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the moth emerged T felt positive that it was a fiue atldition to our lists. Mr. 
Doublcday, to whom I have sent the specimen, informs me that it is Folia nigro- 
cincta. I shall feel much obliged if you will make a note of it in the Magazine for 
next month. — N. Gkekning, Warrington, Septemier 12th. 
Occurrence of a Fumea {F. crassiorella, Bruand) new to Britain. — 1 have bred 
several specimens of a Fumea this year which prove to be Fumea crasRiorella, 
Bruand. The c? s are larger than either F. nitidella or rohoricolella, to which group 
they belong. The ? is also larger and more obese. I have had males in my 
cabinet for some time, but it was only this year, by breeding the female, that I 
was enabled to make out the species ; there are good figures in Bruand's mono- 
graph, tig. 68 a <?, b ?, plate 2.— Fred. Bond, 21, Adelaide Road, N.W., 11th 
Septemher, 1867. 
Note on Acidalia interjectaria. — This species occurs tolerably abundantly at 
Folkestone. M. Guenee informs me that in A. osseata the costa is always " rouge," 
which I take it is about the colour of a penny postage-stamp, or, at the least, of 
burnt clay. I have certainly never met with British examples of so-called osseata 
possessing this peculiarity. My friend, Mr. Bond, has a series of specimens taken 
years ago in Cambridgeshire which present certain differences from the Folkestone 
individuals, and also from types of A. interjectaria kindly sent to me by Mr. Brown, 
of Cambridge, but, though they might be described as fuscous, or even fawn- 
coloured on the costa, one could not very well call them "rouge." No doubt the 
extremes of these two forms are distinct enough, but it is a confessedly difl&cult 
job to draw the line between them ; for M. Guouee, in his great work, endoi'ses M. 
Delaharpe's opinion that one begins where the other leaves oif. — H. G. Knaggs, 
Kentish Town, Septemher 0th. 
*^* Since writing the above I have received, in answer to a query, the 
following reply from M. Guenee * * ''Quant d V osseata la cote est toujours rouge de 
la coleur d peu-pres de vos timbres d'un 'penny'" * * * H. G. K. 
Capture ofSterrha sacraria, at Highgate. — On the 20th inst. I had the good fortune 
to meet with an example of this species on a gas-lamp at Highgate. The specimen 
is a male, and differs slightly from the ordinary form in the transverse streak being 
brown instead of pink or crimson ; and the remainder of the fore-wing is of a 
uniform straw-yellow, without the least indication of costal strij le, as mentioned by 
Mr. Ingram in the Magazine, Vol. ii., p. 13i. When at rest on the lamp, my cap- 
ture had the wings deflexed, after the manner of Ptonea /or/Jcafis. — H. J. S. Pryek, 
10, Holly ViUage, Highgate, N.W., 29th August, 1867. 
Sterrha sacraria at Newark. — " On the 19th August, at eleven p.m., whilst sitting 
reading at the open window of my dining-room, and (must I confess it) sipping 
hot whisky-toddy, the well-known indication of a "flop" in the gas above the 
table caused me to investigate results. For some time I could discover nothing, 
until, at length, a fluttci* in the sugar-basin revealed — Sterrha sacraria { ?). 
