820 THE entomologist's record. 



Second Broods. — I took a freshly emerged <? of Niwniades tages 

 in mid-August, on the Blacltdown Hills south of Taunton in Somerset- 

 shire, and on August 20th near Wellington Monument on the same 

 range, a $ BrentJiis selene. Sugar has paid well here in September 

 and October. Among undoubted second broods, which rarely occur 

 in north-east Yorkshire, have been Noctua c-nif/nun commonly, and 

 two or three Leucania pallens. — A. S. Tetley, M.A., F.E.S., 22, 

 Avenue Road, Scarborough. Xovcijibcr 15th. 



Rugby Lepidoptera in 1911. — The following species have been 

 taken this year in the Rugby district. Fuller notes on these and 

 many other insects will be found in The Report of the Rtq/bij School 

 Xat. Hist. Soc, but perhaps these captures deserve wider circulation 

 than the pages of that Report. fleteroi/eiiea asella, not previously 

 recorded for Warwickshire ; two specimens beaten from oak and hazel 

 at Brandon, June 10th. Adscita statices was abundant in a very 

 circumscribed locality at Hillmorton. With it were found specimens 

 of a burnet, which agree in every particular with normal Anthrocera 

 fdipendulae. In appearance they are far removed from A. Idppocrepidis. 

 Yet a 3 was taken on June 12th and the species was quite over by 

 July 4th. Acronicta aliii. — A larva was obtained in Ryton Wood on 

 July 29th. It subsequently died. The species has occurred before in 

 the district. Boarmia rohoraria. — From June 27th no $^ were noted. 

 It has occurred not infrequently in the oak woods. Hijbemia 

 viariiinaria var. fascata. — A (J at Rugby on March 4th darker than 

 fig. 12, pi. 120, in "'South." We have no former recoids, but hitherto 

 varieties have been utterly neglected. Macaria liturata. — June 3rd 

 at Priucethorpe. This species has occurred before but infrequently. 

 Many species of the groups of smaller moths remain yet unidentified. 

 They will appear in the next lieport. Among them we note Adela 

 riifniiitrella, abundant at Priucethorpe from May 22nd onwards, at 

 flowers of Cardawine. This insect rarely settles. A specimen of 

 Spilonota roborana was taken at Newbold on July 20th. — P. A. and 

 D. A. J. Buxton, Fairhill, Toubridge. 



Agrius convolvuli in Cornwall. — The Convolvulus Hawk Moth, 

 with its eggs, was found by my sons, A. N. and D. C. Venning, 

 on September 2nd this year at Polzeath, North Cornwall, in a 

 garden near the sea. The eggs were on some (Jonvolvidus arvensis 

 close to the moth. Between 60 and 70 were collected. They all 

 batched out, except some half dozen, in between a week and 10 da3's. 

 About half were given to Colonel Le Marchant. He has, I under- 

 stand, only lost three or four larvae, and of ours, 23 are alive, of which 

 half at least are now full grown. The first of our larvfe went down 

 into earth on November 3rd, and four are now down (November 8th), 

 one turnmg into a chrysalis on the surface. Some are only about 

 half grown, one changed its skin for the last time yesterday, the 

 smallest only 1^^ inches long made its last change from a green to its 

 brown skin to-day. When first hatched the larvte were all pale green 

 with faint slanting lines, the reddish spots gradually developing. 

 After the first fortnight they varied considerably, some being much 

 more marked with dark lines than others. After the last change they 

 all turned brown or purplish green, and finally, became deep brown 

 with hardly any markings. They all went into a state of quiescence 

 for three or four days before changing their skins. This process of 



