118 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



A Gynandromorph of Orgyia antiqua. — Karl Abrecht, of Saar- 

 briicken, figures and describes a gynandromorpb of O. antujita in the 

 Knt. Xeit., of March 22nd, which was taken in a garden where the 

 species is very abundant. It was sitting on the cocoon from which it 

 had just emerged. The pupa case showed the gynandromorphism 

 very distinctly. The left side is male and the right side female. The 

 line of separation is very apparent, and exactly median down the 

 body. The <^ side of the abdomen is brown and the 5 side gray, 

 sharply separated in the middle. The <? legs, especially the front 

 ones, are long and brown, the 5 legs short and gray. The J wings 

 are imperfectly developed, probably owing to difficulty in emergence 

 from the pupa. No examination of the genital organs has been 

 made.— H.J.T. 



:igiOTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



The Past Season, 1912. — Mr. Baker-Sly states in the last month's 

 number of the F!nt. liecord (p. 54) that Anthrocera fili pendidae was 

 common on Box Hill in the middle of last August. The species was 

 extraordinarily rare on the North Downs near Wrotham. In the one 

 locality on the Downs, which I visit with any frequency, it appeared to 

 be non-existent. I was particularly desirous of finding it as I am 

 attempting to hybridize Burnets. 



Hijihaecia nictitans has also been very rare near Tonbridge. I was 

 wanting spirit material for dissection and only obtained one specimen. 

 I could find no members of this genus in the Lake district during the 

 first fortnight of September, the weather, however, was extremely 

 unfavourable. One or two of my correspondents have noted the 

 scarcity of the insect this last season. Leucania lithanjyna was 

 perhaps more common than usual near Tonbridge. Ceiniostowa 

 lahurnella was extraordinarily rare again in the garden near Tonbridge, 

 we have been particularly atfiicted by this species in previous years. 

 This August the one or two laburnum trees which I searched appeared 

 to be rejoicing in complete immunity from the pest. — ^P. A. Buxton 

 (F.E.S.), Trinity College, Canibridge. 



Lyc.ena arion at Constantinople. — Count Michel Bukowky, 

 Secretary to the Austro-Hungarian Embassy here, has shown me a 

 remarkably large and fine female L. arion, which he took close to 

 Therapia on the European side of the Bosphorus early in July 1912. 

 The specimen, a light form, was the only one which he saw. I have 

 not seen L. arion alive yet but hope to take it here. Meanwhile 

 records of this species from the S. Eastern portion of its distribution 

 area which does not seem to extend much, if at all further South than 

 Mt. Olympus above Brusa, being few and far between, I have noted 

 this capture with Count Bukowky's kind permission. — P. P. Graves 

 (F.E.S.), Club de Constantinople. Febntarij 2St/i, 1913. 



Vanessa io. — On March 5th I saw a verj' good example of \'anrssa 

 io in my garden sporting in the sun. — H. G. Gregory, Westleigh, 

 Salisbury. March 8th, 1918. 



Collecting Notes in 1912. — During July, 1912, I was staying at 

 Rhosilli, a tiny village at the extremity of the Gower peninsula of 

 Glamorganshire. The country round includes miles of cliff top, 

 extensive moorland and sand-burrows, deep lanes and the great sandy 



