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Oelecliia encmella. West Wickham, August 5th, amongst lieath. 
Ypsolophus marginellus. Micklehara and Sandorstead Dowus, July 31st, August 
1st and 5th. Beaten from junipers ; very common. 
Dasycera Oliviella. Dartford Heath fence, July 25th ; and Epping Forest, July 20th. 
(Ecophora tinctella. West Wickham Wood, June 1st. Two specimens amongst heath. 
(Egoconia qxcadHpuncta (Kindermanniella). Hampstead. Six specimens on street 
gas lamps, in August. 
Butalis senescens. Mickleham, July 31st. Two specimens. 
Argyresthia Andereggiella. Epping Forest, July 20th. One specimen. 
„ aurulentclla. Sanderstead and Mickleham, August 1st and 5th. Several 
specimens beaten from junipers. 
Zelleria hepa/riella. Box Hill, July 30th and 31st. Three specimens beaten from 
Yews. 
Coleoplwra hadiipennella. Hampstead, June 25th. 
„ Fahriciella. Box Hill, July 31st. Two specimens. 
„ currucipennella. Epping Forest, July 6th. One specimen. 
Opostega salaciella. Near Hampstead, August 6th, swarming on a gas lamp. 
Bucculatrix Boyerella. Hampstead, June 15th. One specimen. 
—Percy C. Wormald, 35, Bolton Road, St. John's Wood, N.W., 22nd Nov., 1867. 
Note on Agrotis suffitsa,. — In the November No. of the Ent. Men. Mag., p. 134, 
Dr. Jordan and I, although agreeing that saucia is double-brooded, differ as to 
suffusa. I will now give the grounds for the opinions we then expressed, and con- 
fess that his has much stronger support than my own. 
Dr. Jordan concluded that suffusa is double-hrooded, from having been ac- 
customed to take specimens of it (in company with segetum and exclamationis) on 
flowers in May and June, as well as in the autumn. Mr. Doubleday also tells me 
that he has taken specimens in the month of June, in good condition, but smaller 
and paler than those appearing later in the year. And I understand that M. Gueuee 
speaks of two broods — on the wing in June and September. 
For my own opinion that suffusa has but one hrood in the year, I have no 
other confirmation than the following dates, recorded in my diary for 1862. 
On 24th March, at Sallows, I captured a pair ^ and $ of suffusa, apparently 
hybernated, I shut them up together in a box. By 7th April the $ had laid a 
number of eggs ; on 30th April the larvae were hatched ; they ate lettuce and 
radish leaves, and become full-fed sometime in the first half of July. Being 
entirely subterranean in their habits, neai-ly all of them managed to escape from 
the flowerpot by the hole at the bottom, without my knowing it, and I bred only 
one moth, which appeared about the middle of August. 
Perhaps there is some irregularity in the number of broods, depending on the 
character of the seasons. Mr. Doubleday in 1846 captured moths, apparently fresh 
from the pupa, as early as the last week in February, a fact to be accounted for 
neither by Dr. Jordan's view, nor by mine. And Mr. Buckler in 1861 figured a lai-va 
about two-thirds grown on Sept. 30th. — John Hellins, Exeter, 2Stli Jan., 1868. 
