NOTES ON COLLECTING, ETC. 35 



The greatest drawback to the study of the group has previously been 

 the want of a suitable and exhaustive text-book, but now that Mr. J. 

 E. Robson, of Hartlepool, is publishing a Monograph of the Pterophorina 

 in parts, which contains almost everything at present known about 

 our British species, such an excuse does not exist ; and as the price of 

 each part is only 6d., and can be obtained by simply sending the stamps 

 to Mr. Robson, the poorest collector can take up the group with some 

 l)rospect of rapidly becoming conversant with the species contained in 

 it. — J. W. TuTT. yatiuary, 1892. 



Notes of the Season of 1891. — Shirley. — My last outing this 

 year was to Shirley, sweeping for larvae. In two hours I took over 150 

 larvje of Eupithecia /niiiufafa, E. nanata, Anarta 7/iyrtilli, Agrotis 

 porphyrea, etc. — Henry J. Turner. November i()th, 1891. 



HiilL — Sugar has been a failure here. There has only been one 

 good insect taken off sugar this season in this district,-to my knowledge, 

 and that was Agrotis ravida, captured by Mr. Hame. — J. W. Boult. 

 November -^rd, 1891. 



Boifleet. — I have paid one or two visits to my collecting ground at 

 Benfleet. In heads of Sea-aster I found traces of larvae, but no laivce 

 of Catoptria cemulana ; a large number of larvse of Semasia rufillmia 

 were found in heads of Daucus carota, and many cases of Coleophora 

 artetnisicolella on sea wormwood. I was not fortunate enough, how- 

 ever, to find C. vibicigerella. — F. G. Whittle. December i^^h, 1891. 



West Wickham. — I made several visits to West Wickham during the 

 last season, and a list of my best captures may prove interesting to 

 some of your readers : — Geometr/E. — Ennomos til/aria and E.fuscan- 

 taria (on lamp posts), E. angu/aria, Boarmia consortaria, Tephrosia 

 crepHSCi/iaria, T. biundularia, T. extersaria, T. puuctulata, Ephyra trili- 

 nearia, Eupisteria heparata, Acidalia subsericeata, A. emargi/iata, Corycia 

 iami/iata, Macaria lituraia, Minoa eiiphorbiata, Lobophora lobulata, 

 Scotosia dubitata. Cuspidate. — Platypteryx lacertula^ P. falcula, P. 

 ujiguicula. NocTU^. — Cyinatophora flavicornis, Cuspidia aceris, JDip- 

 terygia pinastri, Epiuida vimina/is, Apleda nebulosa, Anarta myrtilli, 

 Abrostola urtica. By sugaring Cymatophora diluta, Thyatira batis, 

 Acronycta nonicis, Agrotis prcecox, Anchocelis litura, A. htnosa, A. pista- 

 cifia, Gonoptera libatrix, XaJithia citrago, X. cerago, X. silago, X. fer- 

 ruginea, Amphipyra pyramidea, A. iragopogonis and Catocala niipta. 

 Sugar proved very attractive during the last fortnight in September, and 

 all common insects absolutely swarmed. — Clifford Wells, Hurstfield, 

 The Avenue, Gipsy Hill, S.E. [Is not Agrotis prcj^cox a strange species 

 to be taken in West Wickham ? — Ed.] 



Demas corvli, etc. — Is B. coryli double-brooded ? I took a ? on 

 20th August. The ova from her hatched early in September, some not 

 half-grown. I started them on beech, but as the leaves are now all off, 

 I am giving them nut. I thought when I took the moth it was a proof of 

 double-broodedness, as they are out here early in June, but from the length 

 of time these larvce have been feeding (two months !), coupled with the 

 fact that full-grown larvae were beaten here early in September, I think 

 it must be a case of retarded emergence on the part of the captured ? , 

 or otherwise only a slight tendency to double-broodedness such as is 

 shown occasionally in some other species. I find the mines of Phyllo- 

 cnistis saligna pretty plentiful about here this year, and bred a nice lot. 



