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as I am not able fully to account for the canses of my failure. I took in all six 
perfect insects in August — two females and four males, and I obtained twenty-six 
ova. Eight of these went to the Kev. J. HelUns, one of the larvae disappeared 
when very young, and the other seventeen progressed very satisfactorily until they 
were full-fed : up to this time they looked perfectly well and healthy. Two of 
them spun up and changed to fine healthy-looking pnpss, in which state they now 
are ; about eight more spim up, and died in the web ; and the others died, without 
any apparent reason, without spinning. 
I rather fear the food {Polygonum aviculare) which I gave them on Friday, 
October 4th, was touched with frost, as we had a very sharp frost on the nights of 
the 3rd and 4th ; but whether that can have been enough to kill them I hardly 
know. The plants did not then exhibit any symptoms of being frost-bitten, or, 
indeed, at all differ outwardly from the food we were supplying regularly ; but the 
frost then was undoubtedly sharp, and many plants felt it. 
My gardener, who has charge of my larvae when I am from home, is a very 
careful hand, and an excellent practical entomologist. — John T. D. Llewelyn, 
Ynisygerwn, Neath, October 20th, 1867. 
Camptogramma fluviata near Folkestone. — My wife captured a specimen of this 
insect, on palings at Sandgate, last September. — H. Eamsay Cox, Lower Norwood, 
l&th October, 1867. 
Correction of an error. — The locality for the Tortrix {Coccyx vernana) which 
Dr. Knaggs described in the last number of the Magazine should have been 
" Darenth Wood," and not " West Wickham."— B. G. Meek. 
*!/* I regret that, through " trusting to memory," I have made this bltmder. 
— H. G. K. 
Occurrence of Agrotis saucia in Scotland. — Of this species, which I believe is 
hitherto unrecorded for Scotland, I took one specimen at sugar, on October 6th, 
at Rannoch. 
On returning to Perth, I found that my friend, Mr. J. Stewart, had taken two 
specimens at Perth, in the middle of the month, also at sugar. 
Mr. Stewart has also bred (lie believes from sallow) a specimen of Oncocera 
ahenella. He gathered the sallow in Forfarshire. — P. Buchanan White, M.D., 
Perth. 
Chcerocampa Celerio at Carlisle. — A poor specimen of C. Celerio was taken on 
the railway bank at Carlisle this autumn. — J. B. Hodgkinson, 31, Christ Church 
Street, Preston, November 11th. 
Emmelesia unifasciata at Preston. — The old hedge yet stands out of which I 
took 40 specimens of unifasciata last year ; and, very oddly, I have taken just the 
same number this year, and, as usual, few good ones. — Id. 
Captures at Witherslach. — Another visit to Witherslack, at the end of July, 
produced several species I had not before met with in Westmoreland, viz. : — 
