204 THE entomologist's record. 



volume wliicli, from a scientific point of view, is of the utmost value, 

 and which will have to iind a place on the book-shelves of all entom- 

 ologists who wish to keep their knowledge of matters entomological up 

 to date, and who wish to keep au courant with the members of this 

 Society. The work is inxblished at the Society's rooms, Hiliernia 

 Chambers, London Bridge, S.E., and its price is three shillings. — Ed. 



OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Winchester. — The weather is too bad for words. The only thing 

 worthy of note that I have done is to capture seven splendid Trlphaaia 

 suhsequa, one of which woke me in my bedroom at two in the morning 

 by settling on my face. I got uj) and boxed it on the window (most of 

 which was open), being too sleepy to look what it was — purely out of 

 revenge for being woken — meaning to slay it in the morning for rousing 

 me from my slumbers. I did slay it — blessing and not cursing. — (liev.) 

 G. M. A. Hewett. July 1894. 



Ireland. — Stainton's account of the larva of Eubolia mensnraria is: — 

 " Hardly known, feeds on grass." Between the loth and 25th of June 

 I found several larvae feeding exclusively on vetch by night. The 

 ground colour is dull flesh-colour with rather darker linear stripes on 

 the back and a row of black lateral stripes. On July 14th, along the 

 shores of L. Erne I took a hundred and fifty Acentrojms niiwns flying 

 about the flowers of P. pecthiatum. During this month I have found 

 larvaj of Pygaera curtula on almost every sallow bush. — W. E. H. 

 Porter, Belleisle, Lisbellaw, Co. Fermanagh. Jtily 24:th, 1894. 



Bainham, Essex. — Agrotis ohscura (rivnda) swarms here this year. 

 From July 5th, when I captured the first specimen, up to the present 

 time I have taken in all 96 specimens. Many of them are very finely 

 marked. They begin to come to the sugar almost as soon as it is put 

 on. My two best nights were July 21st and July 24th. On the former 

 I secured 27 and on the latter 17 specimens. All the specimens but 

 one were taken in my own garden ; that one was taken about a mile 

 away, but sugar applied in several directions around here failed to yield 

 any more. I have also noticed tliis year an extraordinary amount of 

 variation in A. exclamationis, and have taken several specimens with tlie 

 stigmata more or less united. My experience is too limited to enable 

 me to say whether the variation is out of the common, but I cannot 

 help thinking that many of the common species are given, here on the 

 marshy ground, to considerable deviation ; there is no doubt that some 

 are very different from the forms found on more elevated localities. I 

 have had some strange catches this year. I took Dyschorista snspecfa 

 (which, however, is fairly frequent at Brentwood) and also Erafitria 

 fnf<cmn(i (fmcnia) in my garden. I thought the latter was a wood insect 



we have no woods at all. Acidalia trigeminata also is not rare. — 



(Rev.) C. K. N. Burrows. July 31s/', 1894. 



SOCIETIES. 



At the meeting of The South London Entomological and Natural 

 History Society on June 14th, Mr. Adkin exhibited a very variable 



