44 5PHE entomologist's RECORD. 



I find, under the date of 25tli May, 1867 : " One ? cheer ophyllata larva, 

 Bishop's Wood," with an entry on the Monday (27th) " sent Buckler 

 supposed chcerojjhyllata larva." Now, he must have had some very 

 strong grounds for believing that a larva 2)icked up in in a ride of a wood 

 appertained to a particular moth, and what more strong than the 

 supposition that it was identical with that found by him the previous 

 year ; but, however this might be, the discovery was not one of a 

 single specimen, excepting upon that date. On the 28th is noted : 

 " About a dozen chxrophiillata larvae " (with no note of interrogation). 

 On the 29th : " Sent Buckler /t'e larva3 of cJuerophyllaia.'' On the 30th : 

 "Seven larva? cheer ojihyllata, Bishoi)' a Wood;" after which there are 

 no records until the 17th June, when the images began to emerge. 

 The diaries of the succeeding years record also larvee captures, and the 

 names of the entomologists to whom they were forwarded. I need not 

 trouble you with these, as the extracts I have given are sufficient to 

 show that this Avas a genuine discovery, and not the result of a single 

 fluke. — Sydney Webb, Maidstone House, Dover, 



PcECiLOCAMPA POPULi. — Referring to the note on this insect, ante, 

 vol. iii., p. 301, I may say that I have never seen it on the wing earlier 

 than the second week in November, in this locality. This was about 

 the time of its first appearance this autumn. During the third week, 

 upwards of forty were taken at gas-lamj)s, some of them worn. I did 

 not see a single specimen from the end of that week, until the end of 

 the second week in this month (December). Since then I have been 

 takino" the insect in fine condition. As I have before noticed this 

 sino-ularity of emergence in past seasons, I have come to the conclusion 

 that there are two distinct emergences every season in this locality, 

 irrespective of changes of weather. — J. Mason, Clevedon Court Lodge, 

 Somerset. December, 1892. 



The earliest record I have of P. poinili, was on the 1st of November, 

 when a specimen was taken on a lamp in the neighbourhood of 

 Eickmansworth. — A. W. Mera. December, 1892. 



Rare Insects at Clevedon. — In my previous note {ante, vol. iii., 

 p. 284), I mentioned how numerous insects were at ivy, I am sorry 

 to say that in consequence of a succession of keen frosty nights setting 

 in shortly after that date, they became scarcer, and the autumn collect- 

 inf has not been anything like so good as anticipated. I managed by dint 

 of continued searching to pick up a few Dasycampa rubigmea, also three 

 Xylina semibrunnea. The first ruhiginea was captured on ivy on the 

 9th of November, the last specimens (a pair) on the 1st of December. 

 Only once before (in 1887) have I taken the insect so late in the 

 season, then at sugar. I tried sugar several times during the last week 

 in November and first week in December, when the evenings were 

 mild, but without success. Single specimens of the following insect^ 

 have been taken for the first time this season in Clevedon, viz., Agroiis 

 cinerea var, ubscura (just emerged, at rest on the grass); Cucidlia 

 chamomiUie (at rest on fence) ; Aplecia advena and CamjAogramma 

 finviata at rest on a gas-lamp. — J. Mason, Clevedon Court Lodge, 

 Somerset, 



Lepiuoptera taken and bred in Swansea District in 1892. — 

 Durino- the past year, 1892, I have taken or bred the following insects 

 in the neighbourhood of Swansea. Unfortunately, I was away from 

 June 13th to July 9th, otherwise my list might have been much larger, 



