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bed in the dusk of the evening. I Bhonld probably not have paid much attention 
to it, taking it to be only P. forficalis, which was extremely plentiful that evening, 
if I had not been struck with its peculiar flight, hovering backwards and forwards 
more like the common house-fly than anything else I know."— H. T. Stainton, 
Mountsfield, November, 1867. 
Micro-lepidoptem bred or captured at Darlington.— Dnring the past season I 
have bred the following ■.—Qelechia rhombella, Q. Sangiella, Nepticula splendidissima, 
N. ulmivora, Lithocolletis insignitella, and Elachista tmniatella. I have also captured 
Qelechia Sircomella, O. intaminatella, and Coleophora melilotella. — John Sang, 
Dai'lington, November bth, 1867. 
Note on Lepidopterous inquilines. — In February last, my friend Mr. H. W. Kidd, 
of Godalming, sent me a living specimen of Heusimene fimhriana which he had bred, 
from among a lot of small specimens of the marble gall of the oak (gall of Cynips 
lignicola). I immediately went over and examined his galls, in hopes of finding 
traces of either the larva or pupa, but failed to do so. I then collected great 
numbers of similar galls, and also of the artichoke galls of the oak (galls of Cynips 
fecundatrix), in hopes of breeding more, but failed to obtain anything from them, 
except a number of young larvee of one of the green tree-grasshoppers, probably 
Meconema varia, the eggs of which must have been laid among the bracts of the 
artichoke galls. Mr. Kidd was more fortunate, for in May he bred Carpoca^sa 
Juliana from artichoke galls, but, as this seems to be an acorn-feeder, it must have 
merely chosen the gall to spin up in. 
In May I examined the oak-apples (galls of Teras terminalis), which were very 
abundant this year, and found in many of them the larva of a ToHrix burrowing 
under the skin, and feeding on the soft woolly substance inside. I also found 
similar larvffi hollowing out the inside of the currant galls of the oak catkin (galls 
of Cynips Q. pcdunculi). These I fed upon the galls, and bred from them Pcedisca 
corticana. 
Feeding on one oak-apple I found a larva of Thecla querciis, and this arrived 
at maturity upon the same food, but produced a very small imago. 
These cases of casual inquilines in galls seem interesting, and tend to prove 
that the substance of the galls is of a similar nature to that of the leaves.— Chas. G. 
Barrett, Haslemere, lUh November, 1867. 
A white-hclted variety of Sesia culicifonnis.— Whilst out collecting at Tilgate, 
last June, T was fortunate enough to capture a S example of S. culiciformis with 
a white belt ; it was in copuU, with a red-belted ? . The species has been rather 
common this season.— E. G. Meek, la. Paradise Kow, Old Ford, E. 
*^* I am unaware if this vai-iety have previously been detected. Dr. Staudinger 
gives a var. ^^ abdominis segmentum 4, totum ochraceum (flavum)." It is singularly 
interesting that this curiosity should have been taken in copuU with the typical 
form.— II. G. K. 
Notes on Stcrrha sacraria.—l regret to say that I have not succeeded at all 
satisfactorily in my attempt at rearing Sterrha sacraria ; and I am the more soiry, 
