84 tHE entomologist's record. 



I obtained some nice aberrations of Af/wtis exdamationis at Tenby 

 during June, one having a long black bar across the upper wings ; 

 A iew A.ripae, Leucania littoralis, Mamestra albicolon, Miami !itri(jiliK, M. 

 fascluncula, A. corticea, Grammesia tru/rammica, etc., also put in an ap- 

 pearance. Day work produced Plehelm aefion (fine, just out), Macro- 

 (jlosm stdlataniiii, Spilusoma mendica $ and S. urticae ; the last, taken 

 by Mr. Graves, laid a few eggs. I also saw Pijrameu cardui, Eupithecia 

 obloni/ata, etc. I was at Swansea in March and April, and everything 

 was scarce except E. abbreriata, which swarmed on the oak trees. 

 I could have taken 500 on some days. I only got 2 or 3 black Tejihnma 

 bistortata. I was at Milford Haven during May, but did not have much 

 time for entomology, and there did not seem to be much about. I saw a 

 few Anaitis plcvjiata and Aspilatcs citrarla inside the forts, and hundreds 

 of nests of Clisioccwipa neuatria on the blackthorn bushes on the cliff's 

 outside the forts ; they were young when I left, but later on they must 

 have simply stripped the bushes. When I came back to Cheltenham, 

 in July, I went out on the hills around on every fine day with the 

 Eev. E. H. Todd. We took a few An/ymiis ai/laia, Arge (jalatliea, 

 Acidalia oniata, Mdanippe procellata, Zi/(jaena lonicerae, Thymelwus 

 thauiiias, Polijommatusastrarche,'whi[iit Tanai/ra atrata, Eubolia bipunc- 

 taria, Enwjchia cimiulata, and Aciptilia tetradacti/la were common. I 

 also took two or three Hi/podialcia ahenella, Pohjommatus cor y don, P. 

 hellanjus (very scarce this year), Pampldla sylvanus, Goneptenj.v 

 rhavmi, Scotosia rkamnata, Epione apiciaria, Toxocampa pastiiiian, 

 and bred Dlanthoecia carpopha;/a, Eupithecia venosata, Triphnsa 

 duhitata, and Depressaria heracleann (abundant). Acidalia avcrsata was 

 pretty common in the Pitville Gardens in the town, but worn. I put 

 some females up for eggs, and bred some beautiful banded aberrations, 

 2nd brood, also four Timandra amataria and Acidalia bisctata, 2nd 

 brood. I now have larv?e of all three out in the open, hybernating. My 

 moth-trap produced, during October, a few Astcruscupits sphinx (very pale 

 compared with the Swansea ones) ; Himera pennana and Cidaria iniata. 

 Such common things as Oporabia dilntata, Hybernia defoUaria and H. 

 aurantiaria only put in an appearance occasionally. On November 20th, 

 which was very mild, I went round the gas lamps, and took about 

 thirty Poecilocampa jmpuli, $ s and one ? , which has laid a lot of 

 eggs. Mr. Todd and myself tried our luck at pupa-digging, my share 

 being about 120, mostly species of Taeniocainpa I am afraid, though 

 there were a few Smerinthis tiliae, S. popidi, Cymatophora ocularis (3), 

 P.popidi (since emerged), *S'. occUatns, and Pharetra meyacephala. I cap- 

 tured a pair of Ennomos quercinaria (anyidaria), in cop., on August 17th, 

 from which I have eggs, also a few Catocala mipta and Polia jlavi- 

 cincta, at rest. A pupa of Acherontia atropos was dug up in a garden in 

 the town ; this I tried to rear, but it died just before it ought to have 

 emerged. — R.B. Robertson, The Priory, Prestbury, R.S.O., Gloucester. 

 Portland. — The few nights I spent at Portland, in July, were not 

 satisfactory, except that, on one of them, I took five or six of that 

 most uncertain species, Agrotis simulans {pyrophila) — little else, how- 

 ever. One night in September produced Heliophobus hispidus, but 

 none of the other species which usually occur at that time, except 

 one or two Anchocelis lunosa. The larvae of Enwphera cinerosella and of 

 Chanliodm daucellus were both commoner than usual, and emerged 

 well. I do not think that either of these species suffers much from 

 ichneumons, if, indeed, there are any parasitic on them, in this neigh- 



