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unlike, and perhaps further breeding may sometimes upset this. — Anon, in * The 

 Intelligencer.^ [The name known to me. — E. Newman']. 



Habits of Camptogramma gemmaria. — I quite agree with Mr. Gregson that C. gem- 

 maria is a swamp insect: I have taken a fine series this season (the female is the 

 C. gemmaria and the male the C. fluviata of Guenee's arrangement) : it occurs at the 

 Boiling Well, near Ashley Hill, and also in some meadows near here ; in both instances 

 in low swampy ground. Each of the females I took kindly supplied me with eggs, but 

 unfortunately none of them have proved fertile, so that my expectation of being able 

 to rear it from the egg has come to an end, at least for the present. — G. Harding, jun. ; 

 Stapleton, Bristol, August 27, 1858. — ' Intelligencer,^ 



Camptogramma gemmaria and C. fluviata, — I have lately taken a fine series, the 

 female being C. gemmaria, the male C. fluviata of Guenee's arrangement. I have no 

 doubt that these insects constitute but one species, having taken two male specimens 

 of the latter hovering over a female of the former: all the specimens I possess have 

 occurred in low marshy places ; one I took from off a willow. — Henry Bolt ; \by Beau- 

 mont Place, Stapleton Road, Bristol, September 14, 1858. 



[I may add to these interesting communications that in the ' Synonymic List of 

 British Lepidoptera,' by Messrs. Guenee and Doubleday, these insects stand as a 

 single species: the list will be advertised for publication in a few days. — Edward 

 Newman'] . 



Occurrence of a Peronea new to Science at Liverpool, — I am now taking the second 

 brood of a pretty, variable, yet distinct, little Peronea, the P. potentillana of Cooke ; they 

 feed exclusively upon the leaves of the strawberry, preferring the white-fruited varieties. 

 On the 8th of September they were in profusion flying over the strawberry-beds ; I ran 

 for my net, leaving Mr. Almond trying to box a few ; on my return the pic nic was 

 over, and I only secured a few " choice spirits" who did not intend to go home till 

 " daylight did appear." On the 9th instant, which was cold and windy, I saw two ; 

 I took one and left the other to breed ; on the lOih five were seen, three of them in bad 

 condition; 11th a close evening, I was closely engaged in looking after my little 

 favourites, everybody else spying for the comet, which everybody said was about 10 

 degrees high in the north-west corner of the sky, but which I did not see, for just then 

 up got my " flee," and I secured about a dozen good ones, when the revels were over, 

 and not another could be seen, where one minute before hundreds were on the wing ! — 

 C. S, Gregson; Fletcher Grove, Stanley Liverpool, September 12, 1858. — From the 

 * Intelligencer.^ 



Carabidce in the Isle of Sheppey. — The result of recent excursions in this district 

 prompts me to recommend it as a productive field to coleopterists generally and the 

 student of the Geodephaga in particular. The main object of my first visit was the 

 rare Stenolophus elegans, whose head quarters in the neighbourhood of Sheerness are 

 known to an elect few. On reaching the well-known spot, which has hitherto supplied 

 all collections, " Hope sighing fled," — the place was completely submerged, and not 

 a specimen could be won from the adjacent soil. Much of the neighbouring marsh 

 land had been newly broken up by the plough, and the clods, with the surface-grass 

 attached, had lain sufiicient time to aftbrd convenient shelter for Coleoptera, the pro- 

 fusion of which both surprised and interested me. In such situations I took pretty 

 freely, together with others of lesser note, the large Hister 4-maculatLis and Zabrus 

 piger. Early in the present month I made a second visit, and after considerable effort 

 was rewarded by the capture of eight specimens of S. elegans, which I took by the road- 



