NOTES ON COLLECTING. 221 



/lartlifnias, and Asjihalia riorimniis weif seen. During my absence 

 Aiii/)hi(lasi/s stnitorio, Xifstiia /lisjiidaria, Kiijiit/nTia jiini)ilata, 'J'aenio- 

 campa Diiniosd, '/'. pulrt'riiloita, and J . inst(ihili!< had emerged from 

 pupsp. — (Ma.tor) R. B. Robertson, Forest View, South borne Road, 

 Boscombe. April 11th, 1901. 



LEpmopTERA AT Castle Moreton. — Very few lepidoptera were 

 moving in this district during March, and the season appears to be a 

 very bite one. Last evening (April lOth) was the hrst night ht for 

 sallow work, and I found TacHiocampa i/ot/iira and '/'. stabilis common, 

 but no other visitors except a single V. (i/n'ina. — (Rev.) E. (I. Dobree 

 Fox, M.A., Castle Moreton, Tewkesbury. Aj>ril llth, 1901. 



Length of the larval life of Pachythelia villosella. — Erratum 

 as to EMERGENCE OF IMAGO. — 1 aiii now quitc sure that I'ailnjthflia 

 rillosi'lla takes three years to complete its transformations, if not four. 

 In May, 1899, we found some larva- about f inch long, in cases as thick 

 as a Swan fountain pen. I cannot think they had grown so much 

 since the July previous, when they would be hatched. Some I had 

 that came out of the egg on July 27th, 1K99, hybernated about ^ inch 

 long, and as thick as a hay-stem only. Those I found in May, 1899, 

 are now, after the second hybernation, about 2 inches long, and will 

 certainly spin wp soon. On page 166 is a slip due to the meaning of 

 a paragraph I had written not being very clearly expressed. I did not 

 have an imago emerge on April 1-lth, 1901, as there stated, but one of 

 the larva:' collected in May, 1899, emerged from hybernation on that date. 

 —U. E. Cowl, 5, Spencer Park, S.W. Mai/ lith, 1901. [We have 

 to apologise to Mrs. Cowl for our share of responsibility in the 

 blunder. In attempting to make clearer the statement Mrs. Cowl 

 ma<le, it appears that we misunderstood her meaning altogether.- -Ed.] 



Searc'hin(; Foii nkjHT-feeding larv.e. Although the evening of 

 May 7th seemed too cold for the field lepidopterist to do any 

 successful work, yet at 8.1.5 p.m., in company with Mr. H. Field, I set 

 out with lamp and boxes to search for night-feeding larva-. After 

 half an hour's walk we commenced operations at a ditch running 

 along the outside of a plantation. In this ditch stunted hawthorn 

 bushes were growing, and on them our prey was feeding. We separated, 

 working along the ditch to each other from opposite ends. Meeting 

 at the end of an hour, we found that our united take was sixty-eight 

 larv* of various species, mainly Jinanuia rrpdinldtn. iriphaina 

 iantliina, T.fii/ihrid, I. nrhana, 1. intcrji'ita, 1. prmniha, Lasinrdiiipa 

 quenus, Xoctiio fcstiva. and A'. tri<iii(/nhiin. E. Crisp. iM. Cnion Road. 

 Cambridge. 



Dkymonia chaoma at i)R(tMLEY. -On the morning of May 19th hist 

 1 found a very fine, fi'eshly emerged female of I )ri/iii<iiii(i rhdniiia at 

 rest on a fence within a mile of my house here. [ have made inijuiries 

 and find so far tluit this species has only been taken once before in 

 this district, and on that occasion by Mr. Ho))e Alderson, some years 

 ago, on the same fence, and within a yard or so of the same spot. — 

 Alfred J. LAWKANt-E, h. Cross Roads. ]'>i()iii]ev Common. Kent. Mini 

 20r/<, 1901. 



OdoNTOPEKA lilDENTATA <)VU'()S1T1N(t O.N .\r| .\J)(> PHKAC.MITES. < hliiutii- 



/icni hidi'utata is known to be polyphagous, but I own I was surprised 

 last night to box a female when busy ovipositing on the terminal leaves 

 of Anindi) ji/irai/iiiiti's. — Percy C. Reid, Feering lUiry, Kelvedon. May 

 27 th, 1901. 



