NOTES ON COLLECTING. 30l 



loth; E. jatubcwae, September 5th -loth ; iJasi/chiia jindibuutia, Septem- 

 ber oth-17th ; Xotolophiis aiitiqKa, July 81st-September 4th ; Lachneia 

 lanc^tris, two nests were found, one on -luly ;-31st and the other on August 

 12th ; Lasiocatnpa (jnerc us, July 31st, an enormous larva, larger than many 

 larva? of Kiitriclui querd folia, but which proved to be ichneumoned; 

 Drepana lacertida, July Blst-September 15th; />. /'aZf((7a, September 

 2nd-15th ; I), hamida, July 31st- September 5th ; Cilix spinida, Sep- 

 tember 17th ; IHcraniira furcida, August 19th- September 1st ; D. 

 rinidit, July 3lst-September 11th ; rtcrostuDia palpina, July 31st- 

 August 28th ; Litiihoiiteri/.v raiiu'lina, August Ist-September 15th ; 

 Leidcaiiipa ilictaeiu'dis, September 5th- 15th ; NoUjclunta droiiwdariux, 

 July Blst-Septeniber 15th; X. zuzac, August 2nd; ]'i/i/a('ra bucephala, 

 August 19th-September 13th ; Clustera ciirtida, September 10th ; 

 Ci/iuatnji/iora diiplaris, August 22nd- September 17th ; C /liictaosa, 

 September 5th-15th ; TriaL'jta psi, September 2nd-17th ; Acrnnicta 

 Icjiorliia, August 2Gth- September 17th ; lladena coutinna, September 

 5th; Gonoptera libatrix, Augnst Ist-September 3rd; I'lmia (icunnia, 

 August 4;th ; L'liaridea umbra, August 19th-25th ; i'atocala nupta, 

 August 1st ; Pericallia Ki/rini/ana , September 3rd-17th ; Selenia lunaria, 

 September 17th; Crocallis eliwinaria, September 5th-6th; Autphidasy^ 

 betularia, August 28th-September 17th ; Tcplirosia punctidaria, Sep- 

 tember lst-17th ; ioJ/x lactcaiia, August 19th-September 17th; Zono- 

 sonia linearia, September 5th-19th ; i'ahera pumria, July 31st, and 

 always ; C crautheuiata, July 31st, and always ; Macan'a notata, Sep- 

 tember 5th-15th; LoiJiasjiUis luaiyiiiata, Angwst 19th- September 13th; 

 Hijpsipetcx iiHpluriata, September 5th-15th ; Kucosmia uudulata, Sep- 

 tember 15th; Cidaria corylata, September 5th-15th ; KucUdia mi, 

 August 20th-27th; Eupisteria /wparata, September 15th. The greater 

 part of these larvje were obtained at Tilgate Forest, which was visited 

 first on August 2nd ; but the season was then too early, as the few 

 larvcB found were all very young. The next visit was on September 

 5th, and others afterwards. Parts of the Forest had suffered severely 

 in the spring under a most extraordinary visitation of the larva of 

 ( 'Iieiinatobia bruuiata, and large tracts of birch trees were almost 

 denuded of foliage. These trees, later in the year, had made an efibrt 

 to develop a second growth of leaves, but had again fallen a prey to 

 clouds of aphides, and these creatures made larva- searching and beat- 

 ing a perfect ordeal. "Whenever a tree or bush was struck the air was 

 filled immediately with a dense flight of the pests, which at once settled 

 on the offending beater, and his face was almost covered. The wonderful 

 plague of this blight, the unusual number of Hies, and also wasps, was 

 a great contrast to the accompanying poor amount of lepidopterous 

 insects of the same period. Sussex seems to have been infested with 

 flies and wasps in the country north of the Downs this year, which is 

 a curious thing when one remembers how very little sun there was. 

 Ci/iuatophnra fluctuusa was found only at Tilgate Forest, and it was in 

 vain to seek it in the blighted trees. The larva appears to have but one 

 requirement, viz., good fresh green leaves. Any sized birch-tree or bush, 

 in any aspect, may have larvae feeding on it, in any part, high and low, but 

 it must be a healthy tree. Probably those larvae die which find them- 

 selves on failing pabulum, a fact which the entomologist who breeds 

 the species will quickly have brought before his notice. — J. C. Dollmax, 

 Hove House, Newton Grove, Bedford Park, S.\\\ Uctubcr '6id, i9U2. 



