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Sharks also have been observed there in the usual quantity, and it is to be 

 hoped that this favourite locality of London entomologists will not be enclosed 

 as is threatened. 



Epping Forest too has been very productive, A. prunaria being very 

 common in the early part of July, and even last evening I observed several 

 males flying about the rides. T. amataria, P. syringaria, A. flexula, M. 

 rubiginata, C.fulvata, M. arcuosa, A. osseata, A. selene, and a host of other 

 species are mentioned as having been taken there, whilst London entomolo- 

 gists just returned from the New Forest report S. sibylla, and A. paphia to 

 be full out. 



Coleopterists too have been very busy as a glance at the records of the 

 Haggerston Entomological Society will prove. Mr. Lewcock's indefatigable 

 work among the genus Donacia is especially to be noted. He has also turned 

 up the larvae of N. typha in two localities near London, whilst working for 

 the aquatic coleoptera. 



London, 20th July. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Coleophora Vibicigeeella Bred. — 1 have much pleasure in recording 

 that up to the present time seven specimens of the above insect have emerged 

 in my cages, and I still hope to breed more, for they appear singly, and at 

 intervals of two or three days. The first specimen emerged on June 27th, 

 one on the 30th, and one more every two or three days since. The larvse, of 

 which I found about thirty cases last autumn, were feeding on Artemisia 

 maritima in the salt marshes on the Essex coast ; it was a long, curved, 

 black case, rather flattish, about 6 lines in length, the upper half of the case 

 thin and narrow, the lower half very much bellied. When full fed, the case 

 resembles very much the small cases of C. conspicuella or the stout cases of 

 C. pyrhulipenetta ; they remain fixed to the main stems of the food plant 

 during the winter, and begin moving about the end of February, and feeding 

 till the end of May, or the first week in June, the imago appearing the end 

 of the month to the middle of J uly. I found a few of these same cases in 

 the autumn of 1883, but forgetting all about them the following spring they 

 of course died through wanting the necessary food. — Geo. Elisha, 122, 

 Sheperdess Walk, City Road, July 14th, 1885. 



Colias Hyale. — It will be of great interest to the readers of the Young 

 Naturalist to hear that a specimen of the above insect has been captured in 

 this neighbourhood. Mr. C. E. Ferry, a young collector captured one on 



