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the last ten days, about forty examples having been captured. It particularly 
affects a little window plentifully festooned with coal-dust-covered cobwebs. I 
have been not a little interested by the contempt the insect appears to have for 
the spiders, and by the manner in which it flies into and among the webs without 
becoming entangled. These webs are full of the remains of ordinary house Tinea;, &c., 
but only once did I observe there a fragment of quadripuncta, and very frequently 
the latter seemed to prefer the webs as a convenient resting-place ; yet there is no 
very evident structural reason why it should not meet the same fate as its less 
fortunate companions. The yet unknown larva probably feeds on some dry 
vegetable matter, but, without some guide to its habits, it is next to impossible to 
detect it among the heterogeneous lumber that accumulates in these domestic 
store-houses. — R. McLachlan, 1, Park Road Terrace, Forest Hill, Srd Awjust, 1867. 
AcidaUa interjedaria at Plumstead. — At the beginning of July I found this 
species rather commonly in Plumstead Marshes, but not distinguishing them at the 
time from osseata, regret to say I took but few. I am indebted to the kindness 
of Mr. Thomas Brown, of Cambridge, for types of this insect, and also for the 
identification of my own captures. — Howard Vaughan, Kentish Town, 14t/i, 
August, 1867. 
Variety of Acontia luctuosa. — Early in June I captured a few Acontia luctuosa 
near Gravesend, and, on setting my captures, discovered that it had been my good 
fortune to have taken amongst them a rather striking vai-iety. This specimen 
differs from the type in that the white blotch on the upper wing is remarkably 
small, somewhat ti'ifoliate, and entirely detached fi'oni the costa ; and in the hind- 
wings the ordinary transverse fascia can best be described as resembling the bowl 
of a tobacco-pipe vsdth a very short stem, and is entirely separate from the hind 
margin. — Id. 
Additions to List of Irish Lepidoptera. — 
LiTHOSiA COMPLANA — Bred fi'Om larvaa taken in June, feeding on lichen, near 
high -water mark at Howth. 
DiANTHCECiA ciESiA— Bred by my friend Warren Wright, of Dublin, from larvaa taken 
on the South Coast of Ireland, feeding on Silene maritima. The specimen 
which he has kindly sent to me for examination does not differ from those 
taken in the Isle of Man. — Edwin Birchall, Bradford, Aiigust I'ith, 1867. 
Heliothis peltigera and Sterrha sacraria in South Wales. — On July 22ud I took 
H. peltigera, wliich was disturbed from dwarf willow near the sandhills on Port 
Talbot Moors, in this county (Glamorganshire). 
On August 9th Sterrha sacraria came to light near my house, in the Vale of 
Neath. This specimen is in very fine condition, and answers to the variety 
described by Mr. Ingram in No. 18 of the Magazine, with the red costal stripe. 
As both these species are scarce, the record of their occurrence in a new locality 
may be interesting. 
