238 THE entomologist's record. 



few hundred yards of the ground where Mr. Bonney used to find the 

 larva?. Yet, though over the ground very frequently, I have never seen 

 a single specimen of either larva or imago. This piece of ground has 

 changed considerably since those days ; a part of it is now a field, the 

 rest a thick covert ; and the bilberry, which was the food supply, has 

 had to give way to larch and pine. Perhaps a Chase fire was the cause 

 of its extermination. I can assure you that if the data with Mr. 

 Machin's eight specimens were right, there can be no doubt about these 

 eight at any rate being genuinely British. — Basil Burnett, Park House, 

 near Eugeley. March 2oth, 1895. 



" A Looker-on " seems exercised in liis mind as to the authenticity of 

 the Lasiocampa ih'cifolia in Mr. Machin's collection. Several members 

 of the Bonney (not Bonny) family took this insect in some quantities 

 about the years 1858-62, or thereabouts. And it was from them that 

 E. Weaver (perchance one of " Looker-on's " names of authority) 

 obtained his knowledge of the insect. The Bonney's are well known 

 and highly respected in this town, and one of them has a cosmopolitan 

 reputation as a geologist. I myself took the larva? in 1879 and 1882 

 (ride, Entomologist, vol. xvi., p. 260). It was always a very local insect 

 and restricted to a small area ; probably owing to the fact that the 

 Chase is constantly being fired, and this particular patch apparently 

 esca^ied, judging from the appearance of the bilberry and heather 

 before it was enclosed. This patch is now partly ploughed up and 

 partly turned into a fir plantation, and the probability is that the insect 

 is extinct. I can assure all entomologists who have L. ilirifolia labelled 

 " Bonney," that they may rely on their being genuinely British. The 

 Bonney's seemed to do comparatively little exchanging ; facilities for 

 doing so were not great in those days. When looking over the family 

 collection some years ago, I discovered, in the deal, uncorked, un- 

 varnished and warped cabinet containing it, a drawer, in which were 

 quite 200 specimens of ilicifolin in varioiis stages of destruction by 

 grease, verdigris and mites. Eheu fugaces .'— Eichakd Freer, M.B., 

 Kugeley, Staffs. 



Hei'ialus humuli, &c., in Ireland. — I read with some surprise in 

 the Record of April 1st that this species is considered rare in Ireland, 

 and that the Eev. W. F. Johnson only knows of two localities where it 

 has been obtained. I have always found it one of the commonest 

 moths in this county (Waterford), where it frequents meadows in the 

 early summer ; last summer, had I been so disposed, I could have taken 

 it in hundreds. I may also mention that it is by no means uncommon 

 to see specimens of Pararge vtegaera and P. egeria late in October. 

 Last year I saw a specimen of the latter on October 27th, and in 1893 

 one of the former on October 24th. Does not this point to the 

 probability that these butterflies are sometimes triple-brooded? — L. H. 

 Bona parte- W^YSE, Manor of St. John's, Waterford. March 2Bth, 1895, 



In the Record for April 1st, is a short note about the scarcity of 

 this species in Ireland. I was collecting all last summer in Co. 

 Fermanagh, and found H. humnli swarming everywhere, on several 

 evenings at the end of June. I took one S" with brown markings on 

 the fore-wings. — Endybiion Poktek, St. Paul's Vicarage, Stratford, E. 

 April \th, 1895. [The notice as to the rarity of H, humidi was quite an 

 error, it should have been J] . lupidinus. — En.] 



