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|OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Notes of the Season. — Epping Forest. — The following list of larvae 

 beaten here in June last may be of interest, although nothing of impor- 

 tance has been taken : on buckthorn Scotosia vetulata ; on oak Hemithea 

 thyi/iiaria, Eupiihecia abl>re: iata, Eui^onia angidaria ; on whitethorn 

 Bombyx neustria, Abraxas grossulariata, Hiinera pennaria ; on sallow 

 Hypsipetes eliitata ; on blackthorn Thecia betulx (several) ; and the 

 following very commonly on same : Nola cucullateila, Diloba cxruleo- 

 jefihala, Cos/nia trapezina, Phigalia pedaria, with some lio-ht vars. ; 

 Hybeniia de foliar ia, aurantiaria, rupicapraria, Rumia hitcvlata, and I 

 was also surprised to beat one larva of Biston Jiirtaria. Of imacrin^s 

 the following are worth noting, Lithosia aiinola, Drepana fakaiaria and 

 lacertinaria, Stauropns fagi ^.wA dark var. of $, Ne/neophila russula a.nd 

 Epio7ie advenaria. A visit to my old Cossus ground was disappointing, 

 for although I found about a dozen cocoons, every one had been cleared 

 out by the woodpeckers, which have this last year or two done 

 considerable damage to the Cossus. I was, however, pleased to find the 

 larvae of Vanessa cardui coxxvaxonVj on thistle heads, this larva has not 

 occurred since 1888, when I took it plentifully on the same ground. — 

 Ambrose Quail, 15, Stamford Hill. 



Northampton. — I recently sp^nt three months at Northampton, and 

 thought that some notes on lepitioptera of the district may be interestino-. 

 The Northampton Natural History Society publish a list of Macro- 

 lepidoptera occurring within a radius of fifteen miles of the town, and 

 there are recorded of Rhopalocera 51 species; Sphinges, etc., 17 

 species ; Bombyces, etc., 44 species, Noctu?e 144 species, and Geometr^e 

 125 species; making in all 381 species for which the locahties are 

 mostly given. Of the Rhopalocera the most noticeable are Leucophasia 

 sinapis, Vanessa c-album, Apatura iris., Thecia pruni and Carterocephalus 

 patiiscus. Of Sphinges Acherontia atropos., ChcBrocampa porcellus and 

 Macroglossa bombyltformis. Of Bombyces Psiliira monacha, Lasiocampa, 

 quercifolia and Notodonta chaonia. Of Noctuas Cuspidia alni, Cirrhcedia 

 .xerampelina, Hadeua advena and Cuciillia absynthii. Of Geometrse 

 Geometra papiliofiaria. The card of membership to this society is a 

 permit to collect on over a dozen estates in the neighbourhood ; and 

 I mention this as many provincial Natur^ History Societies would do 

 well to adopt the same idea where possible. I had little time for 

 collecting, but among others I took Viminia rumicis, Pterostoma 

 palpina (i), Ctlix glaucata, Eupithecia absynthiata, assiniilata, viilgata, 

 exiguata, consignata (?) and dodoneata ; the two latter are not recorded 

 in the Northampton list, which is therefore broughr up to 383 species. 

 — Id. 



Hereford. — I saw but did not capture a specimen of Colias edusa 

 here to-day, the first for a number of years. The frequency of Cynthia 

 cardui and abundance of Pliisia gamma and Plutella cruciferarum are 

 features of the season. — T. A. Chapman, Burghill, Hereford, fiine^th, 

 1892. 



Doncaster. — The following notes relating to lepidoptera for this district 

 begin in the middle of the season, without any attempt to recall the 

 earlier months. July has been only middling in both weather and 

 insects. Sugar has not been the great success here, that it seems to 



