40 THE entomologist's record. 



I noticed a Choleva ruu out as I turned it over with my stick, and 

 before I had finished my investigation I secured one Homalota occulta, 

 and about 50 specimens of the Choleva genus, comprising a series of 

 C. grandicollis, C. fnsca and C. h'rhi/i, and also several C. fristis. On 

 Boxing-day the weather being so very severe, I went again to Eich- 

 mond Park, ostensibly to bring home the fungus I had looked through 

 before, in the hope of finding some more beetles, especially, as by this 

 time it would be very rotten, and the quantity of beetles in fungus is 

 o-enerally in the same ratio as its putridity. The fungus had to be 

 thawed before looking through, but it yielded a good series of 

 Homalota occulta, and also TryphyUus snturalis, Quedins cruentus, &c. 

 The insects taken under bark were few and far between, the best 

 beino- Opihis mollis and Quedins scitus, and from a small piece of hard 

 fungus I obtained Cis nitidus and Cis micans. — H. HE.iSLER, 17, 

 Danby Street, Peckham. 



Tephrosia CREPusciLARiA IN SEPTEMBER. — Is not September an 

 unusual time for this spevies to emerge from pupa ? On May 26th, 

 1891, I received a large batch of ova from Mr. Mason of Clevedon. I 

 cannot find any note in my diary as to the time of their hatching, nor 

 of the date on which the first larvae turned down, but the majority 

 were down by the end of August, although a few fed much later — the 

 last larva till as late as the middle of October. In all, I obtained about 

 forty pnpa% which I kept out of doors. Of these, five produced moths 

 of the pale (summer) form in early September. Unfortunately, a large 

 percentage of the remaining pupa? died in the following spring, but 

 about eight produced well-formed moths in April, 1892. These were 

 all of the ochreous form, and slightly larger than those tv-hich emerged 

 in September. I did not try to breed again from any of them, but I 

 am ijuzzled as to Iioav the larvae would have acted had I succeeded in 

 obtaining ova from the September emergences ; when they would have 

 hatched ; when the larvaB would have fed up ; and which form (light 

 or ochreous) would they have produced ? — F. H. Wolley Dod, CrowhiU, 

 Innerwick, E. Lothian. January 24:th, 1893. [It is quite the usual 

 thino-, in our southern counties, for T. crepuscularia to act as did those 

 of Mr. Wolley Dod. Almost every batch of ova of this species produces 

 some larva? which feed np and emerge in the autumn (from July to 

 September), these being of a very pale gTey type, whilst the remainder go 

 over the winter and appear in the spring being of an ochreous coloration. 

 The autumn specimens (I have had them in July and August) lay ova 

 at once. These feed up rapidly, often overtaking their uncles and 

 aunts ; pupate at about the same time ; and emerge, as a rule, the 

 following spring, although a few very frequently emerge in captivity 

 in September and October. These lay ova at once, and the larva? pro- 

 duced try to pupate before the winter. If they fail, they are killed off, 

 the larva not being able to hybernate. In nature, September emergen- 

 ces are most unusual. — En.] 



CoLiAS edtjsa in SCOTLAND. — In reading the City of London Entom- 

 ological and Natural History Society's Eeport for 20th December, which 

 appeared in the January number of the Entojnologisfs Record, etc., 

 Mr. Battley mentioned seven Coltas edusa that were captured in Scot- 

 land. He gives Perth as the northern limit. I have pleasure in giving 

 a record of its appearance still further north. Mr. Tytler, Woodside, 

 Aberdeen, caught a very good specimen flying in sunshine at Scotstown 



