224 THE entomologist's kecord. 



HOTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Leucania. albipuncta at Sandown. — I have much pleasure in re- 

 cording the re-occurrence of this insect here ; a fine specimen, 

 apparently fresh from the pujDa, visited my sugar on August ISth. As 

 this was on the same ground where I took one of my two specimens 

 last year, I hope the species has been breeding here, and that others 

 may yet fall to my lot. — Louis B, Pkout, Sandown. August 21st, 1894. 



Easter in Connemara. — I had a pleasant trip into Connemara 

 during the Easter holidays. The weather was beautifully fine, but too 

 dry in the evenings for moths to be very plentiful. Still I had very 

 fair sport at the sallows. The hotels at two places. Recess and Leenane, 

 are in the midst of sallow trees, which were at their best during my 

 visit (March 28th, to April 1st.). Taeniocampa gothica was plentiful, 

 and in great variety ; of T. gracilis only two or three came each even- 

 ing, with a few reddish forms ; T. stahilis (dark-banded), T. instahilis, 

 Pacliuohia rnhricosa, Xylocarnpa areola, Larentia multistrigaria, Eupithecia 

 pumilata, and E. abbreviata, all occurred sparingly. Larvje of Odonestis 

 potatoria were in great al)inidance. Since the beginning of April, the 

 weather has been very unfavourable, and I have taken little. I have 

 almost completely missed the larv^ of Melitaea anrinia, which were 

 common last year. — J. E. E. Allen, Galway. June Qth, 1894. 



Taeniocampa stab i lis in July. — As I was sugaring in the New 

 Forest on July 10th, I was surprised to take a fresh specimen of T. 

 stabilis. Is this not a very unusual occurrence ? Was it ever recorded 

 before, or was the sioecies known to be double-brooded ? I could at 

 the same time have beaten many larvae of the same insect. I took 

 Aqrotis obscura near here, on August 7tli. — W. J. Cross, Ely. August 

 dill, 1894. 



NOTES OF THE SEASON 1894. 



Short Notes from the Books of the Exchange Baskets. — 

 Major Still reports the capture of Deilephila livornica at rhododendron 



flowers, in the second week of June, at Horrabridge. Mr. 



Eenn writes from Lee on June 12th : — " Except the miserable weather 

 there is little to record ; whether insects are really scarce or not I can- 

 not say. They are not to be beaten out in the day-time, nor will they 

 fly at dusk, and such of my friends as have tried sugaring, have had 

 no result whatever. Some larvae are abundant, Tortrix viridana, for 

 instance, most of the oak trees in the woods near here being utterly 



defoliated." Mr. Mason, writing from Clevedon on June 22ncl, 



says : — " I have been fortunate enough to take two fine specimens of 

 CucuJlia charnoviillae at Lychnis dioica within the last week ; the only 

 previous capture that I know of in this locality was made in 1892." 



On June 23rd, Mr. H. Bickert on Jones reports from Liverpool : — 



" I have done little or no collecting since Easter, when (at Llangollen), 

 there were any quantity of Taeniocampa gothica, T. pulverulenta, T. 

 stahilis, T. instahilis, Pachnohia ruhricosa, T. mnnda, Orrhodia vaccinii, 

 Scopelosoma satellitia and Calocampa exoleta on the sallows. Anticlea 

 hadiata in fine condition and a few Selenia hilnnarin and Larentia multistri- 

 garia, were also ca})tured, and I managed to get a few specimens of 

 Taeniocampa opima." On June 3Uth, Kev. E. C. Dobree Fox writes 



