272 THE ektomologist's record. 



hopeless muddle as to which names should be applied to the three allied 

 species — (1) the golden-rod feeder, (2) the Anthemis feeder, which used 

 to occur on waste gi'ound in Westcombe Park, (3) the narrower- 

 winged triple-hooded species, rather common on the chalk hills. Lord 

 Walsingham appears to unite the two first as iviplicitana and call the 

 third erigerana. That there are three species appears certain. 



The Rev. A. Nash records " a very dark variation of Ayrotts puta 

 at sugar." Is this as usual the 2 thus designated ? 



^f-OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



AcHERONTiA ATROi'os AT Seaford. — I have to rccord the capture of 

 a specimen of Acherontm atropos on the beach at Seaford, in Sussex, 

 on the 2nd inst. The insect was captured by a boy and taken to my 

 friend, Dr. Evans of Seaford, who is interested in entomology. Several 

 specimens of Colias edusa have been seen and taken at Seaford and its 

 neighbourhood this autumn. — Henry A. Hill, 132, Haverstock Hill, 

 Hampstead, N.W. September Idth, 1893. 



Saturnia pavonia in August. — This is truly a remarkable season 

 so far as the times of appearance of insects are concerned. At the 

 end of August last a male specimen of Saturnia pavonia emerged from 

 a pupa, which I thought would liave lain over till next spring. The 

 larvae were taken in 1892 at Tenby, and all the imagines except six 

 emerged in April and May last, one of the said six coming out in 

 August, as above stated. — Henry A. Hill, 132, Haverstock Hill, 

 Hampstead, N.W. September Idth, 1893. 



Oberea oculata at Wicken. — I took a fine specimen of this hand- 

 some Longicorn at "Wicken, on July 28th, on the wing at dusk. 

 Fowler gives no record since 1883. — F. Bouskell, Lansdowne Eoad, 

 Stoneygate, Leicester. 



Colias edusa at Exmouth. — I have found Colias eduaa very abun- 

 dant at Exmouth, South Devon, not only on the cliffs, but almost in the 

 town itself, and I was fortunate in captining four of the light var. helice, 

 amongst which was a dark buff specimen Avitli the orange spot on the 

 hind wing of an unusually large size. I have neither seen nor heard of 

 C. hyale this year ; I heard from a young collector that he had taken 

 thi'ee Vanessa cardui near Exmouth, but I did not capture the species 

 myself. — Arthur Keays, Upwood Tower, Caterham Valley. 



Apparent dearth of Diurni. — Has any suggestion been made as to 

 the probable cause of the extraordinary dearth of Diurni and of larvai 

 this summer ? With regard to the latter, I have been unable to find 

 any in places that last year at about the same time aljounded with 

 Cerura vinvia, SmerintJms pjoptdi, Notodonta ziczac, Ta'niocampa stabilis, 

 T. (jothica, etc., while the sole result of diligent searching of what were 

 formerly reliable nettle beds, is a solitary V. atalanta larva. With 

 regard to Diurni, my experience has been, jjerhaps, more extraordinary. 

 In the course of three visits to Abbott's Wood I saw perhai^s twenty or 

 thirty, of which one was a Colias edusa male, and two were V. atalanta. 

 On the slope of Beachy Head, which last year SAvarmed with Lyca'na 

 corydon and Salyriis semele, I have this August seen about half-a-dozen 

 of tlie former and one of the latter, during three visits, two of which 

 were early in August, and one late in that month. On August 2Uth, 



