24 the entomologist's record. 



articles in the Ent. Record, p. 261, re Eupithecia succenturiata 

 and E. subfulvata, it may be of interest if I give my experience 

 of the two species, for, in my opinion, they are unquestionably 

 distinct. Some twenty years ago I collected between one and 

 two hundred larvae in Teesdale, Weardale, and also at Hartle- 

 pool, all from yarrow, they duly emerged in the spring, all E. sub- 

 fulvata, with six or seven ab. oxydata included. A few years after 

 that I beat one larva from Artemisia absynthium which yielded E. suc- 

 centuriata. In the summer of 1900 I netted, close to Hesleden Dene, 

 a female E. succenturiata, which deposited a few eggs. I fed the larvae 

 upon a species of southernwood, which I had growing in my garden, 

 more like Artemisia maritima than the common southernwood ; they 

 fed up well, and next spring all emerged E. succenturiata, and, with 

 the female, constitute my series of nineteen specimens. In October, 

 1901, I thought I would beat Artemisia absynthium for larvae of, I hoped, 

 E. succenturiata. I managed to get some thirty or forty larvae (in- 

 cluding a few E. absynthiata, which no one could confuse with either E. 

 subfulvata or E. succenturiata larva 3 ), and next spring bred E. subfulvata! 

 notasolitary E. succenturiata, and, of course, the few E. absynthiata larva? 

 I had got, emerged that species. I will not deduce any conclusions from 

 the foregoing facts, but leave it to anyone interested in the matter to 

 form his own. In beaten larvae I certainly would not undertake to 

 say whether they were those of E. succenturiata or E. subfulvata. — 

 J. Gardner, F.E.S., 6, Friar Terrace, Hartlepool. November 6th, 1906. 



PoLYGONIA C-ALBUM AND AgRIADES CORYDON IN OXFORDSHIRE. The 



capture of Polygonia c-album in Oxfordshire is announced in that part 

 of the Annual Report of the Delegates of the Oxford University Museum 

 for 1005 which relates to the Hope department. In a list of insects 

 presented by Mr. YV. Holland is included a specimen of this butterfly 

 from Wychwood Forest, near Charlbury, June 26th, 1905, "when many 

 other specimens were seen," Professor Poulton adding that the species 

 had not been observed in this part of the Oxford district for many 

 years. An account of its previous occurrences in the county at all 

 would be interesting to collectors. Newman gives Bagley "Wood, on 

 the authority of W. H. Draper, but this famous preserve, where I 

 sought V. c-album in vain twenty years ago, is in Berkshire ; while 

 Stainton, of the older writers, mentions no Oxfordshire localities. The 

 same remark applies to Agriades corydon, now also reported by the 

 Hope Professor, as captured on August 8th of the same year, " at the 

 (marry near the old windmill on the Shotover road," nor does Newman 

 give any county locality for it, though no doubt it extends on the chalk 

 all along the Chiltern Hills, so far as they come into Oxfordshire, e.g., 

 in the neighbourhood of Chinnor (A. J. Spiller, Entom., xxiv., p 3). 

 Shotover Hill, however, is not composed of chalk, but consists largely, 

 I believe, of Portland stone and sand, with a cap of greensand ; and 

 the existence of A. corydon in the vicinity is therefore doubly interest- 

 ing.— H. Bowland-Brown, M.A., Harrow Weald. October 29th, 1906. 

 Information wanted concerning Psecadia pusiella. — Can any of 

 your readers inform me whether there is a complete life-history of 

 Psecadia pusiella published in British (or other) magazines? There is 

 only one brood in the year, the larva hybernates small, begins to feed 

 in April on Pulmonaria officinalis, and is fullgrown at the end of May. 

 The imago is on the wing from the end of June till the beginning of 



