100 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



offers you Lycana alexis or Chrvsophaniis phUva^ for some rare species, 

 which have cost you time and money, and who does not consider he has 

 done a day's work unless he feels he has " had" you, the poorest and 

 most illiterate collector has the heartiest contempt in common with his 

 more educated brother. Some of our best collectors and best observers 

 are working-men, who could not translate a line of German, and have 

 never seen the inside of a Latin grammar, but they may be " scientists" 

 for all that, although they are "collectors." — J. W. Tutt. June, 1890. 



Sesia sphegiformis in Essex. — On June i6th I captured a fine 

 freshly emerged female of S. sphegiformis in Essex. It was quietly 

 resting on an alder leaf. My friend, Mr. Thurnall, took one in the 

 same locality two years ago. — J. A. Cooper. June, 1890. 



Sesia allantiformis in Kent. — I captured a specimen of this rare 

 Sesia crawling over privet blossom in a well-known locality in Kent. 

 The specimen had one of the posterior wings malformed, and attached 

 by some means to the leg, so that it is more interesting than beautiful. — 

 J. W. Tutt. July, 1890. 



Notes of the Season. — Lepidoptera. — I find insects are not very 

 plentiful with us at York yet. 1 was at Bishop's Wood, ten miles, 

 from York, on Monday last, when I captured the folio vving 

 imagines : — Asthena litteata, A. candidata, Eupisteria heparata, Cidaria 

 silaceafa, Abraxas niniata, Platypteryx fakiila, and Argynnis euphra- 

 sy ne. Besides these I obtained a number of larvae from oak, birch, 

 and poplar, amongst others about 60 TcRuiocampa populeti, almost 

 full-fed from aspen (this species is some 8 or 10 days earlier than in 

 previous years). I also think I have larvae of Tethea subtusa, but it 

 is difficult to separate this species from T. populeti. Newman says 

 they spin two leaves together, but I am under the impression that 

 subtusa spins up on one leaf, merely turning over one side of the leaf. 

 I should be plensed to have information of this matter. — R. Button, 

 York. June \th, 1890. 



The weather here has been altogether unfavourable for collecting — 

 cold nights, and during the past week cloudy days. Sugar has so far 

 produced absolutely nothing. By heating, a few things have been 

 obtained — Acidalia remutata, Asthena candidata, and Jodis iacteana, 

 commoner than usual ; on the other hand, Ephyra omicronaria, and 

 Numeria pulveraria have been very scarce for this district. I ha\e 

 known the time when the former came out at almost every stroke of the 

 beating stick. I have taken a few Minoa euphorbiata, but this species 

 likes hot sunshine, of which there has been a lack. Alelitcea artemis} 

 sometimes very abundant, I have not seen ; either it is very late or 

 absent this season. Procris geiyon, last year so abundant, I have not 

 observed, possibly the absence of sunshine will account for this. Leuco- 

 phasia sinapis has been fairly common, but Lyccena argiolus unusually 

 scarce. I hope an improvement will soon be seen. — (Rev.) E. C. 

 DoBREE Fox, Castle Moreton Vicarage. June 'jth, 1890. 



Up to the present sugar has been a blank, but the Geometrina are 

 more plentiful than usual, I have taken Nola cristu/alis in two locali- 

 ties, from which it has never before been recorded, and I hear that in a 



^ Mr. Herbert Goss, F.L.S., told me P.gcryon was out in large numbers at Lewes 

 on the Tuesday in Whit week, and that M. artemis was very abundant in Gloucester- 

 shire a very little later. — Ed. 



