d-i.2 THE ENTOMOLOCtIST's RECORD. 



drying its wings, the nearest vegetation to which was a dark rough 

 moss and the little mountain GaUnm — no lichen at all— whilst I 

 found a pupa-skin within three inches in a little tuft of moss. — H. A. 

 Beadle, 6, Station Street, Keswick. November 11th, 1903. 



Agrius convolvuli in the Isle of Man. — It may be of interest 

 to record that Dr. Cassal caught, during September last, five examples 

 of Annus convolvuli at a tobacco-plant in his garden at Ramsey, and I 

 also had a fine one brought to me which was caught in a glasshouse 

 at Marathon, at the I'esidence of the high bailiff. — H. Shortridge 

 Clarke, F.E.S., Douglas, Isle of Man. Nove)iibev IQth, 1903. 



Pyrameis cardui in London. — Mr. Pickett's record of this immi- 

 grant for the "heart of the City" (antea, p. 29-4) reminds me that 

 on Saturday morning, October 10th, 1 saw one flying along Queen 

 Victoria Street, close to St. Paul's Station. It seemed somewhat 

 feeble, and no wonder, if what I witnessed was a fair example of its 

 recent history ; for in the brief minute in which I was within sight, I 

 saw two lads successively make violent onslaughts with their caps. 

 This species and Pluda gamma were both fairly common at Chingford 

 on September 23rd. — Louis B. Prout. November 16tlt, 1903. 



Notes on the partlyl doublebroodedness of Abraxas grossu- 

 lariata.^ — Referring to my note {antea, p. 21), I paid periodical visits 

 to observe the pupae left in the garden, and I noted that most of them 

 were still alive on January 26th, this year. They had survived a fort- 

 night of very severe weather in the early part of the month, when 

 the thermometer registered from 8° to 14"= of frost. A subsequent 

 period of cold weather, however, proved fatal to them, and on examin- 

 ing the pupae in April they were all dead. I do not think that these 

 advanced broods ever attain the imaginal stage in nature, and certainly 

 not in a climate such as obtains in Manchester, but having regard to 

 the fact that if encouraged with a little gentle warmth when brought 

 indoors, they complete their destiny with apparent ease, it appears 

 possible that in certain mild and sheltered situations in the south, 

 there might be instances of the emergence of a second-brood. Have 

 any of your readers had experience on this point ? — B. H. Crabtree, 

 F.E.S., The Acacias, Levenshulme. November ISth, 1903. 



Further queries about Plujie moths. — In Mr. Dalgiish's excellent 

 list of the lepidoptera of the Clyde valley, neither Pterophorux )nono- 

 (lactyla nor Alucita pentadacUjla appears. Are these two species really 

 absent throughout the district '? Similarly in Mr. Reid's list of the 

 lepidoptera of Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire, P. monodactyia does 

 not appear ; yet Mr. Cheesman says that it is common in Orkney. Is not 

 this species generally distributed throughout Scotland ? In Mr. Day's 

 new Lht of the Lepidoptera found in i'healdre, etc., there is a record of 

 (hyptilus hieraeii, from Bidston, by Brockholes. 0. teucrii used to be 

 called O. hieraeii. Has Mr. Day any reason to believe that Brockholes 

 ever captured (or even knew) the true 0. hieraeii .- In this list also 

 Mr. Day separates Stenoptilia bipa^ictidactyla. and S. pneumonanthtss 

 [plaiiiodactyLuH). Is there any diil'erence between these insects in 

 Cheshire, and can Mr. Day give us the evidence on which it is 

 assumed that 5'. pneumonanthes, Schleich, occurs in Cheshire? Mr. 

 Daltry's excellent List of the Macro-lepidoptera of North Stajfordtihire 

 does not include the plumes. Can any entomologist supply us with 

 a list for the county V — J. W. Tutt. 



