162 THE entomologist's record. 



wt-re full of them, fluttering up the rush stems and then taking flight 

 for a short time; in half-an-hour or so all were again at rest on the 

 herbage, and not a single one could be seen on the wing. Asthena 

 blomeri — The second brood (?) of this insect began to appear about 

 the third week in July, and specimens in good condition were to be 

 met with in two localities in the same wood, distant a mile apart, up to 

 last Friday (August 15th), when we experienced a strong gale with 

 heavy rain, which seems to have completely destroyed what remained. 

 — J. Mason, Clevedon Court Lodge, Somerset. August i%th, 1890. 



Sutton Park. — Sugar was fairly productive in this locality during 

 June, and till about the 20th of July. Thyatira bails, Vimmia rumicis, 

 Xylophasia rurea, Riisiiia teuebrosa and Euplexia lucipara came fredy 

 till about the 28th of June, when IMoctua pleda, Apkcta nebiilosa, 

 Xylophasia monoglypha \polyodoji) and Trlplmtia proniiba took ihe 

 place of rumicis, rurea, and tenebtosa. Occasionally Noctua augur, 

 N. C-nlgrum, Mlana strigllls and N. festlva turned up. Melantliia 

 alblcillata, M. oceUata, T/iera varlata and Macrarla llturata were 

 common at rest in the woods. Fldonla plnlarla was very common 

 among the fir trees, and Lobophora vlreiata among the hollies. 

 Euthemonla russula, CJielonla plantaglnis and Anarta myrtllll were out 

 among the heather and gorse, as also was Euplthecla 7ianata. My 

 friend Mr. Abbott, of Wylde Green, took Ch(Erocampa porcellus, and 

 one or two Thyatu-a derasa. On Saturday last, he and I were on 

 Cannock Chase, and found, between us, about 150 Calocampa 

 solldaginls, from one of which I have obtained ova. Seven was the 

 most found on one tree. — Harry M. Lee, 42, St. Paul's Close, 

 Walsall. August 28///, 1890. 



Wallasey. — I have this year taken the following rather local species 

 on the Wallasey sandhills, Cheshire : — 



April 4///. A^yssla zonarla, about eighty specimens ; seventy being 

 females. Alay \st. Eubolia llneolata very abundantly. It was, how- 

 ever, taken as early as the end of March this year ; a second brood 

 emerges in July, and I took a specimen on the 28th of August; so 

 we have had llneolata with us for over six months this year, y^une 21st. 

 Mamestra alblcolon and Rhodarla safigulnalls. J^uly <^th. Leucanla 

 llttoralls (I also took the larv?e of this species in the middle of April) 

 and the larvae of N'yss a zonarla feeding at dusk on various low plants. 

 At the commencement of the present month (August) a friend of mine 

 took seventeen Agrotls pi-cecox on the hills. I was, unfortunately, 

 away at the time, and so missed it. I went on the 29th in hope of 

 getting the species, but when thunder, rain, and hail follow each other, 

 one can hardly expect to take precox or anything else. — A. E. Pike, 

 Tranmere, Cheshire. August 2gt/i, 1S90. 



Notes of the Season (Coleoptera). — Hastings. — Among others, I 

 have taken the following species which may be worth recording: — 



By sweeping, especially in the evening, Colenls dentlpes, Afilsotoina 

 calcarata. Colon brunneuni, Athous dlffornils, Prloblum castaneuni . 

 Anobluni fulvlcorne, Tychlus ^-punctatus, Llosonia oblonguluni, Ochlna 

 lieder<z, Pogonocherus hlspldus, Sirangalla ^-fasclata, Lamprosoma 

 concolor, and Cryptocephalus morcei. 



In a sandpit at Guestling I have found Canopsis fisslrostrls (2), C. 



