ifloi.] 13 



The following is a list of insects taken : — Lyccena Alexis (common everywhere), 

 L. ^gon (very common in one locality), Chcerocampa porcellus (common), Sesia 

 pJiila.nthiformis (locally plentiful), Dianthcecia capsincola and D. conspersa (buff 

 forms), Caradrina morpheus, C. cuhicularis, Chariclea umbra, Hadena dentina, Cucul- 

 lia umhratica (in swarms), Mawesira albicolon, Hecatera serena, Agrotis porphyrea, 

 Noctua plecta, Melanippe galiata, Emmelesia decnlorata (large and strongly marked), 

 EuhoUa, palumharia, Pseudoterpna pruinata {cytisaria), Acidalia promutaia, A. 

 scutulata, Eupithecia venosata and E. nanata, Anaitis plagiata, Ennychia cingulata, 

 Platyptilia ochrodactylus, Pempelia palumhella, HomcBosoma nebulella, and Phycis 

 subornatella (very common). — KiCHABD Feeek, Church Street, Rugeley : Nov. 1900. 



Autumnal notes from Seaton, Devon. — About the third decade of October, I 

 began to take steps for recording the latest dates on which certain species of insects 

 could be found here this season. The following are some of the results of my 

 observations : — 



October 25th. — Epinephile Janira, 1 <? , seen on the sea shore at Seaton Hole ; 

 also the last of Pieris rapoe. 



November 1st. — Macroglossa stellatarum ; 2nd, Chrysophanus Pldceas and Steno- 

 pteryx hybridalis ; 6th, Sympetrum, striolatum ; 9th, Colias Edusa, rav. Helice, in 

 prime condition : all near the sea shore. 13tli, saw a Vanessa lo flying in the village 

 of Seaton at noon ; another was brought to me from a beetroot bed on the 14th, 

 which was rather torpid in the morning, but flew away afterwards. 15th, a newly 

 emerged $ of C. Edusa was drying its wings near a clump of Lotus corniculatus on 

 the cliff, about 11 a.m. ; I secured the pupal slough, which was within an inch or 

 two of the fly. The imago was brightly coloured, and continued to haunt the 

 environs of its birthplace, with another individual of the same sex, until the fore- 

 noon of the 19th inst. Then came a frost, and they were seen no more. 18th, the 

 last day of V. Atalanta on ivy-bloom, at Seaton Hole ; a week later, Vespa vulgaris, 

 5 , was there still— doubtless from a well sheltered nest; for the inmates of another 

 community in an open situation at the foot of the cliffs, retired from business quite 

 ten days earlier — A. E. Eaton, Woodlands, Seaton, Devon: November 26th, 1900. 



P.S. — 7. Atalanta was seen again yesterday. — A. E. E. : November 2Sth, 1900. 



An unrecorded example of Cloantha perspicillaris from the New Forest. — I 

 have a specimen of Cloantha perspicillaris taken in a garden in the New Forest in 

 1873 by Lady Florence Herbert, sister of Lord Pembroke ; it has not hitherto been 

 recorded. — C. W. Dale, Glanvilles Wootton : November, 1900. 



Netu differentia of Agrotis tritici and nigricans. — In consequence of diverse 

 opinions as to the species of an insect which belongs to me, and which, from pre- 

 sumably melanic influences, is quite black, without any mark on the fore-wings, I 

 was led to make a minute examination, in order to satisfy myself as to its identity, 

 it being admitted one of the above two species. 



The only things distinguishable are the stigmata (which ai-e the same dull black 

 as the rest of the wing, and without outline) ; they are, however, enclosed in a 

 black velvety wedge-shaped sti-euk, the base of which is beyond the reniform, and 



