22 THE entomologist's record. 



A. aqiiilina in our lists ; Noctita pleda, 2 specimens ; N. rubi, very abun- 

 dant ; TriphcEna janthina ; T. comes, several varieties (one very dark), 

 all having the reniform of a reddish colour; Amphipyra pyraiiiidea, 

 abundant and in fine condition ; A. tragopogonis and Mania mama, very 

 abundant ; Tethea subtusa, i specimen caught at dusk ; Hade7ia trifolii ; 

 H. dissimilis {suasa), i worn specimen; Gotioptera /ibatrix; Habrostola 

 tripartita, i specimen at dusk, flying over nettles; Catocala nupta, fairly 

 common. Of Geometers, 21 species were taken, mostly common 

 ones. The following alone seem worthy of record : Acidaiia imitaria ; 

 A. ema?-ginata ; Ligdia adustata ; Einmelesia alchemillata ; Eupithecia 

 subfidvata, and Cidaria picata. 



The locality sugared was the circumference of an old duck-decoy 

 pond, surrounded by trees of several kinds and with a plentiful under- 

 growth of shrubs. The evening of the 3rd was the most prolific, and 

 was an illustration of the success of sugar after heavy rain. — Francis 

 John Buckell, M.B., 32, Canonbury Square, N. 



Notes on the Early Season. — This year everything hereabouts is 

 unusually forward. Among lepidoptera, Phigalia pilosaria has been 

 out in our woods all the year, and a few were observed at rest on 

 December 26th of last year ; I have been breeding it freely all the year. 

 Anisopt:ryx cescularia first appeared in my cages on January 26th and 

 freely since, Hybernia progeinmaria on January 28th, and CymatopJwra 

 flavicornis on March 9th, though my friend, Mr. J. Batty of this town, 

 bred one three weeks previously. P. rapce. has been emerging freely all 

 the year, and the first Nyssia hispidaria — a female — emerged on March 

 9th. Tep/irosia crepuscularia, a male, came out on March 9th, and a 

 female Tmiiocampa mbricosa to-day, the nth inst. I may here state 

 all my breedings are conducted in a house of exactly the same 

 temperature as out of doors. I was out in a wood near here to-day, 

 but did not see or take anything worthy of notice. It was so warm, 

 one could have fancied it was May if the trees had only been in foliage. 

 Tortricodes hyematia was literally flying in hundreds everywhere when 

 the sun was shining, but directly it disappeared behind a cloud, they 

 all settled on the herbage, and not one was to be seen. C. flavicornis 

 was at rest, but not at all commonly. — A. E. Hall, Norbury, Pitsmoor, 

 Sheffield. March nth, 1890. 



Abundance of Hybernl\ LEUCOPHyEARiA and other Spring Moths. 

 — Perhaps some of your readers' experience may be identical with my 

 own, regarding the abundance of Hybernia leucophaaria this year. I 

 took it here as early as January i6th on a park fence, and in 

 considerable numbers, taking about 40 that day, and over 200 $ and i 

 ? in the course of a week. There was then a slight lull regarding 

 numbers, the weather perhaps accounting for this, but I took it freshly 

 emerged up to March 6th. Some of them were very good varieties, es- 

 pecially among the dark-banded ones, which occurred at the rate of about 

 20 per cent. ; a peculiar point being the later the emergence the darker 

 the variety, and the number of dark ones seemed to increase in propor- 

 tion, the later I found them. I have not had much experience with 

 this moth hitherto, as last year after very careful search (on tree trunks 

 not fences) for about 6 weeks, I only took i 1^ on the 19th of March, 

 and the year before about 30 in the same place, which abounded in 



