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Rosacece and Coniferce alike ? Zelleria hepcmella seeems, like thia latter insect, to 

 affect the yew. — R. C. R. Jordan, M.D., 35, Harborno Road, Birmingham, 

 Sejptemher 12th, 1868. 



AcheronticL Atropos at Margate. — Whilst staying at Margate the end of Angnst 

 last, eight fine pupoD of this insect were brought to me by boys who had found them 

 in potatato fields there. We have been successful in breeding four splendid 

 specimens ; the fifth has no wings, and the remaining three pupoo are dead. They 

 all had very powerful voices, and we were once awoke in the night by their loud 

 " squeaking " the moment they came out. — H. Ramsay Cox, West Dulwich, Srd 

 October, 1868. 



Small specimen of Vanessa Atalanta. — On the 7th September I captured here a 

 dwarf specimen of this species. It is quite perfect in its markings, but is remark- 

 ably small, measm-ing only 1 inch and 8 lines. — James Dallas, Heworth, York, 

 September mh, 1868. 



Qrapta C-album in Devonshire. — I have much pleasure in recording the capture 

 of Grapta C-album at Dartmouth. It is not included in Mr. J. J. Reading's 

 Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Devon and Cornwall ; but that gentleman remarks, 

 at page 23 of Part 1, that it is reputed to have occurred in the district ; so it is 

 very satisfactory to be able to add another butterfly to the fauna of the two counties. 

 The insect in question was taken yesterday by my friend J. W. Peers, Esq., while 

 it was regaling itself on some ivy blossom, in company with many brilliant V. 

 Atalanta. Mr. Peers saw another, but was unable to catch it, as the ivy was 

 growing on the top of an old ruin, and the greater part of it was out of reach. I 

 should have gone to look for more to-day, but it has rained incessantly. — Geevase 

 F. Mathew, H. M. S. " Britannia," Dartmouth, 6th October, 1868. 



Captii/tes of rare Lepidoptera in 1868. — The following is a list of species captured 

 this season by myself and brother. Margate — Argynnis Lathonia (A. G. Boyd), 

 September 7th ; Heliothis armigera (ditto), end of August j Argyrolepia sub-Bauman- 

 niana, A. Dubrisana. Heme Bay — Eupithecia subumbrata (2). Cheshunt — Deile- 

 phila Uneata, August 25th ; Acentropus niveus ; Achroea grisella, by mothing ; Hypo- 

 nomeuta vigintipunctella, bred ; Depressaria caprosolella (15) February 28th to 

 April 15th ; D. pastinacella, at light j Qelechia rhombella, common on apple trees ; 

 Laverna decorella, in thatch ; Phyllocnistis suffusella and saligna ; Coleophora argen- 

 tula, bred; Nepticula centifoliella, bi-ed.— W. C. Boyd, Cheshunt, October Ihth. 



Notes on Mr. Jenner Fust's '^Distribution of British Lepidoptera.'" — On looking 

 through Mr. Jenner Fust's paper on the " Distribution of Lepidoptera in Great 

 Britain and Ireland," in the " Trans. Ent. Soc," 3rd ser., vol. 4, I observed that a 

 few species which occur in Worcestershire are not indicated as occurring in sub- 

 province 14, of which this county forms part. There are also a few I have captured 

 here which are indicated with a mark of doubt, and one which is said to rest on 

 only one authority. These species I give as follow : — 



