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since it is obvious he would agree with some, and disagree with others, 

 and would probably give us other results not there referred to. We 

 might perhaps note the absence of Diloba coendeocephala, and of the 

 Deltoidea. Although, therefore, we should have liked much more 

 than we find in the volume, we are, nevertheless, very pleased to get so 

 much as we do. 



:iglOTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Moths Attracted to Electric Light in 1908 : with Notes on 

 Lepidopteka from Llanbbdrog. — It may be interesting to note that 

 the following species, among others, occurred near our electric light 

 standards during the past season — Amp/ndasys strataria, March 28th, 

 1908 ; Notodonta chaonia, May 19th ; Cymatophora ocularis, July 2nd, 

 Cidaria associata, July 3rd ; Cuspidia met/acephala, July 7th; Ourapteryx 

 saiiibiicaria, var. Amphidasys betidaria, July 18th; Lasiocampa quercus, 

 July 19th ; two 5 s under one lamp, Cossus liyniperda, Leiocampa 

 dictaea, August 4th ; and Charaeas yraminis, August 16th. A visit to 

 Llanbedrog for change of air and scene in early June, was not produc- 

 tive of much in the way of lepidoptera — Xylophada rurea was the 

 only interesting Noctuid at sugar ; Aspilates striyillaria occurred on 

 some rough ground at a considerable elevation. One or two larvae of 

 Leiicania littoralu, Actebia praecox, Anerastia lotella, Lasiocampa quercus 

 var. callunae, and iJepressaria nervosa complete the short list. — F. G. 

 Whittle, 7, Marine Avenue, Southend. March ^Atli, 1909. 



Lepidopterological Notes for 1908. — There are two small errors 

 in my notes published in your last number, which I should like to 

 correct, both on page 56. I am made to say that a pairing of N. lap- 

 ponaria took place 24 hours after emergence of the male. This should 

 vQn.dL female : and my object in mentioning the matter was to direct 

 attention to the various times which elapse in different species after 

 emergence of the female before copulation takes place. Further on, I 

 am described as searching for ^-Ef/eria spheyifurmis on the Sussex Downs 

 — a most unlikely spot to find this species. I wrote, or at least 

 intended to write, ^-E. andrenaeformis, whose foodplant, T'. lantana, is, 

 of course, common on the chalk downs. — Percy C. Eeid, Feering 

 Bury, Kelvedon. March 11th, 1909. 



The Hybernating Stage of Brenthis amathusia. — With reference 

 to the newly-hatched larva of Brenthis amathusia mentioned {E7it. Rec, 

 XX., p. 226), I found this morning that the hybernating larva had died, 

 but so recently, that it had still the appearance of being alive till 

 closely examined.^ — T. A. Chapman. March 11th, 1909. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Gynandromorphs of Plebeius ARGUS (^gon). — We are just now 

 collecting all the information available concerning the gynandro- 

 morphous examples of Plebeius aryus [aeyon) (and other Lyeyenids) in 

 the collections of British (and Continental) lepidopterists. Some sixteen 

 examples of P. aryus are properly recorded so far as showing which parts 

 superficially are 3 , and which ? ; others again recorded as such, are 

 possibly only blue-tinted J s, but there are a number of records that 

 suggest a mine of unrecorded material, the records entirely useless 



