112 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



Cnephasia poliiana abundant, C. mvsadana, Phoxopteryx nnguicella, P. 

 tnyrtillana^ P. iundafia, Coccyx cosmophorana, C. vaccinia?ia, Retinia 

 resinana, also some of the rarer Tortrices and other things, — W. Reid, 

 Perthshire. 



Tullamore, — I have been across the bog near Tullamore to-day but 

 saw no Ccenonympha davus or Macroglossa bombyliformis. One or two 

 Anarta myrtilli, one Eicpithecia safyrata, some Thecla nidi, some 

 Saturnia carpini, and various common insects. MelitcBa auritiia is 

 not out yet. — W. F. de V. Kane, Sloperton Lodge, Kingstown. 



Drymonia chaonia and Cucullia chamomill.b at Christchurch. 

 — It may be of interest to note that I captured on May 9th a large 

 specimen of Drymonia chaonia flying at dusk in my garden from which 

 I obtained some ova ; also Cucullia chamomillce on the evening of the 

 nth at laurel blossom close to the same spot. Both are in very fine 

 condition, and I believe have never been taken in this neighbourhood 

 before. — J. M. Adye, Somerford Grange, Christchurch. June i(^ih, 

 1891. 



Agrilus sinuatus in the New Forest. — Last autumn I took 

 several specimens of Agrilus sinuatus {cliryseis, Curt.) in the New 

 Forest. Two of them I have presented to the Hope Collection at the 

 University Museum. — E. W. Bowell, Wadham College, Oxford. 



BOjMBYx ruei. — On the evening of June loth, I found the males of 

 this insect flying in numbers on a moor in Inverness. By watching 

 their flight I discovered a female in the heather already in cop., and 

 by taking my station close to her I netted nine males in a few minutes, 

 and could doubtless have captured more had I had time to stay longer. 

 Her attractive power was evidently not lost with her virginity. — John 

 E. Eastwood, Enton Lodge, VVitley. 



Notes on Biston hirtaria. — Ova deposited latter part of April, 

 hatch in about three weeks (middle of May). The species lays very 

 freely in confinement always in cracks, crevices, etc., if available. 

 The larva in this neighbourhood feeds normally on lime, but in my garden 

 occurs on pear, and in captivity will eat almost anything, e.g., hawthorn, 

 birch, etc. I have never noticed the imago on anything but lime, 

 pear, poplar (once) and hawthorn (a 3- worn, so that this would afford 

 no clue to its food). The larva does not seem to undergo any 

 important changes of coloration, though when young the tints are 

 decidedly brighter than afterwards — purplish, ringed (at the segmental 

 divisions (?) — I have made no proper description of this larva, and 

 write from memory) with bright yellow. Moults five times — approxi- 

 mately when ten, nineteen, twenty-eight, thirty-nine and forty-eight days 

 old, but some of the same batch grow much more slowly than others. 

 They begin going to earth about middleof July, a fortnight after last moult, 

 and make no cocoon, not even (at least in captivity) a very fragile one, as 

 Dr. Buckell suggested, might possibly in the case. Some go down nearly 

 two inches, others turn on the surface of the earth. The imago seems to 

 emerge most freely about the middle of April ; I find them most 

 abundant from April 15th to 25th, but no doubt weather influences 

 them greatly. Of my batch this spring three emerged on March 25th, 

 brought about by a S.W. wind. The bulk (except some I forced at a 

 moderate temperature in January and February, which mostly produced 

 cripples) from April 14 to 28, and one tardy one on May 7. It copu- 



