth. 



Note on Stauropus fagi. — I believe it is generally supposed that the larva of 

 this insect feeds only on beech, oak, and birch, and that it spins up between the 

 growing leaves, and with them falls to the ground in autumn. Last autumn I was 

 digging at the roots of an elm, when I turned up a cocoon, unfortunately cut with 

 the digger. On opening it, I was much surprised to find an unturned larva of 

 S.fagi. The cocoon almost exactly resembled that of P. palpina. — E. Hallett 

 Todd, Aldsworth on the Cotswolds. 



Earhj Lepidopterous captures at Colchester. — I send the following jottings from 

 my note-book for 1868, on the chance of your thinking them worth inserting in the 

 " Entomologist's Monthly Magazine " : — 



January 28th, took P. pilosaria ; SOth, took P. pilosaria ; H. leucophearia on oak 

 trunks. February 12th, saw V. urticce ; 22nd, A. cescularia out ; 25th, T. hyemana, 

 common ; E. scutulana larvae not rare in thistle stems March 10th, bred T. 

 rrmnda; 12th, took A. prodromaria, P. hispidaria, H, leucophearia, and D. fagella. 

 March 14th, took 9 A. prodromaria on oak trunks, just emerged, between two and 

 six p.m. ; have searched in vain for others since ; took also 4 S. illunaria, &c., in 

 the evening; 15th, bred a very curious pale bufi'-coloured variety of N. camelina; 

 16th, took 2 X. lithoriza, and 2 9 A. (ssculana, &c.— W. H. Harwood, St. Peter's, 

 Colchester. 



