304 THE entomologist's record, 



direct mimics of any other butterflies, but are least divergent from the 

 non-magnetic coloration and pattern of the male. The form now 

 brought to notice is, on the contrary, a direct and unmistakable mimic 

 of Plancwa poi/t/ei : and, as it is inconvenient to refer to the mimetic 

 forms without assigning names to them, Mr. Trimen proposed to 

 style this form plane)iwideH. 



Miss Edwards details {Km. Mn. Mag., p. 268) the history of 

 Clostera anachureta, the eggs of which were originally taken at St. 

 Leonards-on-Sea in 1H93, and died out in 1903. We are amongst 

 those who believe most strongly that this species has no standing in 

 our indigenous fauna. Between 1890 and 189'4 we ourselves reared 

 some thousands of examples for experimental purposes ; with the 

 exception of a few the imagines were all liberated ; and, in 1891, 1892, 

 and 1893, a large poplar tree, some 30 feet in height, in the garden, 

 was nearly defoliated by the larvje, the imagines from which flew away 

 in due course. In no year could the insect maintain itself with us 

 out-of-doors through the winter from one year to the next, easily as the 

 species could be reared indoors. The summer moths that emerged 

 laid their eggs freely enough in July and August, although wild, but 

 each successive spring the tree had to be restocked from the indoor 

 contingent that cleared three broods a year easily. It is a moth with 

 a distinctly southern habit, and no doubt Miss Edwards' eggs were 

 laid by an escape from one of the very many experimental broods of 

 the species that have been liberated in this country. 



Mr. Jilger records {Ent. Mo. Ma;/.) the capture of a specimen of 

 Opldnm stolida, a south European Noctuid, at Dartmouth, on Septem- 

 ber 23rd last. 



Mr. E. Saunders adds Mi/miecon's gracilis, Sahib., to the British 

 fauna on the strength of a ^ caught at Fleet, on heathy ground, near 

 a nest of Lasiiis nit/er, by Mr, E. A. Butler. 



Dr. Wood adds (Ent. Mo. Ma;/., p. 271) A;iathoiiii/ia ridiidla, Zett., 

 to our list of British diptera. The captures on which the species is 

 added to our fauna are— <? , June 14th, 1902 ; J , May 13th, 1903: 

 J , June 14th, 1902. They were all netted oft' one sycamore bush in 

 Stoke Edith Wood. 



It will save a great amount of labour if those lepidopterists, who 

 are ahvays kind enough to help the author of The Xatural Hhtorij of 

 the IliitisJi Lepidoptera by sending lists, will send direct to him lists of 

 localities (county and places) and dates (for larva^ and imagines), in 

 and on which they have at any time found any of our " plume " moths, 

 especially the common ones. He has practically no Welsh, Scotch, or 

 Irish (except those of Mr. Kane's list) localities, and very few from any 

 of the English counties. Similarly, he has very few from the continent. 

 A tabulated list from each reader of this magazine, if only for one or 

 two common species, without the trouble of writing to each individually, 

 would be a perfect godsend. 



Mr. Fieldhouse records {Xatiiralist, p. 424) the capture of eight 

 specimens of Eaphipniia e.vigua, in the Keighley district of Yorkshire, 

 on September 22nd last. Mr. Porritt, who has confirmed the correct- 

 ness of the name of the species captured, says that, prior to these 

 specimens being taken, only three examples appear to have occurred 

 north of the London district, r/c, two in Pembrokeshire and one at 

 Liverpool. 



