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Lepidoptera in Essex. — I have found this a poor season. Moths 

 came to sugar in crowds during the month of July, but the absence of 

 the better Noctuids was very marked. The following unusvial visitors 

 were observed either at, or flying over, sugar : — Drepana binaria, May 

 29th, flying over sugared oak leaves; Gonodontis bidentata, on May 

 29th, on sugared dog-rose; Pluda iota, July 5th, sugared bramble; 

 Cucullia a.sfe?7's, July 16th, on sugared milfoil; Lophopteryx camelina 

 and Pyramta purpuralis, August 12th, on sugared bracken. It is quite 

 likely that some of the above strayed on the sugar, but the presence 

 of Cncidlia asteris strikes me as being of special interest. I had never 

 before seen a " shark " moth at sugar. Until this season I had not 

 seen Eupithecia succenturiata alive ; I bred four specimens from 

 mugwort-feeding larvfe, between June 27th and 29th, and several 

 moths were seen at sugared milfoil during the first half of July. I got 

 a series of Eupithecia scabiosata which commenced to emerge on May 

 30th. The larvae were found on centaury, and thought to be E. 

 oblongata, and were referred to as such in Efit. Record (vol. xvi., 

 p. 256). Of Pyrameis cardui two examples were seen at Great Waker- 

 ing, on June 4th, and, later on, a few larvje were observed on thistles. 

 A larva of Notodonta ziczac, found on sallow at Thundersley, on July 

 12th, produced a moth on August 12th. A few of the following are 

 new to me, mostly from this district : — Taeniocampa miniosa, March 

 23rd and April 11th, a series from Warley larvae ; Drepana falcataria, 

 May 25th ; Pkibalapteryx tersata, from June 6th to 28th, a series 

 from Great Wakering ; Cymatophora diiplaris, July 12th, at sugar, 

 Thundersley Common ; Coleophora binotapennella, July 14th, at Great 

 Wakering ; Gelechia sororculella, on July 15th, Thundersley Common ; 

 Lozopera dilucidana, on July 16th, from Pastinaca sativa, at Great 

 Wakering; PentJmia fuliyana, July 19th, Great Wakering; Teleia 

 moiifetella, on July 20th, Thundersley Common ; Cidaria testata, 

 larvae common on sallow ; Coleophora lineolea, on August 4th, bred 

 from Ballota nigra ; Coleophora therinella, on August 6th, cases on 

 thistles at Great Wakering. On September 2nd, Noctna c-nigrum $ 

 and N. xanthofirapha 3' were taken at sugar in cop., a week has now 

 elapsed and no eggs have yet been obtained. — F. G. Whittle, 7, 

 Marine Avenue, Southend. September 9th, 1905. 



:]aOTES ON LIFE-HISTORIES, LARYiE, &c. 



Egg and young larva of Satyrus prieuri. — Ova : Laid by a $ 

 ab. nhagonis, about August 7th, and sent me by Miss Fountaine from 

 Albarracin. When received (August 18th) several of the ova had 

 already hatched, whilst others were upon the point of hatching. A 

 few had apparently not changed in any way since they were laid. I 

 think it is probable that their unchanged condition was due to some 

 slight injury received in removing them, for they were loose in the 

 box, whilst nearly all the developed eggs were attached to the gauze 

 on which they had been deposited. Description, — Egg firmly glued 

 to the object upon which it is laid. Dimmsions : Height 1mm., 

 greatest width •8mm. Shape : Barrel-shaped, top a much flattened 

 dome, base broader, and with a central concavity. Colour : In the 

 unchanged egg it is pale creamy-yellow, the surface is shiny, and there 

 is a semitransparent appearance. In the matured egg the surface is 



