290 THE entomologist's recoed. 



bloom), fields and wood ; such a thing I never before experienced at 

 the time of year, and the weather was dehghtfuUy fine. I will give a 

 list of the butterflies we met with, viz : V. urticcz one only, one or two 

 V. 20, three G. rhaiimi, not a dozen whites, and here and there an odd 

 Polyommatus phlaas, Coenonympha pamphihis, Epinephele ianira, and 

 Lycczna icariis ; a more scanty lot it would be difficult to imagine on a 

 perfect autumn day, through five and twenty miles of fine and varied 

 country along the Kent and Surrey border. — F. W. Frohawk. Septem- 

 ber, 1890. 



Note on Phoxopteryx obtusana. —I quite agree with Mr. Atmore 

 {^Record, p. 212) in his remarks re Phoxopteryx obtusafia. In the 

 summers of 1886, 1887, and 1888 I found it sparingly among oaks; 

 last year I beat a few from hawthorn only, and early m June this year 

 in the same locality I could only beat it from wild rose bushes where it 

 was, on one particular day, more abundant than I had ever found it 

 before. I am inclined to think the larva is a tree feeder, and that oak 

 v/ill be found to be one of its foodplants. — A. Thurnall, 144, Chob- 

 ham Road, Stratford New Town, E. 



Asthena blomeri. — With regard to obtaining ova from females of 

 this species in confinement, I think I can help Mr. Mason {Record, p. 

 138). Rearing lepidoptera from the egg was a hobby of mine in 

 England, and as I was living for about a year and a half at Tyntesfield, 

 in Mr. Mason's district, where A. blomeri occurs fairly plentifully^ I 

 determined to rear the insect through all stages. Profiting by previous 

 experience vf\\\\ Asthe?ia luteata, I confined the moths in a large muslin- 

 topped glass cylinder, with a sprig of wych elm in water, and found 

 that they deposited ova freely. These are flattish, oblong, and of a 

 sienna-brown colour, and are deposited close along the ribs on the 

 underside of the leaves. My ova were deposited between July 13th 

 and 17th, and began to hatch on the 21st. — C. D. Ash, Southport, 

 Queensland. October 28///, 1890. 



Emergence of Aplecta occulta in November. — When at Forres, 

 in September, I got a few larvse of A. occulta from Mr. Salvage, and, by 

 his advice, I tried the forcing process. I kept them in the kitchen in 

 a flower-pot, and fed them twice a day on dock, on which they grew 

 very rapidly ; when they were about full grown I shifted them to the 

 breeding cage. Some of them pupated about the end of October, and 

 on November 25th a fine female emerged, the next day a second 

 female, and the day following another. Unfortunately, however, some 

 of the larvge have resisted the forcing, and apparently are determined 

 to hybernate in the larval state. — VVm. Milne, 34, Thomson Street, 

 Aberdeen, N.B. December ist, 1890. 



lOCIETIES, 



City of London Entomological Society. — December iZth, 1890. 

 — Mr. O. C. Goldthwait exhibited Coremia propugnata bred from females 

 taken at Rochester and Chingford, showing a wide range of variation 

 in the transverse band, also for comparison a bred series of Melanippe 

 fluctuata, the two species showing parallel ranges of variation in the 



