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Lepidojptera taken at Questling, near Hastings, in 1867. — April 3rd, Tceniocampa 
mi7iiosa, 3 at sallow. May 4th, Macaria notata, the only specimen I saw this year ; 
8(h, Eupithecia dodoneata, 1 specimen. June Isfc, Cidaria picata ; 9th, Pterophorus 
acanthodactylus ; 12th, Cymatophora or, 1 at sugar ; 13th, Aplecta tincta, 1 at sugar. 
July 1st, Acronycta leporina, 1 at rest ; 2nd, Pempelia palumiella ; 5th, Botys 
lancealis, 2 specimens ; 6th, Pyralis glaucinalis, several j 20th, Macaria alternata, 
1 rather worn, in a wood at Fairlight ; 31st, Demas coryli, ? j Melanthia albicellata, 
1 specimen. August 9th, Acidalia inornata. Also Eupithecia virgaureata, Pterophorus 
microdactylus, and P. tephradactylus, without note of date. — Id., April 8th, 1868. 
Cosmia pyralina in Suffolk. — I bred this from a pupa found at Great Glenham, 
in Suffolk. I mention this insect to con-ect an error in my former record. I should 
have said that some years ago I used to take it at Great Glemham, not uncommonly, 
at light. — Id. 
Note on Phlceodes crenana. — While collecting last autumn in the neighbourhood 
of Richmond Paik, I beat from a birch-bush a Tortrix pupa, which had been in the 
cavity of a curled-up leaf. After a few days a fine specimen of Phlceodes crenana 
emerged from it. I beUeve this insect is generally regarded as a sallow-feeder, and 
it is just possible that the individual in question may have been so, for there were 
sallows growing up mingled with the boughs of the bush from which I beat it. 
The leaf in which it had spun was, however, birch. It is worthy of note, also, that 
early spring is the recorded time of appearance of this insect in the pei'fect state. — 
T. Blackburn, Grassmeade, Wandsworth. 
Note on Stauropns fagi. — I believe it is generally supposed that the larva of 
this insect feetls only on beech, oak, and birch, and that it spins up between the 
growing leaves, and with them falls to the ground in autumn. Last autumn I was 
digging at the roots of an elm, when I turned up a cocoon, unfortunately cut with 
the digger. On opening it, I was much surprised to find an unturned larva of 
S.fagi. The cocoon almost exactly resembled that of P. jyalpina. — E. Hallett 
Todd, Aldsworth on the Cotswolds. 
Earhj Lepidopterous captures at Colchester.— I send the following jottings from 
my note-book for 1868, on the chance of your thinking them worth inserting in the 
" Entomologist's Monthly Magazine " : — 
January 28th, took P. pilosaria ; 30th, took P. pilosaria ; H. leiccophearia on oak 
trunks. February 12th, saw V. urticce ; 22nd, A. cesculiwia out ; 25th, T. hyemana, 
common ; E. scutula7ia larvae not rare in thistle stems March 10th, bred T. 
munda; 12th, took A. prodromaria, P. hispidaria, H. leucophearia, and D. fagella. 
March 14th, took 9 A. prodromaria on oak trunks, just emerged, between two and 
six p.m. ; have searched in vain for others since ; took also 4 S. illunaria, &c., in 
the evening ; 15th, bred a very curious pale buff-coloured variety of N. camelina ; 
16th, took 2 X. lithonza, and 2 ? 1. cEscularia, &c.— W. H. Harwood, St. Peter's, 
Colchester. 
