X32 I November, 
doggedly beating the hedge, a small whitish moth rising from the grass caught my 
eye. I netted him, and gazed in admiration * * * Sterrha sacraria / (a S) ', and 
after working in vain for more, I went home contented. 
Since my return from Devonshire I have taken Simaethis paricma in my garden, 
frequenting apple, nettle, and yew. 
T have visited Coombe Wood and Wimbledon Common several times with my 
friends the Messrs. Blackburn, at first with the intention of capturing several 
PeronecB, but when we found that the genus is apparently extinct in those localities, 
we tm-ned to larvae. By sweeping heath on the common, we obtained Ana/rta 
myrtilli Sind Eupithecia minutata ; but White Poplar appears to be the best food- 
plant now ; on it we found larvee of Clostera cuHula and Notodonta ziczac (afflicted 
with ichneumons). On one occasion half a larva of Acronycta megacephala fell a 
victim to the beating-stick. The handsome larva of Hadena pisi occurred on the 
Common, and nearer home that oi Hadena chenopodii and Coleophora aTvnulatella (?). 
We have now in pupa several species of Eupithecia, among which is probably E. 
albipunctata. — G. B. Longstaff, Southfields, Wandsworth, S.W. 
Occurrence of Polia nigrocincta in Cornivall. — It is interesting to learn that 
Mr. Greening is doubly the discoverer of P. nigrocincta. Placed at the head of a 
series of P. flavocincta was what I considered a strange var. of that species ; and 
some twelve months ago, while Mr. Greening was examining my collection, I drew 
his attention to it. He unhesitatingly averred that it was not flavocincta, but 
altogether new to our lists. By himself rearing a <J from the larva, it has been 
his singular felicity to corroborate his own penetration. 
The example in my possession (a ? ) came direct from the collection of the 
late Mr. George Fisher, and was taken during daylight, by Mrs. Fisher, from off 
the window of a lighthouse, near Padstow, in Cornwall, about the middle of 
August, 1862. — Ed. Hopley, 14, South Bank, Kegent's Park. 
Early appearance of Dianthcecia capsophila. — On the 15th of August I bred an 
imago of this species from a larva found (with others) in the Isle of Man in June 
last. — Chas. Campbell, Dark Lane Farm, Chorlton, near Manchester, I7t]b 
September, 1867. 
Acidalia circellata bred. — This insect is now making its appearance in my 
breeding-cage. The ova were hatched about the 20th July, and the larvae were 
fed upon knot-grass {Polygonum avicidare). — Id. 
Eupithecia distinctata in the Isle of Man. — I captured this species in fine con- 
dition in the Isle of Man, in June last. — Id. 
Colias Eyale at Margate. — My parents captured two specimens of this insect 
in a clover-field at Margate during August last ; also one of C. Edusa, var. Helice. 
I have myself lately met with several specimens of the latter at Folkestone and 
Sandgate. C. Edusa was in great profusion at both places. One day I saw at least 
two hundred in less than an hour. — H. Ramsay Cox, 1, Medina Villas, Knight's 
Hill, Lower Norwood, 30t/i September, 1867. 
