60 THE entomologist's record. 



pared with N. confltia var. obsoleta, to which it, of course, bears a 

 super ficial resemblance, owing to them being parallel varieties. Mr. 

 Fenn at the meeting- suggested that " the removal of the dark scales 

 between the stigmata, tended to make it look like the Shetland examples." 



^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Winter Notes. — Pitcaple, N.B. — As I still want a few pupse of 

 Viviinia viyricce for my correspondents, I went out one day and in a 

 it^ hours picked up a dozen ; the snow was very deep and the cold 

 intense, so I had to give it up. This is the only collecting I have 

 attempted so far. — W. Reid. February ?^t/i, 1892. 



It may be interesting to record that on the 14th inst., happening to 

 glance at an inverted bell-jar in which I keep my pupae during the 

 winter, I discovered that a female Dasychira pudibunda had emerged. 

 The insect has not been forced in any way, but has been kept through 

 the winter in a cold room in which a fire is never lighted. I always 

 keep my pupse in this room, but have never known an insect emerge 

 so early before. — Henry A. Hill, 132, Haverstock Hill, N.W. 



It is quite astonishing the great amount of cold P. popiili is able to 

 endure. During the extreme hard weather of last winter /(?/Zif// never 

 deserted his post, viz., under the lamp, and on one occasion eight 

 specimens were taken when it was freezing hard, and so slippery that 

 it was nearly impossible to prevent the small ladder from slipping. — 

 John H. Still. December, 1891. 



I can fully endorse Mr. Still's remarks regarding the hardiness of P. 

 pcpuli. Last winter, 1890, I took several specimens when the thermo- 

 meter registered nearly 28° of frost. This season has been a more 

 prolific one for them, November 20th being the best night I have had. 

 I took sixteen specimens on that occasion, at the same time I noticed 

 Cheimatobia brianaia, boreafa, and Oporabia diliitata flying about the 

 lamps in very large numbers. During October the ivy bloom was the 

 most productive I have ever known it, the usual common autumnal 

 species being excessively abundant thereon, with a fair percentage of 

 C. vetusta, exoleia, and Epunda Jiigra. — G. A. Booth. December, 

 1891. 



Acronycta (Cuspidia) leporina. — With reference to Dr. Chap- 

 man's paper in the Record for this month, the following may be of 

 interest. In this district the larva of A. leporina is, to my knowledge, 

 only found on birch, and the white form is quite as common as the 

 yellow. As to O. a?itiqi/a not being common on birch, here it is fre- 

 quently beaten out in all its stages, in very large numbers, at the same 

 time as A. leporina is taken, and appears to prefer birch to anything 

 else. — Geo. A. Harker, Liverpool. February iqth, 1892. 



The "RecorT)" Exchange Club. — It is now two years since we 

 started our " Exchange Club," and it may do us no harm to expose 

 some of our weaknesses and success. When we first started, we 

 numbered thirteen baskets, each with twelve members (including my- 

 self) and two other boxes called the " Waste box " and the " Exhi- 

 bition box " respectively. Sufficient members were quickly got 

 together, and as a great number of these were unknown to me, even 



