240 [November, 
despite curious advice offered ua to seek this mountain-rill-loving species in the 
Black Forest. On the extreme summits of mountains P. trepidaria was taken 
occasionally, 0. furcatellus not uncommonly, and two specimens of the rare Etidorea 
aVpina. Here, also, S. alternama occurred. 
A long and tedious expedition to Loch Ericht yielded nothing on the way, but 
ended in the capture of P. monticolana commonly on rough grassy slopes above the 
lake, and a view which certainly may vie in surpassing grandeur with any in 
Scotland. 
The leading peculiarity of the season in the north has certainly been its late- 
ness. Many species were more than a month behind time — as instances of which 
it may be stated that F. hrunneata was not well out before 5th August, and that 
E. Cassiope occurred in good condition on Ben Lawers as late as 15th August. 
Many larvae were very plentiful at Rannoch this year ; but for the difficulty 
of conveying them home, this mode of collecting would prove very profitable. C. 
furcula was abundant, bub only just out of the egg ; N. drornedarius was found both 
young and full-grown ; C. reclusa was common on sallows ; and D. fascelina occurred 
frequently on heath, with numbers of F. atomaria. Careful work would, no doubt, 
have produced other larvaa. — T. & J. B. Blackburn, Grassmeade, Southfields, 
Wandsworth, S.W. 
Va/nessa Atalanta at light. — Vanessa, Atalanta came to light at half-past ten 
the other night. I put up a gas-light at a closed window, because I had caught 
Eupithecia alhipunctata at it, and after about an hour V. Atalanta made his 
appearance ; I opened the window, and he soon came in, and I caught him. — 
R. C. R. Jordan, M.D., 35, Harborne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham. 
Emmclesia albulata partially douhle-hrooded. — I captured a fresh and perfect 
specimen of this moth on 23rd of last August, showing that the species may be 
partially double-brooded ; when I reared it in confinement the larvse spun up early 
in July, but no moths appeared until the beginning of June in the nest year. — 
J. Hellins, October 9th, 1867. 
Heliothis armigera at ivy-hlomn. — On Tuesday (Oct. 16th) I took two males of 
this species ; one in very fine, the other in rather worn, condition : I hope to secure 
more.— T. Tekky, Babbicombe, October 18th, 1867. 
Opostega reUq^oella, a new British species. — Three specimens of this insect 
(which is closely allied to 0. salaciella) have been captured by the Hon. Thomas 
de Grey, M.P., near Thetford. One was taken last year in an open grass plot on 
the outskirts of a wood ; another was caught exactly in the same spot about the 
middle of June this year (but unfortunately escaped) ; the third specimen, which 
I have seen, was beaten early in August from mixed growth in a grassy ride in the 
woods, about 150 yards from the spot where the other two were taken. — H. T. 
Stainton, October 22nd, 1867. 
6^ii^ral Ittformation. 
The proposed Catahgue of British Insects.— The Rev. T. A. Marshall (Milford, 
S. Wales) who has undertaken the Froctotrupidw, and others of the obscure groups 
