42 THE entomologist's record. 



plants), EpMjypijyhora scidulana, Conchjlis francillonana, and very many 

 others. At light, among many others, Cidaria miata, C. silaceata, 

 Eubolia cervinaria, Notodonta camelina, N. dictceoides, Cilix spinula, 

 Nonagria fulva, Anchocelis lunosa, Xanthia cerago, X. silago, X. 

 ferruginea, Catacola nupta, etc. The above are the result of a few- 

 evenings' collecting, as most of my time was devoted to Coleoptera. — 

 A. Ford, Claremont House, Upper Tower Eoad, St. Leonard's-on-Sea. 

 January IQth, 1893. 



CoLiAS EDUSA IN 1892. — I scc Mr. Battley, in his remarks on Colias edusa 

 in 1892, advocated the migratory theory to account for the appearance of 

 this species so generally and in such numbers. It seems to me to be much 

 too late in the day to discuss any other theory, and I thought entom- 

 ologists had been generally agreed for, at least, the jjast twenty-five 

 years, that such appearances could be satisfactorily accounted for in 

 no other way. But Mr. Battley further suggested that Hampshire 

 was the place of landing of all the early specimens which reached 

 England last year. I was certainly under the impression that the 

 landing had been effected at many places along the English coast ; that 

 it had extended over several days, probal)ly ; and that the specimens 

 did not all come over in a compact body to one part and disperse 

 themselves over the country afterAvards. I was so much occupied with 

 home work in the early summer, that I did not get out collecting very 

 much, but my friend, Mr. Norman Halls, who was staying at Walton- 

 on-the-Naze on the north-east Essex coast, early in June, says that he 

 was astonished one day to find edusa all over the place, even in 

 the streets, as he had seen none previously. They then seemed in a 

 very exhausted condition, and he was able to pick them up easily with 

 his fingers. The next day, however, they were much scarcer, and very 

 difficult to capture. Later in the year, the specimens resulting from 

 eggs laid by tlie immigrants, were very much commoner at various 

 places on the coast than inland, and I conclude, therefore, that a large 

 proportion of the females had laid eggs near the place where they 

 landed, ])efore proceeding further. Early in August, I was surprised 

 at the large number w^hich were to be seen on the salt marshes at the 

 flowers of Statics limonium and Aster tripolium.. C, hyale, which was 

 much scarcer, seemed to be more confined to cliffs, railway embank- 

 ments and clover-fields, and, curiously enough, I saw very few at 

 lucerne flowers, though I visited them constantly in the vain hope of 

 again taking A. lathonia. — W. H. Harwood, 2, Brooklyn Villas, 

 Colchester. 



Heliothis armigera. — In 1891, Mr. Boden bred Prodenia littoraUs 

 from imported tomatoes, and in 1892 another specimen was bred and 

 exhibited at the Lanes, and Cheshire Ent. Society's meeting in Decem- 

 ber. Early in 1892, Mr. Fox of the City of Lond. Ent. Soc. found 

 larvae feeding in tomatoes, and I suggested at the time that the larvae 

 were probably those of P. littoraUs. However, Mr. Fox bred tlie moths, 

 which he kindly gave to me, and they proved to be Heliothis armigera. 

 In connection witli this species, a paragraph by Prof. Smith is interesting. 

 He writes of the larva under the name of " The Corn worm " : — " This 

 pest, the larva of lldiothis armiger, has been more than usually abun- 

 dant during the j^ast season in New Jersey. Its work on corn is well 

 known, and is well illustrated in the plate accompanying this number. 

 The ears were picked up at a husking in Cumberland County, and they 



