92 THE entomologist's record. 



Noctua glareosa and Anchocelis litura simply swarmed at sugar, but tliis 

 year I have not met with a single specimen of the two latter, and only 



one or two C. vctusta.^' Mr. J. J. F. X. King (Glasgow) writes on 



Dec. lUth : — " My experience of the season (1894) has been that insects 

 were very scarce. I spent from the middle of June until the end of 

 Augiist in Ireland — Dublin, Athlone, Cong, Westport and Ballinesloe — 

 but found that, owing to the prevailing high winds and the absence of 

 sunshine, imagines of all orders were wanting. Tliis applied not only 

 to the Lepidoptera, but also to the Neuroptera and Orthoptera. I have 

 spent my holidays in Ireland before, but never with such a poor return. 

 In Scotland the work has been just as bad. Collecting in this district has 

 been very poor, if I except captures of Fhibalapteryx lapidata, of which 



I took a grand series in three widely separate localities." Capt. 



Robertson (Coxhorne) writes on Dec. 11th: — "There is nothing to 

 report except the capture of a female Petasia cassinea at rest on Nov. 



1st, and Xylhid seviibrunnea at ivy on Nov. 18th." Mr. W. B. 



Thornhill (Castle Cosey) writes on Dec. 14th: — "I have only had two 

 season's experience of collecting here (or indeed anywhere), but the 

 absence of certain insects dui'ing the past season which I took commonly 

 the season before (without working nearly so hard as last season), 

 api)ears to me curious, and I shall be glad to know whether others met 

 with the same experience with regard to the same insects. In 1893, 

 I took Macroglossa stellatarum, Heptalus vellcda var. galUcus, Charaeas 

 graminis, Helotropha leucostigma and var. fibrosa, Chortodes arcuosa, 

 Aqrotis saucia, Noctua triangulum, N. brimnea, N. baia, Tryphaena 

 fimbria, Hadena dentina, Plusia pndchrina, Ellopia prosapiaria, Chora 

 lichcnuria, Melanthia albicillata, Cidaria fnUata all in more or less num- 

 bers. This past season I have not taken any of them, although I 

 worked this localit}' twice as much. Comparatively speaking, Trijphaena 

 ■pronuba and Xylophnsia monoglypha did not show themselves this 

 season ; while several others showed in fair numbers, which did not 



appear, in 1893." Mr. W. F. de V. Kane (Monaghau) writes on 



Dec. 14th :— " I should be glad of information as to the inland 

 distribution of Miana Jiterosa or Miana b/coloria and its vars. Are they 



ever found in hilly districts or wet moors inland in Great Britain?" 



The Rev. E. C. Dobree Fox (Castle Moreton) writes on Dec. 17th: — 

 " With regard to the appearance of Zygaena trifolii at Swanage during 

 the first week in August, I was surprised myself when I first took it at 

 this date. This was in 1892, in the same locality where I found it 

 again this year. On both occasions I took pupee, which emerged a few 



days later.'"' Mr. F. G. Whittle (Southend) writes on Dec. 24th :— 



" I received on October 15th, from a friend at Wandsworth, a few adult 

 larvae and one pupa of Abraxas grossidariata, from which, within the 



last week or so, I have bred four moths." Mr. Mason (Clcvedon) 



writes on Dec. 31st:— "I have seen no specimens of Dasycampa ridii- 

 qinca this autumn, neither has Poecilocampa popidi visited the gas- 

 lamps. DasypvJia Umpli and Petasia cassinea seem to have deserted 

 this locality also. Single specimens of Evgonia tillaria and Hivura 

 pennaria are the sum total of the "thorns," a pair of Hyberitia dcfo- 

 liaria appeared at the lamps, which have also attracted scores of 

 Cheimatobia briimata. I noticed a pair in copidd there. I presume the 

 male had carried his mate from an adjoining hedge to enjoy the 

 light." Mr. Mera (Forest Gate) writes on Jan. 5th: — "A few 



