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smaller specimens, the band almost always complete. The partial 
double-broodedness of this species, referred to by Messrs. Robson and 
Finlay {ante^ p. 257 ), in a much more northern locality, is rather additional 
evidence of my statement, as it is well known that many species which 
are distinctly double-brooded in our southern counties, are only partially 
so, or otherwise distinctly single-brooded in more northern localities. 
The Isle of Wight offers a strange illustration of the complete double- 
broodedness of another species, Acidalia emutaria^ which appears to be 
rarely so elsewhere, in the localities I have worked, where the species 
occurs rather commonly, — at Deal, Higham, Strood, Gravesend, etc. 
In the Isle of Wight, Mr. Hodges gets two distinct broods in June and 
August, whilst in the former localities, specimens appear continuously 
from the beginning of July to the first week in August, but there is no 
differentiation of the broods as in the Isle of Wight. I notice that 
Newman in his British Moths^ treats C, silaceata as double-brooded, and 
there appears to be no doubt that the distinct double-broodedness 
noticeable in the south, is reduced to partial double-broodedness or even 
single-broodedness in more northern localities, not only in this, but in 
many other species. — J. W. Tutt. 
The Eupitheci^ in County Sligo. — T)\q Eupithecice I have taken 
this year, are as follows : — The earliest to appear was E. abbreviata 
at sallow blossoms, on March 27 th. In April, I bred E. exiguata from 
larvae collected the previous autumn, and obtained larvae of E. sobrinata 
beaten from juniper whilst looking for Thera simulata larvae. May 
p’-oduced E. venosata, E. nanata, E. pu77iilata^ E. coronata^ E. dodofieata 
(flying at dusk along hawthorn hedges, and, I believe, not previously 
recorded from Ireland), E. vulgata and E. virgaureata. In June, 
E satyrata and its var. callunaria were abundant on moors, and E. 
nanata much more so than in the previous month. E. piufiilata also 
appeared on the moors, earlier ones having been taken on the low lands. 
E. isogra7?i77iata, E. exiguata^ E. submnbraia (occurs on lower slopes of 
the mountains, where scabious is plentiful), E. lariciata^ E. constrictata^ 
E. pulchellata (twelve specimens only, and very worn). In July, E. 
debiliata was abundant in woods where the undergrowth is bilberry. The 
place to search for this species is on the trunks of large holly trees growing 
amongst the bilberry. They are exceedingly difficult to see, being 
almost exactly the colour of the bark, on which they rest ; but a tap with 
a stout stick disturbs them, and they are netted easily. The second 
brood of E. pumilata are smaller and darker than the first, E. tenuiata^ 
the second brood of E. coronata, E. ^ninutata^ and E. rectangulata . In 
August, the only fresh species were, E. absynthiata and E. centaureata^ 
which completed my list. E. isogra77imata in the larval stage was 
exceedingly abundant on a large Cle77iatis vitalba^ growing along a 
high wall at a neighbour’s house. It is the only plant of this species 
which I know of in the whole county, and was evidently planted there 
many years since. Does the larva of this species feed on anything 
else ? I have taken the insect at a considerable distance from the plant. 
— P. H. Russ, Culleenamore, Sligo. October^ 1891 . 
Agrotis trux. — .Among some odds and ends forwarded me by Mr. 
Gregson unplaced in his cabinet, was a mutilated specimen of an 
Agrotis, found in a fruit warehouse at Liverpool. This turns out to be 
A. trux, a species once in our lists, but I think properly struck out as 
an accidental importation. — S. Webb, Dover. 
