114 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



unlike Carpocapsa pomonella, it attacks only the outside of the fruit. 

 After considernble experience with both species, I have not yet seen 

 excessana penetrate to the core of the apple, and consume the pips, as 

 is the general habit of pomonella. The larva of the former conceals 

 itself, like other species of the group, under a dead, contracted leaf, 

 which it attaches to the skin of the apple, and, living under its shelter, 

 eats out shallow furrows, or sometimes good-sized patches on the 

 surface, but never, according to my experience, deep in the flesh. It, 

 however, destroys the fruit, and renders it unsaleable. I have lately 

 found these larvje feeding on several other, both indigenous and 

 introduced, plants. — W. W. Smith, Ashburton, N.Z. Jan. 2nd., 1892. 



Delay in Pupa. — Four pupae of Brephos notha, had last year com- 

 pleted a second winter in the pupa state, and were very nearly thrown 

 out as useless, because they had changed colour, from brown to black, 

 a change often implying decay, but which I took to mean partial 

 development of the imago, from some cause arrested, probably by 

 death. These have, however, just produced four imagines, after 

 being in pupa three winters. Petasia miheadosa has also emerged, 

 after i^assing five winters as a pupa. — T. A. Chapman, Firbank, 

 Hereford. March 28///, 1892. 



P.SELNOPHORUS BKACHYDACTYLUs. — With regard to the notes on this 

 species {Ent. Rec, iii.. pp. 33 and 63), vide Scottish Naturalist, iv., 

 p. 246, 1877-78, where I record the capture of two specimens near the 

 mouth of Glen Tilt, Perthshire. One was taken bv the late Sir. T. 

 Moncreiffe (see Sc. Nat.^ vol. ii., p. 203), and is, I suppose, still in 

 his collection. I think the other was taken by Mr. W. Herd, who has 

 nrobably still got it. There is no doubt about the species, but I did 

 not know that it was quite so rare. — F. Buchanan White. Perth. 



The T>epidoptera of Epping Forest {continued from p. 84). — 

 Tree trunks during the month (May) are very productive. In the Monks- 

 wood portion, Demas coryli, Dasychira pudibunda, Arctia mefidica and 

 Tephrosia consonaria ; in the Chingford section, Cidat'ia corylata, and 

 throughout the Forest, Nola cristulalis, Cuspidia psi, Amphidasys 

 betularia, T. binndulaj'ia, Eupithecia abbreinata and Coreinia propu^- 

 nata are to be found. Of these D. pudibunda^ C. psi, T. biunduhiria, 

 C. propugnata and C. corylata are abundant. The psi are usuallv 

 light coloured, but occasionally var. suffusa is met with. T. consonaria 

 may be taken in some numbers, but is very local. ISf. cristulalis 

 (which sits head downwards) is not very common, but is well dis- 

 tributed. They have been seen sitting on beech, hornbeam, birch 

 and oak, and are rather conspicuous on the two first named trees. 

 One larva was crawling over a beech trunk on July 25. Of A. 

 befularia, Arctia mendica, and E. ab)breTiata, only a few have been 

 picked up each year. One specimen of Eupifhecia dodoneata was 

 taken on the 19th May, 1890, at rest on an oak trunk in the Wake 

 Arms section. Light during the month is usually only productive of a 

 few E. vulgata, and Eubolia certata. Beating is, perhaps, an even more 

 productive mode of collecting at this time of the year than searching 

 the trunks. The four " hooktips " are sometimes plentiful, Drepana 

 cultraria occurring in Monkswood, lacertinaria and falcataria in the 

 Monkswood and Wake Arms sections, and hinaria throughout. The 

 males of cultraria flit about in the sunshine commonly, and on the 



