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6. Odontura punctatissima. Ec. 
(Standish and Dale). This was 
common here some years ago and 
disappeared for several years, but 
has turned up again in tolerable 
plenty. 
7. Meconema varia. Fab. This and 
the last are found on trees and 
bushes. Not Bare. 
8. Xiphidion fuscum. Fab. This 
has been erroneously given as 
British. I have not seen a British 
specimen. It has been from a mis - 
take in nomenclature. This may be 
known by its complete second wings. 
9. X. dorsalis. Latr. This was con- 
founded with the last. Found in 
Marshy places near Christchurch, 
Eants ; Whittlesea Mere ; Thorne 
Moor, Yorkshire, and at other 
places. 
10. lhamnotrigon cinereus. Linn, 
( Clypeata . Bam.') In plenty here, 
Portland, and at other places. 
11. T. Irachyptera. Linn. In plenty 
on Parley Heath, at New Forest, 
Charmouth, etc. In heaths. — Thorn 
Moor, Yorkshire, etc. 
12. T. brevipennis. Charp. Very rare. 
Only a pair in the British Museum. 
Taken at Coombe Wood? or in 
Devon, by the late Dr. Leach. 
13. T. grisea. Fabr. Common in 
Portland, and also at Barton Cliff, 
Hants, — always on the sea coast. 
14. Decticus verrucivorus. Linn. 
This I took a single specimen of, in 
the New Forest July 3rd. 1844. 
The late Professor Henslow once 
found it in plenty on Chatham Hill 
near Rochester. I have a pair of 
the variety ( Bingleyi ) taken near 
Christchurch, Hants. 
15. Pachytylus (. Locusta ) migratorius. 
Linn. I had one brought in alive, 
taken in this Parish (20 miles from 
the Sea-Coast.) 
16. P. flavipes. Gmel. Sad confus- 
ion made in the British Museum 
Catalogue in nomenclature copied 
from a foreign author. Once in 
plenty at Whittlesea Mere, on 
marshy fields by Parley Heath etc, 
17. P. tartarica. Admitted in the 
British Museum list, but no au- 
thority is given. 
I have a larger species allied to P. 
migratorius, but the hind wings are 
pinkish and the spots on the fore 
wings large. This is from Madeira, 
whither, probably, it came from 
Africa. J. C. Dale, Gian. TFootton, 
Sherborne, Dorset. 
Lepibopteba. 
Mites. What the best preventive 
against the attacks of mites may be, 
I will not undertake to say, — care in 
keeping the cabinet dry, and in seeing 
that specimens are throughly dried 
before they are removed from the set- 
tingboards will, no doubt, do great 
things * but I may, perhaps, be al- 
lowed to state my experience with 
regard to a couple of remedies, which 
in the end have proved greater pests 
than the mites themselves. 
Some months since I took a fancy 
to use cajeput oil, — pouring a few 
drops of it on a bit of sponge placed 
in each drawer of my cabinet, and, 
for a time, it seemed to answer very 
