278 THE entomologist's record. 



Yet, at St. Anne's-on-Sea (so near the latter place) the season has been 

 everything that could be desired. My few excursions into Kent 

 produced good results. The season at Reading, Freshwater and York 

 has been remarkably good, and from Sligo come the same encouraging 

 reports. ButterHies have not been over abundant, with the exception 

 of the Fieridce, Hesperia lineola, H. aciceon and panisciis, which appear 

 to have swarmed in their own particular localities. A record of that 

 occasionally introduced visitor to our shores, Polyommahis virgaurcca 

 may be found in the pages of the Ent. Re.cord, but there appears to 

 be nothing else special, recorded. Among the Sphingidae, Sphi?tx 

 convolvuli has occurred somewhat freely, also a few specimens of 

 Acherontia ntropos, and one Deilephela livornica recorded from 

 Norwich ; whilst, among the Sesiidae, Scsia formicafor/nis, S. nmsci- 

 formts and S. sphegiformis have occurred freely, each in its own 

 favoured haunts, and S. scoliceformis has been bred from birch in 

 Rannoch. Lithosia sericea (inolybdeola) and L. caniola have occurred 

 again, and a great take of Callimorpha hera is recorded. Limacodes 

 testudo appears to have been more than usually common, whilst 

 Messrs. Farren and Jones had rare sport with Macrogaster arundinis 

 {castatiecB). The yellow variety of Zygcena filipejiduhe has been turned 

 up in the Isle of Wight. The finding of eggs of Eiidromis versicolor 

 in some numbers by Mr. Holland, closes the most important records 

 of the Bombyces. Of the Cuspidatie, Siauropus fagi (two broods) 

 comes well to the front, having been fairly abundant both in the 

 imago and larval stages. The larvre of the commoner Notodontce 

 have been very abundant. But it is among the Noctu.^ that the 

 greatest work has been done. Cymatophora ocularis turned up ni some 

 numbers at Wicken, as also did Cuspidia strigosa in the same locality, 

 Cuspidia alni larvae appear to have been common, whilst larvae of 

 Viminia menyanthidis have been more abundant than of late years. 

 The second brood of Vi?ninia albovenosa was found in the Fens, the 

 first brood having been excessively abundant. Leiicania albipuncta has 

 occurred as usual on the south east coast ; whilst Messrs. Bird, Bowles 

 and Robinson are to be congratulated on showing us, at last, how to take 

 Nonagria canuce in some numbers. N. neurica var. arnndi/ieta and 

 Leucaiiia hrevilinea have been much scarcer than usual, but Mr. Mera 

 is to be congratulated on having turned up Nonagria concolor compara- 

 tively near London, I understand that this species has occurred in 

 about its usual abundance in the old locality, but a new home for the 

 species may soon lead to some of us being able to get types for our 

 collections. The rearing of Pachetra leucophcea by Dr. Chapman, from 

 ova, obtained by Mr. Jeffrey from Kentish parents, leads me to point 

 out that the parents came, if not from the same locality, from a very 

 near one to that in which the species was reputed to have been taken 

 some years ago. I took Mamestra abjecta in Wicken Fen, and the life- 

 history of Apamea ophiogramma having been worked out by Mr. Battley, 

 we may reasonably hope that our cabinets will soon be better supplied 

 with this species. The rarer Caradrinidce. appear to- have been absent 

 or overlooked as there is only the record of Mr. Hodges' Guernsey 

 specimens.^ The life-history o{ Agrotis lunigerahz.^ been worked out 



' These I have now seen, and they^are undoubted Caradiina siipersics, H.-S., the 

 rarest of all our species, both on the Continent and in Britain. 



