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touching on the Hd, 2 a good distance apart, and 2 touching each 

 other on the bottom of the box ; of these last, one is laid normally 

 flat, the other is laid against it somewhat on edge. The egg is 

 moderately bright yellowish -green in colour, oval in outline, depressed 

 considerably over the greater part of the upper surface. With a 

 hand-lens the shell appears to be uniformly minutely pitted. The 

 contents appear to be pale, and one traces without difficulty the 

 embryo larva inside, lying around the outer edge of the egg, the 

 central depression apparently almost meeting the base. On August 

 28rd, 4 eggs empty — larvte dead — eggs transparent ; a cleanly-bitten 

 circular hole at the micropylar end of each egg. August 25th — the 

 other two just hatched, and the lovely little yellow larva^ put on knot- 

 grass, and sent to the Eev. C. E. N. Burrows. 



Colias phiconwne. — 2 $ s, caught on the Stelvio, August 15th, 

 1909, laid a single egg each on a hindwing. Pale yellow 

 when laid, but had changed by August 17th, to a deep orange- 

 red, except the extreme base and apex, which remained yellow. 

 The egg is tall, spindle-shaped, much thicker in the median 

 part than at either end, ending in rounded point at apex ; 

 delicately ribbed longitudinally with fine shiny ribs, reaching from 

 apex to base, and very finely ribbed transversely between the longi- 

 tudinal ribs ; the general appearance both in colour and ribbing, to a 

 cob of Indian corn, is very striking. The longitudinal ribs appear to 

 be 34 (but this number may not be quite accurate, as we have only a 

 hand-lens for the examination of the eggs). The egg appears to be 

 about three times as high as is its width, at the widest part. One 

 of these eggs hatched August 23rd, the egg-shell being absolutely trans- 

 parent after the larva had left it. The larva was put on a clover leaf 

 and next morning was seen to have nibbled a little hole in it. — 



J. W. TUTT. ^ 



:^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Lepidoptekous larv.e. — It may not be inadvisable to note that the 

 following larvte have been taken in our locality this season, viz., 

 Aviorpha jiopuli, Snierivtliiis ocellatiis, Lasiocaiii'i)a qiiercus, Macrnthi/lacia 

 rubi, Drepana falcataria, Clostera rediisa, Notoclonta droniedariiis, N. 

 ziczac, Lophopteryx camelina, Cerura fnrcula, Apatela aceris, Pliisia 

 vioneta (taken on iiionkshood), Anip/n'dasj/s strotaria, and A. betularia 

 (in large numbers on horse-chestnut). I may add that large areas 

 of cablDage-plants have been destroyed by the larvae of Pierift brassicae 

 and /'. rajiac. — G. Hobbs, 37, Alexandra Road, Aldershot, Hants. 

 November ith, 1909. 



LEPmoPTERA IN Essex in 1909. — I have observed the following 

 not generally common lepidoptera in this county during the past 

 season: — Enpitlu'cia exit/nata, Macaria litnrata, and Tepliroaia Itiridata, 

 June 6th, on rushes and fences near Childerditch Common ; Tinea 

 .leuiifiilrella, June 18th, near Thorndon Park; Bactrn furfurana, July 

 3rd, flying freely in the evening over Bowers Gifibrd Marsh ; 

 Arni/rextliia curvella, July 8th, on a fence in Southend ; t'/tiof/matobia 

 fiiluiinosa, August 11th, at electric light, Westclift' ; Dnri/phora palux- 

 trella, August 14th, Achroea (jrisella, August 15th, Nonaniia arnndijiis, 

 August 16th, at electric light, Westclifl"; Enpoecilia alfinitana, August 

 26th, on apoplar trunk in Southend, no doubt a traveller from the 

 marshes ; Paraponyx stratAotata, ? , x\ugust 27th, at the electric light, 



