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chestnut, Cowclray Park, IMidliurst, Sussex, the day was cold and 

 showery, the insects being in consequence very skiggish. Lepidoptera : 

 Coiias fn/alc and Colias eda>ia. — Taken in September on the downs, 

 about two miles directly north of rh'ighton ; in one spot of about a 

 quarter mile radius both species were decidedly plentiful although in 

 other parts I found none. Pi/raiiwis canltii. — Taken on the same 

 date and in the same locality as the Coliads. (Tonrpti'ti/.v rhaiimi. — 

 Two specimens near Pulborough on July 29th. Knuonia polt/c/doros. — 

 Captured at Wardley, Sussex (near Liphook, Hants) on August 2nd. 

 Marroiilosso stfUataniin. — In Brighton during October. ('Jiorrorattijia 

 porcflliis, — Two specimens at Brighton in September, one in the north, 

 the other in the south part of the town. — Ralph C. Hinkins, 77, 

 Stanford Road, Prestonville, Brighton. 



CosMOTRicHE poTATORiA AT SUGAR ? — One evening last July Mr. 

 Arnold and myself were sugaring in the fens, and were surprised to 

 see a 5 ('. potatoria on one of the posts close to the sugar patch ; four 

 nights later we noticed another, but not on the same post. Has 

 anyone any further information on this subject ? Does the species 

 afiect sugar as do the Lithosiids and other unexpected visitors '? — 

 John F. Musham, Blenheim House, South Park, Lincoln. March 

 6th, 1901. 



Early appearance of Zonosoma porata in confinement. — I was 

 surprised this morning in glancing into one of the cages in which I 

 keep my pupte during the winter to see a fine specimen of ZonosDina 

 •porata sitting on the side of the cage, having emerged from a pupa 

 received from Bexley, Kent, last October. The room in which I keep 

 my pup;e is an ordinary bath-room without fire-place or any artificial 

 means of heating, and the window is invariably kept open all the year 

 round. — H. Ainslie Hill, F.Z.S., F.E.S., 9, Addison Mansions, Ken- 

 sington. March Uth, 1901. 



On the pupal condition of Hemerophila abruptaria during 

 winter. — On November 29th last, at Littlehampton, while searching- 

 on walls for ichneumoned Jjryop/tila iiiuralia pupse, I came across a 

 cocoon similar to that made by IJ. nuiralin, and in removing it I 

 accidentally broke the pupa-case, and revealed a moth quite ready to 

 come out, in fact while it lay in my hand it crawled out of the case 

 and was very lively. I pill-boxed it, but the imago did not expand, 

 and it died two or three days after. I have examined the unexpanded 

 wings, and the markings look very like those of Hemeropliila abruptaria. 

 I do not know whether it is usual for the moth to be ready to come out 

 so long before its proper time of emergence, and it is to obtain 



information on this point that I have written this note. C. W. 



CoLTHRUP, 127, Barry Road, East Dulwich, S.E. January 28th, 1901. 



Early emergences in the Isle of Man. — It may perhaps interest 

 some of the readers of the Record to know that worn specimens of 

 Dianthoccia capsophila were captured on the Douglas coast on the 

 evening of April 28th, and Eupitliccia cenosata the following day. It 

 seems somewhat strange that these insects should be out so early in 

 the season considering the exceedingly cold winds experienced here 

 during March and beginning of April. In favourable seasons the 

 earliest record I have of D. capsophila being on the wing is May 7th. 

 I am indebted to Mr. Garrett, of Douglas, for the above note. — H. 

 Shortridge Clarke, F.E.S., Sulby Parsonage, Isle of Man. April 

 30th, 1901. 



