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a specimen of L. vitelliua and also one of L. alhipuncta (worn), at 

 sugar, on September 17th, and my son took an example of L. ritclUna, 

 on the 18th. — (Major) R. B. Roheutson. September Idtli, 1901. 



Leucania vitellina at St. Margaret's Bay. — A fine specimen of 

 L. vitellina was taken at treacle at St. Margaret's Bay, by Mv. E. D. 

 Green, of Plumstead. — W. Dannatt, F.E.S. October lit/i, 1901. 



Cyaniris argiolus at Blackheath. — It may be worth recording 

 that C'l/aniris argiolus has been plentiful in the Blackheath district this 

 year. — Ibid. 



Acidalia virgularia male, attracted by dead female. — A few days 

 ago I had just treated a bred female Acidalia rin/tilaria with oxalic 

 acid, and the moth was lying on my setting table motionless and 

 apparently dead, waiting to be pinned. In the meantime I had 

 treated a few more specimens of different sorts and was about to start 

 pinning, when a ^ A. vir(/tdaria suddenly appeared flying about the 

 room. The <? , after circling about a little, alighted on the setting- 

 table and made straight for the dead J and was boxed without 

 difficulty. This is surely an unusual instance of assembling by a ? 

 that had been chloroformed and treated wdth oxalic acid. — (Rev.) C. 

 D. Ash, B.A., Skipwith Vicarage, Selby. September 2Qth, 1901. 



Abnormal length vp pupal life of Agrophila trabealis. — On 

 August 12th a specimen of A. trabealis emerged in the breeding-cage; 

 this was from a batch of pupte sent to me in 1897, the first of which 

 emerged last year. — Ibid. 



Rearing Hylophila bicolorana. — At one time I experienced some 

 difficulty in getting the larvfe of H. bicolorana to spin up, but I tried 

 keeping them shut up in the dark, with their food-plant, and met 

 with great success. They quickly spun up on the leaves, and in due 

 course produced fine imagines. — E. A. Atmore, F.E.S., King's Lynn. 



\Yith reference to Dr. Riding's note {antea, p. 301), I have several 

 times beaten the larvae here in May and June from oak, but never, I 

 believe, failed to rear them. They have been kept in cardboard boxes, 

 have spun yellowish, boat-shaped cocoons on the sides of the boxes, 

 not on the leaves, and emerged in due course. — E. F. C. Studd, M.A., 

 Oxton, Exeter. Sejdewber 22n(l, 1901. 



In reply to Dr. Riding's query [Ent. Record, antea, -p. 308). I may 

 say that I have often bred Hijlophila bicolorana from larvae beaten out 

 of oaks in the New Forest, and have found them easy to rear. I sleeve 

 them out on oak and after they are once sleeved they require little 

 attention. They invariably spin a boat-shaped cocoon on the underside 

 of an oak leaf, of a rather yellower colour than the leaf itself, and 

 when they pupate in that position I have never know them fail to 

 emerge satisfactorily. No doubt their failure to emerge when pupating 

 on the ground is the result of that abnormal and unnatural position 

 for the pupa. — J. C.Moberly, M.A., Woodlands, Basset, Southampton. 

 October 22nd, 1901. 



Sphingides at Hajipstead. — Sphinx convolvuli. — Several specimens 

 of Sjdiiii.r concolcnli have been taken at Hampstead. Two only have 

 fallen to me, one on September 6th, another on September 26th, both 

 are males, and were taken at rest in Heath Street. Dilina tiliae. — 

 Imagines have been unusually abundant, the first specimen being 

 taken on May 19th. Sinerint/iKs jkijikU. — This is by far the commonest 

 Sphingid and appeared, as usual, early in May, around the electric 



