14^ THE entomologist's RECORD. 



mind was rather that meteorological causes themselves might have some 

 influence, and that, at any rate in the depth of winter, the full vitality 

 and fertility of the females in certain groups might perhaps only be 

 maintainable at the expense of some of the not-indispensable organs of 

 locomotion, and I still think that the Amphidasydae, all of which, with 

 the excejjtion of Nyssia zonaria, have similar resting habits, lend some 

 colour to this view, Mr. Studd seems to doubt whether the wings of 

 the female ^4. hetidaria are, as a rule, better develoj^ed than those of A. 

 strataria. I may be mistaken, but I am certainly under the impression 

 that the latter species is far weaker-winged than the former, although 

 the size of the wings is not greatly diminished ; it is also very liable to 

 malformation and I suspect that it is almost entirely unfitted foe flight. 

 My experience of Hyhernia marginaria and A. aeactdaria has always been 

 that they are practically contemporaneous, not, as appears to be Mr. 

 Studd's experience, that the latter is a month later than the former. I 

 am not sure that I know the female of Tortricodes hyemana; Mr. Tutt 

 (/.c, J}, viii.) cites it as apterous, but this may be only a lapsus calami* 

 Among the Tineina the Epiyraphiidae show an interesting parallelism 

 with the Amphidasydae. — Louis B. Prout, 12, Greenwood Road, 

 Dalston. April ISth, 1894. 



Endromis versicolor. — I had for the first time this sjiring the 

 opportunity of noticing that this si^ecies breaks oi^en one end of its cocoon, 

 and forces the anterior part of the jjupa well out, many days before the 

 emergence of the imago. Knowledge of this fact may be of use to those 

 looking for pupa3 of the species, as the dark colour makes them very 

 conspicuous objects. — F. B. Newnham, Church .Stretton, Salop. May 

 2nd, 1894. 



NoTODONTA TREPiDA. — I have a few pupffi of this moth, reared from 

 ova laid in May, 1892, which are only now ])ro(lucing imagines ; not a 

 single imago from this brood emerged in 1893. — lb. 



Eggs of Lobophora carpinata. — These are remarkable, being very 

 flat and in outline an irregular oval, much the shape of a small acacia bean ; 

 their colour is red with a yellow band round the side margin. Has 

 anyone seen the eggs of other species of Lobophora ? Are they also 

 ornamented with a stripe round the circumference ? — W. F. de V. . 

 Kane, Kingstown. Ajjril 25th, 1894, 



Sound produced by Neukonia popularis. — The following extract 

 from a letter recently received by me from Mr. J. T. Fountain of Bir- 

 mingham, relates a curious observation on the above subject, made by 

 that gentleman last year, when sugaring on the borders of Epping 

 Forest, not far from Ponders End. " Whilst visiting the sugar, Ave had 

 to keep crossing the corner of a meadow. I carried the lamp, and my 

 son the net ; suddenly I heard a slight sound near my feet — ' nick,' 

 ' nick ' — as if someone had touched the edges of two knives together. 

 Turning the light in the direction of the sound, I saw a moth flying 

 over the grass, which my son captured, and which proved to be N. popu- 

 laris. During the two evenings we spent there, this incident recurred 

 23 times ; on every occasion l)ut one, whenever we heard the sound, we 

 netted a moth ; on the exceptional occasion, not seeing any insect flying, 



• Not exactly a lapsus calami. Although the female is not fully apterous, 

 the females in my collection have the win^s very much less developed than are 

 those of the males. — Ed, 



