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CEcetis notata in Yorkshire. — You will bo interested to hear that CEcetis notata 
is common by the River Wharfe, at Tadcaster, Yorkshire. It is associated with 
CE. testacea, which is also abundant. — Francis G. Binnie, 439, St, Vincent Street, 
Glasgow : 28 th June, 1880. 
\_CE. notata, a pretty long-horned Trichopterous insect, was known as British 
only by the example taken by me at Weybridge in 1873, recorded in Vol. xiv, p. 18, 
of this Magazine. — R. McL.] 
[P.S. — On the 17th inst. I found another example near Weybridge, on the north 
bank of the Thames, nearly opposite the mouth of the Wey. — R. McL. : 28 th July, 
1880.] 
Marsh Lepidoptera in Pembrokeshire. — In this moist climate (of Pembrokeshire) 
it would seem reasonable to expect that, along with marsh plants, marsh insects would 
be widely distributed over the country, and this certainly is the case with some few 
species, but there are degrees of dampness even here, and I have lately been much 
interested in working a piece of peculiarly wet marsh, thickly overgrown with Iris 
pseudacorus (locally called “ Liverocks ”), Senecio aquaticus, Myosotis palustris, 
Ranunculus Jlammula, Sparganium, Mentha, Epilobium, &c. Here I found what I 
have looked for iu vain for many years — Bactr a furfur ana — in plenty and with con- 
siderable variation in markings, flying late in the afternoon and until dusk among the 
lowest herbage, and notably among a small slender species of rush which must surely 
be its food-plant. Here also was Platypt ilia isodaciylus, not so plentiful but by no 
means scarce, flying before dusk among Senecio aquaticus, in the stem of which its 
larva feeds, and among which it conceals itself in the day time, and here too are 
occasionally to be found the very pretty little Opostega crepusculella, with Laver na 
propinquella and lacteella, which, with a dubious Coleophora, complete as far as I know 
the list of interesting Micros, but Phibalopteryx lignata occasionally flits by, and 
the flowers attract Plusia festucce and other Noctuce. On one particularly favourable 
evening I met with three Camptogramma Jluviata flying over the flags. All were 
worn and all males, but the hint may lead to future more satisfactory results. — 
Charles G-. Barrett, Pembroke : 13 th July, 1880. 
[P.S. — Platyptilia isodaciylus is again out, but smaller of course, from its rapid 
feeding up in hot weather. If it were desirable, or I could spare the time, it would 
be easy to take hundreds. Along with it is Scopula ferrugalis in plenty. — C. G. B.: 
17 th August, 1880.] 
Food of Scopula lutealis. — I have recently been breeding this species, from larvae 
collected here at the end of May, very freely from the lower leaves of bramble 
bushes, and also from wild strawberry, Plantago lanceolaia, Ranunculus, and several 
other low plants. The larva described in this Magazine some time ago was found on 
dock ; and Hr. F. B. White found it on thistle, so it is evidently quite as general 
a feeder as are prunalis and olivalis. — Geo. T. Porritt, Highroyd House, Hud- 
dersfield : August 5th, 1880. 
Natural History of Crambus cuhnellus. — Although this is a very common 
