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last season (1901) in the potato fields. Amokpha populi, L. — Imagines, 

 June 15th to 21st, 1898, a long series emerged in the breeding-cage ; 

 larvffi full-fed September 4th, 1898 ; imagines, May 30th, June 1st, 4th, 

 7th, 9th, 18th, 23rd and 28th, all emerged in the breeding-cage, 1899. 

 Larva^ full-fed September 3rd, 1899. Sesia stellatarum, L. — Imago, 

 April 21st, 1898, at flowers. Imago, June 4th, ? ovipositing on (Jaliin)! 

 venoii on the roadside under a wall ; by searching the plants carefully 

 I got twenty ova, they began to hatch on the 11th, I have no record of 

 thelarv^e turning to pupa\ but they started to emerge on August 25th, 

 and were all out by September 5th. The imagines swarmed in the end 

 of May and beginning of June at azalea and rhododendron flowers in 

 1899. Hemaris tityus (bombyijformis). — Imagines, June 10th to 22nd, 

 1897; June 16th and 19th, 1898, at Wan Fell, Great Salkeld. It visits 

 the flowers of lousewort {I'cilicidan's). — Harry Britten, Great Salkeld. 

 May Qth, 1902. 



Cerura bicuspis from Tilgate Forest. — I have to record the 

 emergence of a <? Cenira hicusjiis, on May 15th, from a cocoon spun 

 by a larva beaten from birch at Tilgate Forest, on September 13th, 

 1901. — J. C. DoLLMAX, Hove House, Newton Grove, Bedford Park, W. 

 May im, 1902. 



LoPHOPTERYX carmelita IX SOUTH OF ScoTLAND. — I was greatly 

 surprised to find on April 19th last, that a female specimen of 

 TjOjihopteri/.v caniidita had emerged in one of my breeding-pots, which 

 contained puptB, from larv;e collected in this locality during the last 

 week in July, and first week in August, 1901. The larvie were 

 collected from birch and black Italian poplar. I knew that I had 

 Leiuraiiipa dirtaca, Ij. dktacoides, Xotadoiita droiiiedannn and A'. 

 ziczac, among those larva?, but never suspected that I had f.oidioptcnjx 

 caruH'lHa. — J. C. Haggart, Galashiels, N.B. ^[al/ 3rd, 1902. 



Spring Lepidoptera in the xorth-east of Ireland. — The weather 

 has been rather unfavourable owing to prevalence of east winds, but 

 on the few favourable evenings at sallows insects were fairly common. 

 Near l^elfast — Tacni<>vaiiii>a »tahilis, T. Imtabilh, T. (jothira, and T. 

 (iraciHi< were common, and two T. opinia, with a sprinkling of 

 hybernated Calncampa retiista, C exvleta, Saipdosonia mtellitia and 

 Cerastis i-accinii. This week on the mountains near here J'acJinobia 

 ritbricosa fairly swarmed at a few small sallow bushes. By day 

 Vanessa to has put in an appearance in considerable numbers, a 

 surprise, as I have never observed this species in this district in the 

 spring before. — T. Greer, Lisson, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone. May 2nd, 

 1902. 



Lepidoptera at Lyndhurst. — On March 27th, I went to Lynd- 

 hurst to stay over Easter, and though the weather was cold and wet, 

 did fairly well. The sallows were out in full bloom in sheltered 

 places and were very productive on two nights out of the five I spent 

 there. Panolh innijicrda was the most abundant of those insects 

 worth taking, the common Tacnintxoiipa stabilis, T. instahiliH, T. 

 pulreridenta,anA T. yothira being as usual a nuisance, with a few T. 

 mininm and T. inunda, whilst T. yrarilis did not appear to be out ; I also 

 took four Xylina soda { pet riji rata), two of which I have now alive, Da.^y- 

 eampa rubujinea $ , and also Xylina rhiznlitha, Xyhicainpa litlmrha, 

 Eupitheeiaabbredata was also common on some nights, Tephrosia 



