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of Psyche fusca* on birch and bramble. 
Whilst beating the oaks last week I was 
fortunate enough to knock out six Lbna- 
cocles testuclo ; only two of them are 
good : it is a very active insect, and bat- 
ters itself about terribly: I saw two more, 
but unfortunately lost them. Within the 
last three weeks I have bred seven or 
eight Setina irrorella from larvae which I 
found in May, feeding upon ground 
lichens, on the beach near Southsea. 
My larvae of N. trepida, reared from eggs 
laid by the female which I took in 
Hampshire, are now nearly full-grown, 
and will, I hope, spin up in the course of 
a few days. — H. Hakpuk Crewe, 
Shooter’s Hill , Kent ; July 7, 1856. 
Captures of Lepidoptera at Pembury, 
Kent. — I have taken the following spe- 
cies during the last week in June and 
the first in July, viz., Crambus uligino- 
sellus, Botys lancealis, and Pionea stra- 
menlalis, flying together on a boggy side 
of a hill known as the Miller’s Wood ; 
the two latter occurred more commonly 
in the lowest ground, and the first in an 
open space where the asphodel and sun- 
dew grew in great profusion amongst the 
sedges and rushes ; the females, when 
on the wing, looked whiter than Pas- 
cucllus, their under wings being much 
purer in colour; the males appeared 
darker, and the broad silvery basal streak 
was nearly divided into two by a suffused 
brown line. Macaria notala was not 
rare, but one out of every three taken 
had an under wing entirely absent, and 
one specimen flew tolerably well with 
both the under wings abortive. Apatela 
leporina occured on birch stems. Eu- 
pcecilia ambiguana flying about birch 
bushes in the evening. Ceropacha fluc- 
tuosa was beaten from birches during the 
day. Epione adversaria was scarce and 
much worn. Zcrene albicillaria occurred 
sparingly on the wing in the evening. 
Bucculatrix franyulella was common on 
* Could Mr. Crewe oblige us with some? 
the Rhamnus frangula. — J. Jennlr 
Weir, 20, Maismore Square, Old Kent 
Road ; July 2, 1 856. 
Abraxas Ulmaria. — In reply to Mr. 
Buxton’s question at p. 1 15, this insect is 
plentiful where Wych elm grows in seve- 
ral parts of Wales: I saw it at Llaufer- 
ras last week. Many persons are under 
the erroneous impression that this is a 
scarce insect. — C. S. Gkegson; July 
14, 1856. 
Plilceodes yeminana , Steph. (Lep.). — • 
I am now breeding this species from 
larva taken at Delamere Forest on Vuc- 
cinium Myrtellus. — Ibid. 
Pcecilochroma stabilana , Steph. (Lep.). 
• — This very variable species I am now 
breeding from the Myrica Gale. — Ibid. 
Attractiveness of Glyceria fluitans to 
Moths. — That this grass, when in bloom, 
was very palatable to Nocture was known 
to me long ago : and the same fact was 
also discovered by Messrs. Bedell and 
Douglas in 1845; but I had certainly no 
conception till the other evening of the 
extent to which the flowers of the Glyce- 
ria are slic/cy. If you draw your hand 
several times across a batch of this grass 
at this season of the year you will find 
that your fingers are about as sticky as if 
you had dipped them in a solution of 
sugar. I do not know that the Glyceria 
proves attractive to rarities, though many 
of the commoner species will swarm at 
it; but it may be serviceable to some in- 
cipients to know that the swampy edges 
of ditches and ponds will furnish them 
with plants ready sugared. — II. T. 
Stainton ; July 14, 1856. 
Larva of Elachista Pfeifferella (Lep.). 
— Last week I received some of these 
from Professor Frey, and at once dis- 
covered that l had been collecting it the 
previous week as Treitschkiella : like 
that species it blotches the leaves of the 
dogwood, but as might be imagined, 
larva, blotch, and case, of Pfeifferella, 
are all larger than those of Tretts- 
chkuila ; but the head of the larva of 
