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THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 



lamps, right on until the end of July. S. ocellatm. — I took one only, 

 a very small male, it was whirling around on the ground at the foot 

 of an arc lamp on Haverstock Hill, on June 20th. Choerocawpa 

 jwrcellus. — One male was taken from a lamp in Heath Street, on May 

 12th.— Montagu F. Hopson, L.D.S., F.E.S., 16, Rosslyn Hill, 

 Hampstead, N.W. 



Apatura iris on the Hants borders. — I had the pleasure of seeing, 

 without the satisfaction of taking, four or five Apatura iris, flying high 

 around oaks in a wood near Newbury, Berks, on Sunday, July 21st. 

 According to the older books Newbury used to be a favoured locality 

 for this insect, but this is the first time I have met with it, although 

 I have known the district for many years. Newbury is a border town 

 of Berks and Hants, and the credit so far as the county is concerned 

 must go to the latter. — Ibid. 



Capture of Eutricha quercifolia in the London district. — Is 

 not this insect getting scarce in our metropolitan district '? I have a 

 male, taken on July 12th last, at light, in Hampstead. — Ibid. 



Porthesia chrysorrhcea and Eutricha quercifolia. — On July 

 23rd, 1901, I boxed a fresh ^ specimen of Porthesia chrysorrhoea at 

 Hemsby Raihvay Station (nr. Yarmouth, Norfolk). I do not know 

 whether this is a known locality for the species. In July (early) I 

 found a small larva of Eutricha quercifolia in Ruislip ^Yoods, which to 

 my surprise soon went into a cocoon. — Hubert S. Phillips, F.E.S., 

 2G2, Gloucester Terrace. October 10th, 1901. 



Note on keeping cocoons of Miselia oxyacanth.e. — The cocoons 

 of Miselia oj-ijacanthae frequently get hard and dried up by contact 

 with the surrounding earth. When my first moth came out, a cripple, 

 this autumn, I dug up the rest and gave them a liberal shower bath 

 from the greenhouse water-can. The result was, that in a few days 

 I had 23 fine imagines emerge from the remaining pupfe. Other 

 collectors I know have failed to rear M. oxi/acanthae. — J. Henderson, 

 24, Birchin Lane, E.G. Xoreniber ith, 1901. 



Sphinx convolvuli in Piedmont in 1901. — However abundant 

 Sphinx convolvuli may have been in England this year, it was still more 

 abundant in certain parts of Piedmont, and must have swarmed at Turin, 

 for in the early mornings during the fourth week of August, one saw, 

 beneath the electric lamps, what can best be described as heaps of 

 moths. Frequently four or five examples of Sjihinx convolvuli were 

 under a single lamp among the smaller victims, and the early traffic 

 had generally reduced to crushed uselessness most of the specimens. 

 In the Vaudois mountains the species was also common, and one was 

 very interested in seeing these line fellows on the wing during the 

 daytime, certainly more active, wary, and difficult of approach than 

 at dusk when they sucked the nectar from the flowers of a large Salvia, 

 common in the neighbourhood of Bobbie. On August 13th, between 

 Bobbie and Au Pra, a fine fellow was observed feeding at 4.30 p.m. in 

 full activity, and another on the mountains directly south of Bobbie 

 at 12.30, noon, on August 15th, the weather being dull, whilst on the 

 17th, on the mountain path leading from Au Pra to the Col de la 

 Croix, at an elevation of considerably over 6000ft., a fine male flew 

 straight at me and was brought down with a rapid stroke that had to 

 be executed almost before there was time to think. Its flight in 

 the daytime was particularly bird-like, and, on the rough ground a 



