298 THE entomologist's record. 



smaller specimens, the band almost always complete. The partial 

 double-broodedness of this species, referred to by Messrs. Robson and 

 Finlay {ante, p. 257), in a much more northern locality, is rather additional 

 evidence of my statement, as it is well known that many species which 

 are distinctly double-brooded in our southern counties, are only partially 

 so, or otherwise distinctly single-brooded in more northern localities. 

 The Isle of Wight offers a strange illustration of the complete double- 

 broodedness ot another species, Acidalia enmtaria, which appears to be 

 rarely so elsewhere, in the localities I have worked, where the species 

 occurs rather comrnonly, — at Deal, Higham, Strood, Gravesend, etc. 

 In the Isle of Wight, Mr. Hodges gets two distinct broods in June and 

 August, whilst in the former localities, specimens appear continuously 

 from the beginning of July to the first week in August, but there is n& 

 differentiation of the broo Is as m the Isle of Wight. I notice that 

 Newman in his British Moths, treats C. silaceata as double-brooded, and 

 there appears to be no doubt that the distinct double-broodedness 

 noticeable in the south, is reduced to partial double-broodedness or even 

 single-broodedness in more northern localities, not only in this, but in 

 many other species. — J. W. Tutt. 



The EuPiTHECiiE in County Sligo. — Tho. Ei/pithed(e I have taken 

 this year, are as follows : — The earliest to appear was E. ahbreviata 

 at sallow blossoms, on March 27th. In April, I bred E. exiguata from 

 larvae collected the previous autumn, and obtained larvse of E. sobrinata 

 beaten from juniper wliilst looking for Thera sifnulafa larvie. May 

 produced E. venosata, E. nanata, E. pumilata, E. coronata, E. dodoneata 

 (flying at dusk along hawthorn hedges, and, I believe, not previously 

 recorded from Ireland), E. vulgata and E. virgaureata. In June, 

 E. safyrata and its var. callunaria were abundant on moors, and E. 

 nanata much more so than in the previous month. E. pumilata also 

 appeared on the moors, earlier ones having been taken on the low lands. 

 E. isogrammata, E. exiguata, E. subinnbrata (occurs on lower slopes of 

 the mountains, where scabious is plentiful), E. lariciaia, E. amsirictata, 

 E. pulchcllata (twelve specimens only, and very worn). In July, E. 

 debiliata was abundant in woods where the undergrowth is bilberry. The 

 ])lace to search for this species is on the trunks of large holly trees growing 

 amongst the bilberry. They are exceedingly difficult to see, being 

 almost exactly the colour of the bark, on which they rest ; but a tap with 

 a stout stick disturbs them, and they are netted easily. The second 

 brood of E. pumilata are smaller and darker than the tirst, E. tenuiata, 

 the second brood of E. coronata, E. viimitata, and E. rectajigiilata. In 

 August, the only fresh species were, E. absytithiata and E. centaureata, 

 which completed my list. E. isogrammata in the larval stage was 

 exceedingly abundant on a large Clematis vitalba, growing along a 

 high wall at a neighbour's house. It is the only plant of this species 

 which 1 know of in the whole county, and was evidently planted there 

 many years since. Does the larva of this specits feed on anything 

 else? I have taken the insect at a considerable distance from the plant. 

 — P. H. Russ, Culleenamore, Sligo. October, 189 [. 



Agrotis trux. — Among some odds and ends lorwarded me by Mr. 

 Gregson unplaced in his cabinet, was a mutilated specimen of an 

 Agrotis, found in a fruit warehouse at Liverpool. This turns out to be 

 A. trux, a species once in our lists, but I think properly struck out as 

 an accidental importation. — S. Webb, Dover. 



