278 THE ENTOMOLOGISt's IJECORD. 



July lObh, 1898, the larvse from which are douig well at the present 

 time. — L. W. Newman. Meadow View, Bexley, Kent. 



CoLiAs EDUSA AT Otford, Kent.— On August 2oth, I captured two 

 faded specimens of C. edusa, at Otford. — Ibid. 



Lepiooptera from the Reading district. — I took a rather worn 

 (? Cuchlidion avellana [Apoda limacodes) on birch, in Pamber 

 Forest, on June 23rd last. Boarmia consortaria has been more 

 numerous than usual here, and the same remarks apply to F.rastria 

 fasciana, Tephrosia e.dersaria, Hypsipetes impluviata, Eupisteria 

 heiiarata, Asthena hlomeri and Plwrodesma bajularia, Abrcuas 

 sijlvata has been fairly plentiful, but I have detected only a slight ten- 

 dency to variation in the direction assumed by some of the more northern 

 specimens of this species. On the other hand, Boarmia roboraria 

 has been scarce, and Dicycla oo very scarce. Mellinia gilvago on 

 two nights (12th and 15th September) came in small numbers to 

 sugar, and was accompanied by a few each of Epunda lutulenta and 

 Agrotis saucia. Xanthia anrago is now our best insect out. — ■ 

 Joseph Clarke, 26, Zinzan Street, Eeading. September SOth, 1898. 



Time of appearance of Anthrocera Lavandula. — Referring to 

 your remarks as to the time of appearance of Anthrocera lavandulae 

 (liec, p. 191), I found it pretty common, and I should think fully out, 

 on May 1st, last year, on a hill-top at Costabelle, nr. Hyeres. — (Rev.) 

 Charles J. Buckmaster, M.A., F.E.S., Hindley Vicarage, Wigan. 

 October 3nl, 1898. 



Eugonia autumnaria (alniaria) at Chichester. — On September 

 IGth, I captured a female Eiq/onia autumnaria (alniaria), at a lamp. I 

 tried for eggs, but was unsuccessful. On the 22nd I took a male of 

 this insect from the same lamp. — Joseph Anderson, Chichester. 



Eugonia fuscantaria at Chichester. — I took from the lamp a few 

 specimens of this " Thorn " in the early part of September. — Ibid. 



Note on the season from Chichester. — On the whole, lepidop- 

 tera here were very scarce during the spring and summer. They were 

 more numerous in the autumn. Amongst Geometrids I have never 

 known Anticlea rubidata more abundant. A few lodis rernaria, Epione 

 apiciaria, with these, were about the best species met with. On a wall 

 near our house I noticed a fine Brijuphila perla ab. Jiavescens, which 

 I, unfortunately, lost in boxing. Macroglossa stellatarum was not 

 uncommon in the garden. The best visitors to sugar were Agrotis 

 saucia and Mellinia gilvago. — Ibid. 



Abundance of Chcerocampa elpenor. — The larva3 of C/i<ierocaiii]ia 

 eljienor have been unusually plentiful here this season, feeding on the 

 various species of Epilobium and Galium, growing on the banks of the 

 river and ditches. This species deposits its ova on the underside of a 

 leaf of the food-plant, in clusters of about three in number. — Edward 

 Ransom, Sudbury, Suffolk. October 5th, 1898. 



Leucoma salicis at Sudbury. — I found a large number of the 

 larvae of Leucoma salicis here this spring. They were feeding in an 

 *' osier " bed, and some of the smaller bushes were quite denuded of 

 their foliage by them. They were abundant last year, in all their 

 stages, in the same place. I do not think that it has been previously 

 recorded from this part of Sufiblk (West). — Ibid. 



Euvanessa antiopa at Christchurch. — A very fine specimen of this 

 insect was taken by Mr. T. Tapsell, of Christchurch, within a few 

 miles of the town, in the second week in August. It was disturbed in 



