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dersley I have found on oak-trunks about 150 cases of a Lujfia which 

 appears to belong to a more robust race than those with which I have 

 previously met. So tenaciously do these larvic cling to the trunks 

 that, on several occasions when attempting to remove them with the 

 forceps, I detached the case only, leaving the naked larva, apparently 

 not much concerned at finding itself suddenly deprived of house and 

 home. From the cases of Xari/cio inonilifcra obtained here, an imago 

 emerged yesterday, whilst a solitary larva of lUtcntia sr/iimti (now in 

 pupa) was found either on oak or hornbeam (oak I think), at East- 

 wood, on May 11th. — F. G. ^^'HITTLK. Jnh/ '■Zml, 1902. 



Abraxas ulmata at Si.f.dmkrk. — I was at Sledmere on June 27th, 

 and again on the 29th, and it may be worth noting that, although 

 specially searching for Ahni.ras aluiata, I found the species in fewer 

 numbers than aberrations were a few seasons ago, and crippled 

 examples were again very evident. — 8. Walker, York. July 10<//, 

 1902. 



The late season for lepidoptera in Wyre Forest. — During the 

 last few days of June and the first few days of July I w^ent to Wyre 

 Forest. Work during the day was practically useless, but sugar at 

 night produced a fair number of species, though nearly all in small 

 numbers. Though only about forty miles from here, the insects of 

 the same species are of a different type, and there is a large number of 

 species in each locality which do not occur in the other. Ci/tnatophora 

 iliijdiiris was very abundant, but all of the pale type, while here thev 

 are all of the dark type. Aplecta tincta was common, and also very 

 much paler than those here. The season was very late, and Brenthis 

 si'leuf was only just coming out. On one day hAitJuinonia ruRnula was 

 il}ing, and I took two ? s, both of which laid batches of eggs before I 

 got back to the house. Uadena contiijua was not uncommon, and was 

 in good condition, whilst //. i/oiistae occurred, but was all but over. 

 A few specimens of Xj/lopltania Itepatica, Ci/)natop/iora or, C. (jctoi/ei<ima 

 and Xeuronia sapiviariae also came to sugar, and four L'raniophora 

 liyufttri. When I left, on July uth, Bnarmla rvboraria was just begin- 

 ning to appear. Here, at present, although moths appear fairly 

 numerous at dusk, hardly anything comes to sugar and beating pro- 

 duces nothing. On June 25th I picked up a female Xntadoufa tupida, 

 which laid a large batch of eggs, and they did well sleeved out until 

 the tomtits discovered them. T cannot now keep larva"" of any size in 

 muslin sleeves as the birds always lind them and pick them out. Next 

 .season I shall try cheese-cloth for sleeves. During coronation week 

 sugai', however, was good, BomolocJia fontiM, occurred very freely, 

 Aplnta pradna was numerous, a very few A. tincta, and three or four 

 Xdiuisiiiiia pendidaria, whilst ('j/inatophora diiplaris was abundant. On 

 the whole, with few exceptions, it has been a very unsatisfactory 

 season. — F. C. Woodforde, B.A., F.E.S.. Market Drayton, Salop. 

 AiKjiist 19th, 1902. 



Lepidoptera in Perthshire. — I take the opportunity of reporting- 

 the taking of the larvip of iirrhiedia .irtaiiijii'Ihid here, the first week in 

 April, at dusk, crawling up from the burnside, at the roots of old 

 stunted ash-trees, but only at thovse trees that had very prominent 

 flower-buds. I do not think it has been taken here by anybody for 

 several years till now. I have also taken several larvie of Dryvumia 

 rhotmia this week, about half fed, at oak, I find the best way to get 



