NOTES ON COLLECTING, ETC. 17 



NocTUiDEs have been at rhododendron liowers, which seem, while they 

 hist, to be very attractive to the Hadenas as well as to sundry other 

 species ; but I have seen no Choerucampa porcellus, although I have 

 kept my eyes open for them. Larvse of all kinds seem very plentiful — 

 the very dry May having, doubtless, suited their development — and the 

 apple trees in particular have suffered severely : the top shoots of the 

 hawthorn hedges, too, have in some places been stripped to an unusual 

 extent by the queer-coloured larvae of Diloba caernhoc'jjhahi. of which 



I could have taken many hundreds." Mr. H. A. Beadle (Keswick) 



writes on June iHth : "I have just got a nice lot of Erehia epiphron 

 var. cassiope and Crainbus er'iceJlus with a few Mixodia scJiultziana, 

 and a sprinkling of other nice things. There were plenty of common 

 things out, but I had neither time nor space for them. I have taken 

 two insects new to this district. One of them is Phlbahipleryx 

 vittata, of which I took about 50 good specimens in one evening. 

 The C ericeUim are very fine specimens this year, and rather more 

 plentiful, whilst I only got one G. /HrcateUns, and that a rubbed one. 

 Micros of many species were numerous. My dark vars. of Hijpsipetes 

 sordidata are all taken flying over bilberry ; all that I have taken of 

 the ordinary colour and markings are got from sallows ; hence, in this 

 case, I think food must be the cause of the variation. I once found 

 a small hollow amongst the ling on Scout Fell, near Kendal, which 

 was swarming with this species, the specimens ranging from nearly 

 white to dark brown, some with and some without a central white band 

 on the fore- wing, but not one had any trace of green, and very few 

 shewed the round white spot on the anal angle of the fore-wing. I have 

 not tried sugar yet, but intend giving my pet place a trial very soon." 

 Query. — Crane-Flies from x'Vquatic Pup.e. — I have recently found a 

 numberof Crane-flies emerging from aquatic pupse, and should be glad to 

 lie informed whether there is a known variety of this insect that is aquatic 

 in any of its stages. I am unable to find any local authority for the 

 fact. — H. W. H. Darlaston, 109, Leonard Eoad, Handsworth, Bir- 

 mingham. June, 1895. 



:il^OTICES AND REVIEWS. 



Rambles in Alpine Valleys, by J. W. Tutt, F.E.S. 



[Published by Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Paternoster Square. Price 3s. Gd.] 

 In his new volume, Mr. Tutt breaks entirely new ground. He 

 quits (perhaps a little regretfully) his well-beloved Kentish woods and 

 marshes, wanders far afield, and finds a new entomological El Dorado 

 on the Italian slopes of the Mont Blanc ridge. This step, everyone 

 who reads the book will acknowledge to have been a happy one. These 

 essays are no mere catalogue of a rustling bustling tour over half the 

 States and Pruicipalities of Europe, in which historic scenes are visited 

 d la carte, and a pre-determined number of cathedrals and battlefields 

 viewed in a week. On the contrary, they provide what is far rarer, 

 and, to the contemplative beings who take their supreme delight in 

 observing Nature's lowlier marvels, far more deeply interesting, records 

 of the rambles and impressions of a worshipper of nature, preaching 

 his creed to his fellows in belief, noting his impressions after the happy 

 toil of exploring quiet glades, finding hidden beauties, unearthing the 



