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Further notes on Flusia ni. — Having captured a specimen of Plusia festucce o 
the evening of the 13th inst., on flovrers of red valerian, in my garden, I agaii 
just at dusk on the evening of the 14th, was on the watch for others of the sam 
species. There were P. gamma, P. cJirysitis, and another /esiwcce, which I captured 
and the Plusia sent to you through our friend Mr. Hellins was captured that sami 
evening. The flight of festiicce is so different from that of gamma, that by careful!; 
watching I can generally distinguish them on the wing, and I captured the strange^ 
taking it to be a festucce ; for it was then too dark to make out what it really wasJ 
I have since captured and slaughtered some scores of gamma, hoping to mee 
with another stranger, but no other has yet turned up. I 
P. festucoi must this year have been double-brooded, as I had two in my gardel 
in June. — H. D'Orville, Alphington, near Uxeter, August 25th. 
Occurrence of Dicrorampha flavidorsana, Knaggs, near Exeter. — Two years ag 
I met with a specimen of the Bicroratn/pha sent to you by Mr. Hellins, and placei 
it in my cabinet with Petiverella, marked doubtful. 
On the 19th June, this year, I beat from the Artemisia absinthium, man; 
plants of which I have in my garden to attract CucihlUa alsinthii, the same insect 
and finding it to differ so much from alpinana and Petiverella, thought it was, an( 
find it to be, D. Jlavidorsana, Knaggs. j 
As the species was taken by Mr. Meek, in August, and I took mine in June,^ 
should infer it to be double-brooded, and I am on the look-out for others, as I kno^ 
several moths escaped my net in June. — Id. 
Abundance of Sphinx convolvuU near Exeter. — I have not seen so many con 
volvuU since 1859, when I captured 17. Within the last ten days — that is, fr 
the 15th to the present— I have captured 17, good and bad. They are three we 
earlier than in 1859. — Id. 
Sphinx convohuU at Marlborough. — Two specimens have been taken hero ; on 
on the 25th August, on a door in the town, the other about the 31st of August, a 
Tottenham House. — T. A. Pkeston, Marlborough College, September 9th, 1SG8. 
Beilephila lineata at Marlborough. — Two children who were playing in 
Btubble-field, about the 26th of August, found a specimen of D. lineata. The 
took it to a bird-stuffer in the town, who added to the damage done to it by tb 
children by cutting off the tail and stuffing some cotton into the body. Under theg 
circumstances the specimen is not in very good condition. — Ibid. 
Catocala fraxini at Ipswich. — Mr. J. Balding, of 5, Lyme Eoad, Ipswiol 
writes:— Sir, — I thought perhaps it might be interesting to some of your enb 
mological readers to know that a specimen of Catocala fraxini was captured o 
Saturday last at the back of my house. — Extracted from the " Daily News," 26< 
August. 
Occurrence of Catocala fraxini and other rarities in Cheshire.— The season ( 
1868 will be remembered as a remarkably forward one — a season which renders 
calendars, diaries, &c., comparatively useless, since nearly all insects came one bi 
