NOTES ON COLLECTING. IQG' 



the good fortune to capture a, speciraen of this rare moth in fine 

 condition. I am not collecting moths this season, but being struck by 

 the size and peculiar flight of the insect, which seemed unusual for 

 any white moth of my acquaintance, I gave chase and when it settled 

 secured it to give to my brother. A cursory glance in the chip box 

 (in which I had placed it when settled) showed the moth to be of 

 the " footman " family, but although the insect seemed familiar to me 

 I did not at once recognise it, and a few minutes after handed it to 

 my brother remarking that I had got a prize for him. He at once 

 identified the moth and desired me to retain it. — S. G. Castle 

 EussELL, 14, Waldegrave Park, Twickenham. 



LOPHOPTERYX CARMELITA IN NORTHUMBERLAND.- — On May 12th I 



was fortunate in finding a S and a ? of the above species on the 

 trunk of a birch tree, the moths were about four inches apart. 

 The S was rather worn but the 2 in good condition. I boxed 

 the latter and by the 15th she had deposited 13 eggs. I then killed 

 it as I was anxious to have the specimen set up, this being a record 

 for this country. The eggs were fertile and the larvffi emerged on the 

 27th and 28th May. The specmaens were taken near the Tyne Valley,. 

 South of Carbridge, which place is about 17 miles West of 

 Newcastle. — G. Nicholson, 2G, Lancaster Street, Newcastle. 



Gloucestershire Lepidoptera. — Since my notes in a previous 

 volume, the following species, apparently unrecorded for the county, 

 have been captured by myself. Tischeria angusticnllda, June 5th, 1912, 

 flying in the evening among Bosa canina in this neighbourhood ; 

 Chrijsorlijsta schiankella, June 15th, 1911, at dusk over marshy ground ; 

 and (j-eleckia scalella, June 2nd, 1913, resting on a lichen-covered oak, 

 the last two occurring in the Dean Forest district. — W. B. Davis, 3, 

 Rosebank Villas, Churchfield Eoad, Stroud, Glos. June 1th, 1913. 



Colias edusa. — Are we in for an ediisa-yea,v? T saw one on June 

 2nd at Godstone, Surrey, my friend, Mr. M. Robinson, took one at 

 Reigate on June 3rd, and on June 9th 1 took a (^ at Chailey, Sussex. 

 —A. E. Tonge (F.E.S.), Aincroft, Reigate. Jime dth. 



At Ascot, on June 2nd, I took a freshly emerged Colias eJtifta, a- 

 large and pale specimen, and on June 3rd I saw three more at Horsley. 

 T have also seen several worn Pi/rameis atalanta and P. canliti. — A. W. 

 Buckstone, 18, Burlington Lane, Chiswick. June lOt/i. 



On June 4th I saw a specimen of ('alias edusa flying near a clover 

 field at Aldermaston. — J. Clarke, 7, Castle Crescent, Reading. June 

 lOtli. 



I have seen several Colias edusa, and it looks as if the continental 

 things are coming over this season. — S. G. Castle-Russell, 14,. 

 Waldegrave Park, Strawberry Hill, Middlesex. June 15tJt. 



Colias edusa in 1912. — ^It may be of interest to put on record my 

 experiences with the above species in 1912. My friend, Mr. E. P. 

 Sharp, took two S s and two $ s fresh out, at Abbott's Wood, on July 21st,. 

 and I subsequently found that other collectors had taken a number of 

 3 s near Eastbourne in the previous week. On July 24th I saw two 3' s 

 on Eastbourne front in the morning, and two more on my way to Beachy 

 Head. On my arrival there I took one ^ and one 5 var. helice, both fresh 

 out, and saw another var. Jielice flying madly with the wind and quite 

 impossible of capture. On the 25th a journey with Mr. Sharp to a 

 field of clover and other flowers, a good way out over the Downs, was 



