NOTES ON COLLECTING, ETC. Ill 



are a few Lasiocampa quercifolia larvae about, full fed. I have taken 

 three, and various boys have taken eight among them. Altogether 

 the season seems a good one. I have taken a fair lot of Orthosia 

 vpsilon under the willow bark, they squeeze under uncommonly close 

 pieces — and yet the ichneumons get at them a great deal. Drepana 

 hamtda have been very plentiful this year, but they are cruelly wild. — 

 G. M. A. Hewett, The College, Winchester. 



Ashton-07i-RibhIe. — About a month ago I captured a very dark grey 

 specimen of Tephrosia crepiiscularia {biundularia (?) Ed.). I have never 

 found one before in this district, but used to take plenty of the creamy 

 white ones in the same wood about 50 years ago. At Grange-over-Sands, 

 a week later, C. vacciniana and Nepticula woolhopiella were very plenti- 

 ful, and also N. argentipedella. My breeding has been indifferent. 

 Mainly a few N. despemtella, N. rubivora, N. serella, N. Inteella and 

 A', weaverella. A nice series of Gracilaria oiionie'ia has also come out, 

 one Elachista trapeziella and one Cidaria reticulata^ but it is early yet for 

 this species. — J. B. Hodgkinson, Ashton-on-Ribble. July 2nd, 1891. 



Chatham District. —On June ist, with Mr. Shelton, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Chatham, we captured Anthocaris cardamines, Pieris napi, P. 

 rupee and Lomaspilis marginata (two), and a few days later, by beating, 

 Ligdia adustata (above a dozen). At Wigmore on the 8th, I found 

 Argynnis euphrosyne and other common species. Two days later at 

 Queensdown Warren, the locality where Mr. Sabine and myself used to 

 take so many vars. of Lyccena adonis, I got next to nothing, and at 

 present I have got only one Abraxas ulmata. The place is all cut and 

 spoiled, scarcely a hedge or bush left. At another locality, however, 

 the first brood of Lyccetia adonis swarmed, and several others of this 

 .genus. I captured in half an hour above two dozen fine specimens, 

 similar to those which Mr. Sabine captured, and of which so much was 

 written in the Entomologist about three or four years since under the 

 name of bellargus. I found also a beautiful var. of Lyccena adonis, ? . 

 Upper side bright blue in the centre, shading off to a deep chocolate 

 border and a similarly marked one of Lyccena alexis. On the 12th at 

 Chattenden, I got one Chelonia plantagi?iis, two Scoria dealbata, three 

 Procris statices, one A. cai-damines (the smallest I have ever seen), and 

 other common species, also Acidalia remutata, Asthena candidaia and 

 Ifalias prasinana. — J. Tyrer, Chatham. July, 1891. 



Pitcaple, N.B. — There has been too much cold weather this spring to 

 have been a good season as yet, but insects are now appearing in 

 greater numbers. Up to the present I have seen Vanessa urticce, Pieris 

 brassicce, P. rapce, P. napi, Polyoininatus phloeas, Tceniocanipa stabilis, T. 

 instabilis, T. gothica and var. gothacina, Calocampa exoleta, C. vetusta, 

 Dasypolia templi, Pachnobia rubricosa. Trachea piniperda, Larentia 

 viultistrigaria, Cidaria suffumata and var. piceata, Ant idea badiata, 

 Chesias obliquai-ia, Selenia illunaria, Crocallis bidentata and Fidonia 

 atotnaria. — A. D. Connon, Woodend Brace. June ^th, 1891. 



I have been having good sport among the hills, the severe frosts have 

 prevented night work but the sun has shone out brightly during the day, 

 and in consequence many species have been abundant. In one locality, 

 Argyrolepia bauniatiniana fairly swarmed ; and among others I have 

 taken the following •.—Penthina ochroleucana, P. dimidiana, Euchronda 

 purpiirana (2), E. arbutana, in fair numbers, Orthotcenia ericetana^ 



