336 THK entomologist's record. 



emergence of two imagines of Perizoma bifaciata (unifasciata), on 

 July 80th and August 5th this year, from pup^e of the autumn of 

 1900, they thus having remained over five winters as pupae. — Robert 

 Adkin, F.E.S., Lewisham. November 19t/i, 1905. 



Manduca atropos in Essex. — A pupa of Mandnca atropos was 

 brought to me on October 24th from a farm here, discovered by a potato 

 digger. It was the only one found on several acres of potatoes.^ 

 E. Miller, The Croft, Rainsford Lane, Chelmsford, Essex. November 

 7th, 1905. 



Manduca atropos at Mucking. — I have had two larvfe and six 

 pupfe brought to me this autumn. Two of the pupje were dead. I 

 have so far bred only one imago, on October 1st. —(Rev.) C. R. N. 

 Burrows, The Vicarage, Mucking, Stanford-le-Hope. Norctiiber llfA, 

 1905. 



Cirrhcedia xerampelina in Gloucestershire. — I have taken a good 

 many Cirrhoedia xerampelina on the Cotteswold Hills in this neigh- 

 bourhood, 600 and 700 feet up, and on the slopes of the hills in very 

 dry situations. I have dug the pupa and taken the imago at rest on 

 ash-trunks on the hills.— W. R. Buckell, M.D., Fairholme, Mont- 

 pellier, Cheltenham. November 5th, 1905. 



Unusual time of emergence of Hyles euphorble. — In early 

 August, 1904, when walking up the Saas-Thal, between Balen and 

 Saas, I found a great many larvae of various sizes of H>/les eupliorbiae. 

 Of these some 25 pupated, and the pups were kept through the winter in 

 an ordinary living room with a fire. A fair number of well-developed 

 imagines emerged in May and June and two in July, 1905, the last about 

 the 12th. Three living pupte remained at mid-July when I again 

 went abroad, and the pup:* travelled with me for some five or six 

 weeks in northern Italy, etc., but without emerging. It was, therefore, 

 with some surprise that to-day (November 9th) I found a J from one 

 of these pupfie expanding its wings, and which, with the exception of 

 a slight crinkling of the wings, is perfect and of good size, though 

 poor in colour. One supposes, however, that it was not altogether 

 happy in its emergence at this time, for the prothoracic shield is 

 still adherent to the moth, and I had to lift one of the antenn;B from 

 its sheath which was adherent to the prothoracic plate. A pupal 

 period of fifteen months, however, appears to me to be sufficiently 

 unusual to merit notice. — A. M. Cochrane, Lewisham, S.E. November 

 dth, 1904. 



Oporabia filigrammaria in Ireland. — On June 11th and 14th, I 

 took larvfe of Oporabia filiijrammaria feeding on heather on Benaughlin, 

 in CO. Fermanagh. Apparently they were nearly over, for most of the 

 larvae were stung ; I only bred one moth, which emerged August 31st. 

 From September 5th to September 11th, I was taking the same 

 species on the Lancashire moors. Returning to Ireland on September 

 14th, I at once paid a visit to Benaughlin, but failed to find the moth, 

 probably I was too late, as the season was an early one. (K antumnata, 

 which occurs in the woods in the same county, is at least a fortnight 

 later. If O. antumnata and 0. Jilif/rammaria are the same species, as 

 I am inclined to believe, we have the curious case of the moorland 

 form of a species appearing earlier than the lowland form. I am told 

 that this is the case with the two forms of Hi/paipetes sordidata, but 



