234 THE entomologist's record. 



Weybridi^c, Chingford, Darent/i, Essex Marshes, etc. — On June 21st 

 a pair of Amphidasys betularia were brought to me. They paired the 

 same night, and remained together until dusk the following day, thus 

 imitating Biston hirtaria. I am rearing a brood of larvae from the 

 resulting ova. On June 25th, at Weybridge, I captured a msXe Drepana 

 lacertinaria and a worn Eurymene dolobraria, male, also one specimen 

 of Melanthia albicillata, on a fir trunk. Common Noctu^ were 

 plentiful in my apology for a garden during the latter part of June, 

 both at sugar and at the flowers of the rocket. On June 30th, I took 

 Acroiycta (Cnspidia) psi, with its wings over its back at 12.20 p.m. On 

 July 5th, Angeroiia prujHiria \\'z.s taken near Chingford, and again on 

 July 15th and 22nd, but on neither occasion was a ? seen. Ephyra 

 Imearia {friliiiearia), which had been taken on June loth, was still 

 plentiful and in fair condition. MelantJiia bicolorata (rubiginata) was 

 abundant. On July 6th common Nocxu^ came freely to sugar on the 

 outskirts of Highgate Wood. I note as to weather : — There had been 

 heavy rain and a distant thunderstorm in the afternoon — sky clear — 

 wind S.^^'. strong. On July nth, I visited Darenth Wood, where I 

 took a ^ Drepana falcataria {falcula) in good condition. (The 

 persistence of the two birch "hook-tips" this year has been, I think, 

 very unusual. My friend, Mr. Bayne, has netted them week after week 

 from May 3tst till July 12th. Ordinarily we meet with them the last 

 fortnight in May and first week in June, and again — second brood — 

 the first week in xA.ugust. Why this unusual "thusness"?) Darenth also 

 yielded Hecate7'a serena on palings, Geometra veniaria blanched by 

 wet, a pair of Macaria notata (which I sleeved on a sallow branch, and 

 from which I eventually got some ova. These were all attached to the 

 outer side of the muslin sleeve, and all deposited singly. I have a few 

 of the larvae feeding on sallow), a specimen of MelantJiia bicolorata, 

 {rubiginata) with the bar very nearly completed, one Melanthia albicillata 

 and several Melanippe procellata and M. rivata. Darenth Wood affords 

 ground for very interesting geologico-entomological observation. The 

 lane leading up by a pretty steep ascent into the wood from the south 

 is chalk, but the wood itself has a sandy soil lying over the chalk. M. 

 procellata was plentiful, with Phibalapteryx tersafa and Scotosia vetulata, 

 so long as the soil was chalky and clematis growing, but in the wood 

 itself, although so near, not a specimen of either was seen. 



On July 15th, a specimen of Aventia flexula was taken at Chingford 

 at Ciusk, also Miana arcuosa and Thyatira batis. Zanclognatha 

 tarsipennalis was plentiful and Uropteryx sainbucata was swarming to a 

 degree I have never before seen. July 19th and 26th found me on 

 Hesperia lineola ground. The first day was unfavourable — strong wind, 

 heavy showers, the second day, however, was about the best entomological 

 day we have had this year. I captured about four dozen specimens of 

 the new "skipper." Other things taken on one or other day were 

 Acidalia emarginata and A. iniitaria, Eupithecia scabiosata [subumbrata), 

 Lithosia lurideola {coinplanula), Calamia phragmitidis (one specimen 

 seated on a reed stem), Euclidia glyphira, one specimen (again, as I 

 think, an unusually late date), Acidalia inuni/taria, worn, Eubolia 

 bipunctaria, one specimen. The geological formation being good sound 

 London clay, it was interesting to meet with this chalk insect, although, 

 of course, the chalk is not very far off, on the other side of the river. 



