12 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



The warm sunny days of April and May had such an excellent 

 effect on both larvte and pupfe, that the end of the latter month saw 

 ('ii/jido iiiiniinus in profusion on the chalk-hills of the south coast 

 (Portsmouth), accompanied by Rtimicia phlaeas, Coenonyuipha pamphiluSf 

 I'objoinmatns icarus (nearly all males), Celatttrina anjiolus, A/piades 

 t/u'tis [bellarfius) (Ventnor), Aricia astrarche (Ventnor), Brenthis 

 eiijihrosune ( Waterlooville, Hants.), Enddo'e carda mines, Pieris rapae, 

 P. napi, and /'. bras^icae, Xisnniadcx taf/es, and CaWiphriis rubi 

 (Shoreham, Kent), while the hybernated Vanessids, I'urameis atalanta 

 and \ ani'i<m to, and (T07iepteri/.r rhainni, disported themselves in the 

 brilliant sunshine, /'. atalanta being still on the wing on June 10th, 

 at Ventnor, and all these also being seen at Porchester. 



KuMoe cardaiiiines was without doubt one of the commonest of 

 the spring insects this year, at least twenty being counted on the wing 

 at one time, of which seven ^ s disported themselves together, but 2 s 

 were extremely scarce, and few were captured despite careful searching. 

 In connection with Coenoiu/iiijdiapaniji/iiliis, the early-emerging examples 

 seem certainly worth more than a passing glance, examination result- 

 ing in more pallid examples than are usually found at a later period of 

 the year. Careful turning over of everything captured, resulted in an 

 almost entirely white Pieris rapae, and another of the same species 

 measuring only f inch from tip to tip of extended wings, several good 

 underside abs. of Ai/riades bellan/iis (now to be known as A. thetis), 

 females of J'olijniiniiat}is icariis, strongly embodying the male colora- 

 tion, together with the ab. icariuns. Searching the mullein growing 

 in the warm shelter of the hedgerow at the foot of the chalk-hills at 

 Portsmouth, gave small larvfe of Vncidlia vcrbasci (earlyJune), while, 

 at the same time, the larvae of Malacosouia neustria which were on 

 every hedgerow in the same locality, were in a most forward state, as 

 were also those of Lachneis lanestris, many being in their last instar, a 

 most unusual thing so early in the season. Great depredations by 

 the commoner larvte were everywhere noticeable, for which Hi/bemia 

 defoliaria, Cheimatobia brn\uata, and Oporahia dilutata were largely 

 responsible, their large numbers being due, no doubt, to the mild 

 weather experienced during October, November, and December of last 

 year, the writer counting nearly 60 specimens of C. bruniata and 

 (>. dilntata on one lamp. The larviE of Diloba coeruleocepliala were 

 also found in al)undaiice, between 40 and 50 being tumbled out of a 

 hawthorn hedge at Waterlooville, Hants, during the first week of 

 June, in less than half-an-hour, while larva^ of Crocallis eliiuiuaria, 

 Abraxas //rossidariata, Poecilocaiiipa populi, Arctia caja, Cosinotn'r/ie 

 jintatoria, Triphaena ia)itliiita, T. praniiha, < 'ahjiiinia trape::ina,ete., v^'eve 

 equally common. 



Walking through the rough herbage of the hillside at Porchester, 

 or beating the hedgerows adjacent, one disturbed Bapta temerata, 

 Axpilates ochrearia, Venilia viacidata, (!/riasiiiia clathrata, Lobophora 

 seicalisata, Coreiiiia femujata, ('. toiidentaria, Atuoebe riridaria, 

 Xanthnrlio'e sociata, X. niontanata, Anaitis pkujiata, Kndidia mi, Acontia 

 Inctiiosa, and Hipocrita jacoboeae, with one female Diajdiora mendica at 

 rest on the hedgebank, a very light form of Apatela aceris at rest on a 

 sycamore-trunk (Ventnor), and a nice banded form of I'riaena psi at 

 rest on a fence (Waterlooville). A walk through the adjacent pinewoods 

 gave Thera variata (one specimen only), and dusking in the same 



