220 THE entomologist's record. 



I have recently beaten a large number of cases (determined by my 

 friend Mr. Bower as those of Luffia ferchaultella) , from the extremities 

 of the branches of a thorn tree much covered with lichen. It stands 

 out quite alone by itself on a grass lawn. It is curious, but no case 

 could be found by searching the trunk or large part of the branches, 

 but they were beaten freely from the extremities. This is another 

 illustration, I suppose, of the different habits moths themselves have 

 here compared with those they seem to have in other counties, viz., 

 sitting on branches instead of trunks. The uselessness of tree-trunk 

 searching round here has been noticed by other lepidopfcerists besides 

 myself.— E. F. Studd, F.E.S., Oxton, Exeter. Man 2^^/', 1902. 



During the spring of the present year I only got two fine days at 

 Brephos notha, but on these occasions soon after the sun came out 

 about midday, I found a good many sitting on the ground in damp 

 places, and when so found they were easy to catch, but as soon as the 

 sun got hot they flew high again. Sallows were of little use, the only 

 insect really worth catching that I took being a Taeniocainpa i/racilis, 

 approaching the New Forest form, quite different from the type, 

 although not reaching the deep red of the extreme New Forest form. 

 Throughout May insects were extremely scarce, and only seven or eight 

 Eucosniia certata were taken in my garden against over twenty last year, 

 whilst in the woods, up to date, there is scarcely an insect to be seen. 

 Even the commonest species are scarce, Nola cunfii^aUs being, however, 

 an exception, and fairly numerous. A dozen Macaria notata makes a 

 good day's catch as against the scores to be seen last year. — F. C. 

 WoonFORDE, 13. A., F.E.S., Market Drayton. June dth, 1902. 



Bacotia sepium, Speyer, at Chingford. — 1 have the pleasure of 

 being able to confirm the old record of Bacotia sepium for Epping 

 Forest {vide Tutt, Brit. Lep., ii., p. 264). On May 2Sth last, when 

 beating for Proutias in the Chingford section, I knocked out a single 

 larva of this species ; if I remember rightly it came out of a lichen- 

 covered hawthorn, and was in the tray at the same moment as a larva 

 of F. betulina ; at any rate I took it at first glance for a strange variety 

 of the case of that species, but was, of course, immediately undeceived 

 on seeing the stout and very different-looking larva. We have thus 

 three of our interesting and much overlooked Psychids — B. sepiuw, P. 

 betulina, and P. eppingella — occurring in practically the same spot in 

 Epping Forest. As Mr. Tutt does not appear to indicate ihe fact in 

 his " synonymy," it may be not amiss to add that j\Ir. Barrett {Lep. 

 Brit., ii., pi. 86) gives two recognizable figures of the case of B. 

 sepium — -fig. 2b, the larva, under the name of Fuiiiea betulina, and 

 fig. 4a, the female sitting on case, under the name of Fuviea tabulella ; 

 fig. 2c, Fuuiea betulina, pupa-skin and case, is an excellent representa- 

 tion of those of the true betulina, Zell. — Louis B. Prout, F.E.8., 246, 

 Richmond Road, N.E. June 19th, 1902. 



Larvae of Bryophila muralis (glandifera). — I have never seen 

 the larvae of this reported as feeding on lichens on trees, but always on 

 walls, and have often wondered why it should not do so. 1 have often 

 searched but without result, until last week, at Folkestone, 1 found on 

 a tree-trunk, a cocoon containing a full-fed larva, ready for pupation, 

 and on two other trees I found two more larvie feeding on the lichens, 

 near their cocoons, to which they retire when not feeding. These 

 trees were a long way from any walls. Can you tell me why this 



