196 THE entomologist's record. 



suggests " migration " as an explanation of their appearance, as they 

 have never been observed since. Of course a much better chance of 

 finding out something about their appearance would have occurred if 

 the specimens had been recognised shortly after their capture. But 

 after twenty years there is little chance of making a satisfactory guess. 



Mr. King, of 14, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, has created quite a 

 record in taking a large number of Erotesis baltica at Chippenham Fen, 

 and offers to send specimens to " Neuropterists who desire the species." 

 Previously it was known as British by four specimens, taken by Dr. 

 Wheeler in Wicken Fen, in 1877, and one by Mr. Porritt, in 1891, at 

 the same place. 



Mr. Ward- Jackson records the capture of DeilepJiila livornica at 

 Lyndhurst, on June 4th. Mr. Phipps, Plusia inoneta from Tunbridge 

 Wells, on July 13th ; whilst another is recorded by Mr. Reid as captured 

 at Alton on July 12th. Deiopeia pulchella at St. Leonards on May 

 28th last, by Mr. Esam, and another at Brighton by a boy last month 

 (July). Lyccetia arion was captured at Selcombe (Salcoml^e ?), South 

 Devon, during the first half of July by Mr. Prideaux ; whilst Calli- 

 morpha hera has again been taken by Mr. Jager in its old haunts. 



Mr. Beadle records eighty specimens of Erebia cassiope on the after- 

 noon of June 2ist in the Cumbrian mountains, near Borrowdale. 



^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Notes of the Season. — Wicken Een} — My success at Wicken last 

 year tempted me to make another trip to the same locality with my son 

 Bertie, and we spent three weeks there, commencing from July 27th. 

 The local collectors reported an excellent season up to date, several 

 species having occurred abundantly on some evenings, as Meliana 

 flamiuea, Nascia cilialis, etc. ; whilst such local species as Cuspidia 

 strigosa and Cymatophora ocularis had been rather more common than 

 usual. Bisulcia ligustri had turned up ; Aplecta advena had been 

 abundant, but Mr. Houghton informed me that he doubted whether I 

 should get ravida this year, as it was out fully a month earlier than last 

 year, and it was, he believed, over. This, I found, was only too true, 

 one specimen only being allured by the light a day or so after my 

 arrival. My troubles meteorologically were legion. During the first 

 week, there was a north-east wind blowing, the sky was generally clear, 

 radiation was excessive, and in about an hour after sunset there was a 

 thick dew, sometimes changed into a ground fog all over the Fen. Of 

 course, on such nights, nothing came to light and nothing to sugar. 

 On two nights in this week it rained and was pitch dark, and then we 

 got a heap of moths at light, although sugar still failed. The second 

 week the wind got more westerly, but the sky remained clear as ever. 

 There was less radiation, but a full moon prevented the light working, 

 and only on one night during this week did we have any real success. 

 Sugar was still an absolute failure. Dusking, however, paid well, and I 

 took a very large number of specimens, chiefly Geometry and 

 ToRTRiCES, in this way with the net. The last week the wind was 



1 Read at a meeting of the City of London Entomological Society, Thursday, 

 September ist, 1892. 



