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neighbourhood — he agrees with Mr. Greene to put off the evil day until next year, 

 when the question might have been so easily settled now without this note from me. 

 As to Mr. Greene's bilious letter (Zool. 6735), I who have spent many years of my 

 life in successfully separating the larva? of the Tiueina can well afford to live down 

 the " clap-trap" of any writer who confessedly cannot separate the larvae of two of our 

 finest Orthosidae (see Zool. 6734), and only notice his communication to say that I 

 never asserted that the larva of E. assimilata was one inch and a half long (see Zool. 

 6695), and regret he should have led the readers of the ' Zoologist' to think T did 

 say so.— C. S. Gregsnn; Spring Hill, Fletcher Grove, Stanley, October 17, 1859. 



The Larva of Eupithecia assimilata. — Injustice to Mr. Gregson, I think it right 

 to state that larvae have been sent to me (of the above insect) possessing dorsal 

 markings such as he describes, and that I have also taken a few in this neighbourhood. 

 In justice to myself I must add that, up to the time at which I sent my remarks to 

 the * Zoologist,' 1 had neither seen nor heard of such a variety. — J. Greene ; Cubley 

 Rectory, Doveridge, Derby, November 10, 1859. 



Occurrence of Heliothis armigera at Sugar, Ivy, $-c. — My entomological friends 

 have been unusually successful in taking this rarity during the past autumn. 

 Mr. Bond took three one evening; Dr. Allchin two; and Mr. Wright one, — this last 

 in the old locality for Phlogophora empyrea. In the ' Intelligencer,' x\Ir. W. D. Crotch 

 records the capture of two specimens at Weston-super-Mare ; Mr. Tompkins one near 

 Worthing; Mr. Thorncroft five near Brighton; and Mr. Stewart two near Torquay: 

 the dates are from the 1st to the 25th of October. — Edward Newman. 



Occurrence of Phycis contubernella in Dorsetshire. — On examining lately some 

 Micro-Lepidoptera, taken during the past summer by the Rev. G. C. Green, of Ham- 

 worthy, one among them, a " knot-horn," struck me as a novelty ; I accordingly sub- 

 mitted it to Mr. Bond's inspection, and he and I have come to the conclusion that 

 it is identical with Phycis contubernella of Hiibner, and not hitherto recorded as 

 British. It is as large as Phycis Roborella, handsomer and more distinctly marked, 

 but bears no resemblance to it or any other British species of the genus. Its natural 

 position in the British list would appear to be next after P. ornatella. — O. Pickard- 

 Cambridge ; Southport, Lancashire, October 24, 1859. 



Occurrence of Diachromus germanus at Hastings. — Mr. Wilson Saunders has 

 obtained a specimen of this somewhat doubtful native at Hastings: the locality does 

 not seem quite satisfactory, but it is sufficiently so to induce our ardent collectors to 

 search thoroughly : may their efforts be successful. Dr. Power has opened up to us a 

 mine of Drypta emarginata, Polystichus fasciolatus and Lebia crux-minor, and by his 

 unexampled liberality has made these insects comparatively common in our collections. 

 — Edward Newman. 



Capture of Polystichus fasciolatus in Sussex. — About a fortnight since Mr. Wilson 

 Saunders was kind enough to describe to me the locality in which he had met with 

 Polystichus fasciolatus, an insect which many years ago was once taken in considerable 

 quantity by Mr. Hewitson, at Southwold, but of which, since that time, only isolated 

 specimens have occurred, and that very rarely. I accordingly took a trip by an excur- 

 sion train to the neighbourhood he mentioned, and was fortunate enough to secure 

 twenty-three specimens. The locality is apparently a very circumscribed one. It was 

 lurking under stones and bricks, and seems to me to be fond of insinuating itself 

 between the stones and earth in dryish places. I have kept some of them alive, and 

 they are still flourishing in a tumbler with a piece of turf, &c, in it: its habits 



