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never "knew anybody, except Mr. Hodgkinson, who knew 
any particulars about this common species. There is a 
species in Germany called Farfarse by Professor Zeller: I 
possess examples of it from him, and, as it does not differ 
much from our old Gonodactylus, I thought an accurate life- 
history of its larval habits might lead to a discovery of Zeller’s 
species in Britain, especially so as I once bred a Gonodactylus- 
like insect from a larva found feeding in a kind of gallery made 
in, or under, the woolly under side of a coltsfoot-leaf, found 
growing on the lime-stone rocks at Llanferras, in June; the 
plant grows there in the streaks of pipe, or China clay, 
which crop out two hundred feet above the base of the rocks, 
on what we call the “Goat” or “ Ashworthii” ledges.— C. S. 
Greg son. 
Entomological Notes, Captures, fyc. 
Xylomiges Conspillaris at Danbury. —On June 14th, 
whilst beating a whitethorn hedge in a part of Danbury 
which adjoins the parish of Woodham Ferris, 1 was lucky 
enough to dislodge a male specimen of X. Conspicillaris. It 
is a tine male, and in colour and markings agrees with the 
upper of the three specimens figured in your work on 
‘British Moths.’— Gilbert H. Raynor; Hazeleigh Rectory, 
Maldon, June 23, 1873. 
Agrotera nemoralis at Lewes and near Willesden. —This 
rare pyrale has turned up in two of our counties,—near 
Willesden, in Middlesex, and near Lewes, in Sussex. Mr. 
Boden kindly submitted the Willesden specimens for my 
examination before naming them.— Eduard Newman. 
Hepialus Humuli. —Can any of the readers of the ‘Ento¬ 
mologist’ tell me whether the following two varieties of the 
female Flepialus Humuli are at all common. The first differs 
from the typical insect in not having the slightest red or 
orange markings on the upper wings. The second differs from 
the usual kind in the under wings being of the usual flesh- 
colour just at the margin, but approaching almost to blackness 
at the base. They were neither of them bred.— G. J. L. 
Eastliam ; Grammar School, Clitheroe. 
Lithosia complana. —This insect, as its common name 
implies, is not so generally distributed as a few other species 
