30 THE entomologist's RECORL). 



comes under the Papilii) niachaon category ; but " several Hiiipntion 

 celeriu " at Douglas, in one evening — May 25th — [t.c, p. 198) strikes 

 one as still more remarkable, and it is a pity the report does not say 

 whether they were captured and the identification absolutely confirmed. 

 Jltiiu}ihila [Lcucania) albipuncta, we are told, has strayed as far as 

 Suffolk {Knt. Mo. Ma;/., xxxviii., p. 263), and has continued to occur in 

 its earlier haunts in the Isle of Wight and South Devon, but //. ritd- 

 lina seems to have disappointed the hopes of those who sought it in 

 these localities, and to be only recorded from Canterbury, two speci- 

 mens in October {ibid., xxxix., p. 15) ; probably it was out so late that 

 collectors had given up working for it. [AtpJim/iiia twijina has also been 

 extremely scarce in south Devon, but HeUotJm anini/era turned up a 

 little more freely. Two Glaca (('crastiii) erijtiirocrp/uda have been 

 taken at Bournemouth (Knt., xxxv., p. 323). 



Of new or unusual localities for sedentary species, several have been 

 recorded. A few which occur to one are south Devon for Xola cdbii- 

 lalis and Xonarjria apavijanii, on the authority of Mr. Porritt, and the 

 Isle of Wight for Aridalia (Ict/ejwraria (Knt. lice, xiv., p. 274). To 

 these may be added liijdrilla jiaiuxtria on the Lincolnshire coast, 

 not recorded till the present year {ibid.,x\., p. 21), a,n<l Fcrcnoptildta 

 [Camptoiirainma) jiuviata, a ? taken by my friend Mr. J. E. Gardner, 

 in my company, at Muchalls, Kincardineshire, on the evening of 

 July Blst. Probably the last-named may be somewhat of a migrant, 

 as it appears in so large a number of localities, though usually singly. 



As for actual bona-fide " additions to the British list," they are 

 now very infrequent in this well- worked order, although there are, no 

 doubt, still some discoveries awaiting our micro-lepidopterists in the 

 more difficult groups, where close allies are liable to have been over- 

 looked or not dift'erentiated. L'oleopliora iiiilvipt')um, Zell., is claimed 

 "by Mr. Barrett during the year {Knt. Mu. Ma;/., xxxviii., p. 79), but the 

 material is at present very slight. The bulk of the lepidopterous 

 " additions to the British list " indexed in the K]itoiiiol();/isfs Uccord 

 for 1902 are, however, merely newly-named aberrations. Mr. IMousley 

 has been Avorking out the variation of Krebia act/uups, Mr. Edelsten 

 that of Hdiop/iila (?) brcciUnca, while a few other interesting aberra- 

 tions have been named and diagnosed, such as (Trapliij)honi {Tamin- 

 caiiipa) pidvendoita ab. /laip/arti, Tutt ; CuKpidia Jiicnarcphala ab. iii(/ra, 

 Shaw ; Aniat/wn {Xnctiia) riibi ab. Haca and ab. ochracra, S. Walk. ; 

 ( 'jp-ldjiliora pcndidaria ab. fiubroacuta, Woodforde. 



Abnormally late dates of appearance of species have been charac- 

 teristic of the season, and I wish I had had time to collect a series 

 of them, as they would be interesting and valuable ; several will be 

 found scattered in our magazines. My own experience of Sandown, 

 which I have so often visited at exactly the same time of year (mid- 

 July) gives me a chance of making some pretty exact comparisons, and 

 I should say unhesitatingly that the season 1902 was the latest since 1 

 commenced systematic work there — about 18h9. During the few days 

 Avhich I spent there (July 21st to 25th, 1902) species were still about 

 which I have never before seen there, such as Ununa iiiidjratica {tem- 

 bvoaa), Axi/lia piitris, Xi/lcna hvpaiira, Aiiiatliea {Xurtiia) frstiva, Aip'nti^ 

 sciictKiii (first brood), Manw.stra {lladcna) dissiniilis (first brood), 

 lldiopliila pallcns (first brood), besides others (some in numbers), 

 which are usually " over " or at their " last gasp," such as Caradrina 



