228 THK kntomoi.ogist's record. 



Mr. Selwyu Image, by the capture, on July 21st last, of a spccimeu 

 of Acidalia herbarlata iusicle a shop in Southampton Row, Blooms- 

 bury, has added another to the very few known British specimens of 

 this species. 



Mr. Merrifield has recently received some very fine aberrations of 

 Rhopalocera, bred by Dr. E. Fischer, who submitted the pupee to various 

 temperature conditions. One very extreme form of Aglais urticac was 

 produced by subjecting the pupa to a temperature of — 8° to — 10" C. ; 

 a fine EH(ju)iia polijchloros ab. testudo from a pupa subjected to a 

 temperature of — 6° C. ; Vanessa io ah. Jischeyri, at 0° C. to — 5" C. ; 

 an aberration, transitional between ab. fischeri and ab. antigone, at 

 — 60 C, and ab. antigone also produced by exposure to the same tem- 

 perature. Euvauessa antiupa ab. hijgiaea was produced by exposure 

 of the pupa3 from Qo C. to — 3oO. 



:]aOTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Lepidgptera at Hytiie, Kent. — On June 21st last I went to 

 Hythe, Kent, and stayed three weeks. The weather during my stay, 

 though fine on the whole, was extremely changeable, the wind veering 

 round through almost all the points of the compass in a day, and 

 sometimes oftener. On two occasions, when the weather was bright 

 and sunny, I went to "Caesar's Camp," and the other chalk-hills 

 to the north of Folkestone, and here I found Polgommatus bel- 

 largus in large numbers, the males considerably outnumbering the 

 females. The majority were in excellent condition. They were 

 accompanied by P. icarus (common), F. astrarche (a few ; they 

 seemed to be only just coming out), Coenonympha pampliilns (in 

 swarms), Nisoniades tages and I'amphila sylvanus. Zygaena 

 Jllijyeiididae was also abundant in the same locality, and Z. trifolii 

 fairly common (one or two with the red spots coalescing) in one spot 

 near the foot of the hill, near the rifle target. I was somewhat sur- 

 prised at netting a specimen of Agrotis exclamationis, on the wing in 

 the sunshine on this chalk-hill. Does this species fly by day ? As far 

 as I could judge, it flew past me from behind, while 1 was sitting on 

 the ground pinning some other captures, and settled amongst the grass 

 a few yards in front of me, flying off' again when I approached, and 

 again settling a few yards away, when I managed to secure it. I also 

 took in this locality several Kuclidia mi and one Acidalia ornata, 

 besides Camptogramma bilineata, which was in swarms in splendid 

 condition, both on the hill and in the lanes and hedges round about it. 

 E2nnephele janira was also common and somewhat darker than usual, 

 and I took one Phytomeira viridaria in splendid condition, others 

 that I saw being much worn. On the way back, walking through 

 Cheriton Churchyard, a fine specimen of Sphinx ligustri was pointed 

 out to me by a gardener, walking over the grass. The gardener said 

 he had disturbed it on one of the tombstones a little before I came by, 

 and seeing my net he thought it might interest me. There is a capital 

 privet hedge roimd this churchyard, but though I searched it tho- 

 roughly a few days afterwards, I was unsuccessful in obtaining either 

 eggs or young larvse. Can anyone tell me how the eggs of S. ligustri 

 are laid — whether on the upper- or under-surfacc of the leaves ? They 

 must have Ijeen somewhere on that privet hedge. I found one Qgg of 



