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THE BRITISH NATURALIST. 



[August 



recorded the first British specimen in September last. This beautiful 

 moth had, until then, been considered to be altogether absent from 

 North Western Europe, but the occurrence of a specimen this year in a 

 locality so far inland as the Guildford district, seems to point to the 

 fact that it has really established itself in England. It is a large 

 species, expanding if inches, the forewings of a golden brown colour, 

 with whitish violet shading on the hind margins, apices having a de- 

 cidedly metallic lustre ; the orbicular stigma is strongly bordered with 

 silver, and beneath it is a curved line of the same. It is figured in the 

 " Entomologist " for last September. 



My specimen will be placed in the collection of my friend Mr. 

 Bernard Crocker, of Plymouth. — Henry C. Lang, M.D., F.L.S., 

 Albury, Guildford, Surrey. 



(The recurrence of this pretty species induces us to hope that it has 

 succeeded in establishing itself in Britain. It will be a grand addition 

 to our fauna should it do so. Ed. B.N.) 



DiANTH^ciA Barrettii AND Capsophila. — I am glad to say I am 

 busy with Barrettii and have taken seven up to date. They are still 

 fine and I do not doubt I shall get more yet. Capsophila are very fine 

 this season, but neither of these species come at all freely to the Silene 

 this year, and I have had to resort to other methods of capture. — 

 E. R. CuRZON. 19th June, 1891. 



Phigalia pilosaria. — I bred a quantity of P. pilosaria from ova this 

 spring. That from the first female hatched within a week of being 

 deposited. That from the other females was examined daily for six 

 or seven weeks, but showed no sign of hatching, and I concluded they 

 were dead, but on looking again some time after, I found they had 

 hatched, and of course were all dead. Is it not strange that what one 

 female deposited should hatch in six or seven days and the remainder 

 not in so many weeks. — W. Brooks, Sheffield. 



Cleora viduaria at Lyndhurst. — I was at Lyndhurst for the 

 last fortnight in June and had a very good time of it, taking over 80 

 species. The best perhaps was Cleora vidtiaria, but they were all 

 welcome. — L. S. Brady, Sunderland. 17th July, 1891. 



