234 THE entomologist's record. 



Eupithecia subfidvata was not uncommon. Towards the end of the 

 month Calliiiiorijha hera, Bryophila muralis, and B. jietia were in 

 evidence, whilst on the same walls that produced the two last-named, 

 were numbers of Luperina testacea, but the range of variation was 

 small. Toadflax being unusually abundant this year, the larvae of 

 Eupithecia linariata were correspondingly common. I found that one 

 bagful of this plant produced 257 pupae, when I turned out the cage 

 recently, although I did not actually see a single larva when I collected 

 it. Up to the present I have seen no Colias edusa, nor has a nightly 

 watch on a patch of Nicotiana revealed Ayrius convolvuli. One 

 morning in June, I beat several imagines of Nudan'a mundana from a 

 mixed hedge of hawthorn, oak, and maple, but am somewhat at a loss 

 to guess on what the larvae could have fed there, as lichen was con- 

 spicuous by its absence, and there are no walls or trees near, only 

 young growth. — Ernest A. Rogers, Kabul House, Teignmouth. 

 September 23)t/, 1909. 



HeCATERA SERENA AND OTHER LePIDOPTERA AT LIGHT AT WeST 



Norwood. — On August 15th, a freshly-emerged <? came in to light at 

 Upper Norwood. I have taken odd specimens at sugar and light in 

 the neighbourhood for the last three years. We may conclude from 

 this, and the record in the September number {antea p. 217), that this 

 species lingers in the suburbs, despite the extension of bricks and 

 mortar. It may be as well to record also the following interesting captures : 

 July 31st, lodis vernana, 2 ', August 11th, Apamea ophioyramma, and 

 Calywnia pyraUna ; August 13th, Charaeas (iraminis. The insects 

 were all attracted by an electric bulb let down in front of an open 

 window, and a looking-glass placed behind it, the space illuminated 

 being the ordinary garden, about 60 yards long, and surrounded by 

 similar gardens. — B. Harold Smith, F.E.S., Edgehill, Warlingham, 

 Surrey. September 21th, 1909. 



Dasypolia templi at Swanage. — With reference to Mr. Leonard 

 Tatchell's note under the above heading {antea p. 187), Dasypolia 

 teiiipli, though usually uncommon, cannot accurately be called " of 

 rare occurrence " in the south of England, as he supposes it to be. I 

 have notes of various captures made in several localities on the Dorset 

 coast, and, in 1895, eleven specimens were reared from larvae found by 

 a friend and myself in the neighbourhood of Swanage. In Lep. Brit, 

 hi., iv., 293 (1897), Barrett writes :".... but it is found, 

 sometimes not rarely, in the Isle of Wight, at Weymouth, Portland, 

 Poole, and Chickerell, on the coast of Dorset ; near Exeter, and from 

 Torquay to Plymouth on that of Devon ; at Land's End, Cornwall ; in 

 Somerset, Gloucestershire . . . ." Besides the above-mentioned 

 Dorset localities, the species has also been recorded from Charmouth 

 in the same county. Mr. Tatchell's note, however, afibrds one fact of 

 peculiar interest, in that he took his Swanage specimen of D. templi 

 " at sugar," whereas Barrett {luc. cit.) specially remarks that the moth, 

 though readily attracted by a strong light, " is not known to frequent 

 flowers or to pay attention to sugar or food of any kind." — Eustace 

 R. Bankes, M.A., Norden, Corfe Castle. Auynst drd, 1909. 



Manduca atropos at Swanage. — I had the good fortune to 

 obtain an imago of this species, on September 29th, in a potato field 

 near here. — Leonard Tatchell, "Karenza," King's Road, Swanage. 

 October 3rd, 1909. 



