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shillings and sixpence per day, per man. The charges at this hotel 

 are moderate and the accommodation everything you can wish for, 

 food and drink of the best quality, and cleanliness in everything. 



I hope next year to spend a much longer time in this lovely locality, 

 and again to patronize the Torcross Hotel. — G. C. Bignell, Stone- 

 house, Plymouth, 12th June, 1889. 



Lepidoptera of Sutherlandshire. — I should be very glad if any 

 one could give me a note of any species known to occur in this county 

 and the localities. I hope to spend a fortnight there this season, from 

 Thurso right round about Trague and Strathreover. I can find 

 nothing published about the lepidoptera of Sutherlandshire, and any 

 hint would be a great help to me. — John Mackay, Glasgow. 



Acronycta MYRiCE. — Why is this insect always associated with 

 Myrica gale ? I have had hundreds of the larvae, and never yet found 

 one on the sweet gale. It will not eat it even unless the larva are 

 really starving. Most of our best districts are highly cultivated dis- 

 tricts, where Acronycta myrica is found contentedly feeding upon the 

 low plants and weeds, growing along the edges of fields, and by dyke 

 sides, stone fences — in the interstices of which it spins up. It is also 

 very easily reared upon low plants such as thistle, sorrel, dock, plain- 

 tain, &c, but I find they will feed up readily upon birch, seeming to 

 prefer it to other food. — W. Reid, Pitcaple. 



N. neurica var. Hessii.— Var. Hessii of South's list, according to 

 Guenee, is synonymous with Dissoluta, Treitschke. I believe the 

 gradual extinction of the particular form in England to be due princi- 

 pally to drainage and consequent alteration of character and climate. 

 The form has, I believe, become rare on the Continent, probably from 

 the same reason. All the specimens in my series are males. — T. W. 

 Tutt, Westcombe Park, London. 



Amphydasis betularia var. Doubledayaria. — On May 16th I 

 bred a black specimen of Amphydasis betularia, from a pupa taken at 

 the roots of an oak tree. Last year I found a very worn specimen in 

 a spider's web, and about four years ago I bred a cripple of the same 

 kind. Perhaps some of the readers of the Y.N. could tell me whether 

 this is a northern variety or not ? — D. H. Stewart, Oxford. 



Tephrosia crepuscularia. — In the last issue of the FJV., I noticed 

 that a correspondent called attention to the late appearance of this 

 moth. While collecting in Epping Forest on June 6th, I observed 

 two specimens on the trunk of a tree, one in very fine condition, the 

 other rather worn. — F. Milton, 164, Stamford Hill, London, N. 

 (Were these not bmndularia ? — J.E.R.) 



