262 THE entomologist's record. 



plaint made to the Forest commissioner by the professional collectors 

 of the district re a certain individual, a visitor, who labelled a favourite 

 ride as his very own, and defied anyone else to use it at their peril. 

 For this 1 cannot vouch, but if it be true it seems a poor reason for 

 the drastic action taken. 



Now it would appear that the method to be adopted to check 

 sugaring is so unconstitutional as to make it obvious that the 

 prohibition cannot be legitimately enforced or maintained, and a 

 protest from an authoratative scientific source would doubtless result 

 in the curbing of the excessive anti-entomological zeal of the local 

 authority. 



I am aware that the "mere collector," as a rule, receives short 

 shrift at your hands, but I venture to think that even this personage 

 will receive your cordial support when he protests against the applica- 

 tion of County Council Park Rules to this much frequented happy 

 hunting ground of naturalists. 



[There are one or two points that want elucidating in the above. 

 As we understand the matter all amateur visiting lepidopterists have 

 been forbidden to sugar owing to the reputed ill-mannered behaviour 

 of some individual 12 months ago. This prohibition appears to have 

 been made owing to the representations of local professional collectors, 

 to be asserted in favour of these same local collectors Avho one assumes 

 are not forbidden to collect in this manner. Is this assumption 

 correct ? One supposes that no discriminating rule of this kind can 

 be maintained. The matter, of course, wants ventilating in the Times, 

 where the facts should be clearly set forth. There are many of our 

 entomologists learned in the law who perhaps can advise Mr. Bell. At 

 any rate one cannot, after all Mr. Goss has done for entomologists in the 

 New Forest, imagine him taking such a rebuff to the free use of the 

 Forest, lying down. — Ed.] 



Notes on the Life=history of Ocnogyna boetica [u-ith /date). 



By H. POWELL. 

 {Concluded from p. 240.) 



Continuing my record of the larvffi of Ocnogyna boetica, I note 

 that three or four larvae moulted for the second time, entering 

 the third stage today, December 25th. The length at the end 

 of the 2nd stage is i-Smm. to 5mm. They are feeding well on 

 groundsel and plantain. By December 28th, nearly all were in the 

 3rd stage and growing fast. Weather damp and rather mild. It has 

 been like this for some time. Not much rain, some very fine days but 

 no wind. 



Third imtar : The head, tubercles, and plates are whitish when the 

 skin is just cast, but they soon become black and shiny as usual. 

 The hairs from the small dorsal tubercles (i) are brown, and so are 

 most of those on the inner sides of the large subdorsals (ii). Brown 

 hairs from lateral tubercles. The rest of the hairs are black. Under 

 a hand lens this is the appearance : A central dorsal light line runs 

 down the body. The large subdorsal tubercles (ii) are set in a broad, 

 sufi'used, blackish line. Below it is a lighter, greyish area, extending 

 to the ventral surface, which is also of this smoky colour. The 

 numerous stiff hairs are very evident, as also are the warts from which 



