16 THE entomologist's KECORD. 



resinous mass) of the former are common on the small tirs. Phlha- 

 lapteryx lapuJata occurs (sometimes freely) in the Black Wood at 

 Eannock ; it is taken living along the sides of the paths after dusk. I 



havehad ova, but failed with the larv;e." Mr. John Finlay (Morpeth) 



writes on June 7th: '' Tortrix icterana, in this locality, frequents 

 damp places where the herbage is coarse and rank, and after 4 p.m. 

 the insect rises out from amongst the herbage as one is moving 

 through it ; but about seven in the evening it is most plentiful on the 

 wing, and is very easily captured. The time for its appearance is the 

 end of June. 7'. vihnrniana frequents moors here where Erica is the 

 principal herbage ; the species flies in the sun, and, if the weather be 

 favourable, the insect will be on the wing by 10 a.m. ; it does not fly 

 so freely in the afternoon. The species is much more plentiful than 

 T. icterana in this neighbourhood. The larva; of Perunea aulumnaua 

 and P. tristana I collect in rolled up leaves of dwarf sallow at the end 

 of July or beginning of August. I do not think that the male 

 Cheiiiialohia hrinnata carries the female, nor do I think that the male 



of any species of moth carries the female." Mr. H. W. Vivian 



(London) writes on June 11th : " Insects were just beginning to turn 

 up when I left Wales, ten days or a fortnight ago, but nothing 

 wonderful. I paid a visit to some rough fields where I knew Mc.lilaea 

 aurinia should be, and found them right enough, but unfortunately 

 mostly worn. Nothing else of note occurred there. Hugar, by the sand 

 hills, on one night produced a good crop of A. exclamations, GramvieHtu 

 trigrammica, el hoc (jenus omite. the more aristocratic visitors Avere, 

 one A. ripae and half-a-dozen Lencauiu litloraiis ; this species was 

 just coming out, I think. Two years ago I got them in plenty, earlier 

 than this, by dabbing the sugar on the clumps of marram grass ; the 

 moths were often ditticult to see, as they got right into the middle of 

 the chrmp, and it was very sticky work getting them out. The only 

 other insects at sugar in the same place were Mamentra alhicolon, 

 which were not uncommon. A little earlier I was out one evening 

 Avith Mr. Holland, of Reading, and we found L. littoralis larvre swarming, 

 we might have gathered buckets full; with them were a few A.praecox 

 larva', looking very handsome and conspicuous. I bred very few, as 

 L. littoralis makes very short work of muslin, and they were mostly 

 gone by the next morning. I have done little else this year ; sallows 

 were over so quickly that I got hardly anything on them. A hunt for 

 Xyiina furcifera (coiiforviis) was unsuccessful for the fifth year in 

 succession. I know of no specimen taken since the one I took in 1H89, 

 I think. Happily the Welsh specimens are smaller and much darker 



than the Continental, and so may be easily distinguished." 



Rev. C. F. Thornewill (Whitchurch, Salop) writes on June 17th : 

 " The larviu of Eriojaster lanestris seem miusually abundant this year. 

 I find them, however, very chary of pupating. Can any one give me 

 any hints on this point ? I can get the moths to emerge from the 

 pupa without any trouble, by just putting the cage containing the 

 cocoons in the sun early in March, when they will come swarming out 

 like tiies. I once had 15 out in this way in about half an hour. My 

 experience of the season so far has not been very satisfactory. Sugar, 

 as yet, has been a miserable failure, owing, I suppose, to the cold bright 

 nights. I tried it four times and took four moths, after which I 

 knocked oft" till the weather changed. Nearly all my captures of 



