NOTES ON COLLECTING, ETC. 183 



rilldsus and B. trssdlatus from oak, llijlastrs palliatti.s common in 

 felled pines, and PhloeopJitJiorus rhododacti/lus swept in grassy places 

 near woods. Of Apian I have taken A. actliiops, A. cunfiuens, A. 

 dijfornie, A. end, A. hookeri, A. loti, A. pisi, A. jmhesceus, A. radiulus, 

 A. simile, A. tenue, A. trifuUi, A. caripes, A, rora.r and A. ciciae, all 

 more or less commonly, and only through lack of previous working do 

 they stand as additional species. 



Since the above was written many additional species have turned 

 up, either by collecting or among those already taken, but not 

 previously examined. Hoiiialuta restita from dead dogs in April ; 

 J'/iil<i)it/ius scDij/uiiKdentus and /'. albipes from dung in October ; O.njtelus 

 laipucatus and TriKjophloeas rindaris on water in May ; I'lddfidriuin 

 ehjpcatwii was swept in October. Jumiirnis tarmtiix, Mdi/jet/tes 

 hrunnicornis, AtiathiiliiDii )iii/ii)iuiii, Sci/ddius pi/ipiiacus, Li/cujjerdina 

 hociatae and Brachi/idenis puhescrns were all swept. Sapriims nuiifronn 

 was in a dead hedgehog in April. Malthiniis faaciaUix occurred with 

 Dasi/tes plntiibenx in June. Cis villostdus was beaten from alder in 

 September, and Ftilinun pectinicornis was taken from decayed willows 

 in November. ( 'hrysuviela lainina again turned up this year in its old 

 locality — a hedge twenty yards long. Psi/lliades affinis occurred on 

 reeds. Sitones liuincralix was swept from Vina satira and Krirrhinm 

 festucae and J)ai/i)us (/ diybjptns) from aquatic plants, while K. 

 raZn///ustvis is very abundant under aspen bark. ('leonm mlcirosttiit 

 and Apiim caiduorwn swept from thistles in November, and a couple of 

 dozen Hylcsinus cre)iatus from under oak bark on the 28th, complete 

 the list. — Ipswich. December, 1895. 



Local LEPmopTERA at Farnboro'. — Last autumn I took a single 

 specimen of Xi/lina semibrunnea at sugar, also one Apaiiiea ojiJduijramina. 

 I did not take any larvae of Flastenifi subtusa this year (1895), as I was 

 too much occupied at the time to look for them, but last year (1894) I 

 reared over seventy specimens, so that it was well to give them a rest. 

 This year I only saw one P. retma ; that was on sugar, but I took 

 nine good Cab/iiniia ajfiuis, half a dozen worn N(ntua stif/matica, 

 together with a good series of Pijschurista suspecta. There were very 

 few Atiphalia diluta on the sugar this autumn, and Xauthia faraj/o and 

 A'. /ifZ(Y/_r/o were also chary as to appearing at the bait, although on 

 some favourable nights they were exceedingly abundant on the grass- 

 heads in a restricted area about 15 yards in extent, and with very few 

 sallows near. — Hope Alderson, Hilda Vale Road, Farnboro'. 

 Decewber, 1895. 



SCOPARIA CRATAEGELLA AND S. MERCURELLA. Both these SpOCicS 



occur here, the former abundantly, varying a great deal in size, colour 

 and intensity of markings, the latter very sparingly. The specimens 

 of the latter, however, are all much darker than those of S. crataet/ella, 

 especially between the first and second lines, giving a banded ap- 

 pearance. — W. S. Riding, M.D., F.E.8., Bucherell Lodge, Honiton. 

 Nnreiidier 8tJi, 1895. 



Therisitis mucronella AT n^. — The cold (12'^ of frost) and wet 

 spoilt our ivy early, and I have no fresh captures to record, except one 

 T. }inieri>nella. — Ibid. 



Xylina conformis in Westmoreland. — One autumn, about twelve 

 years ago, I captured among many other insects at ivy a specimen of 

 A', cunfurmis, which Mr. Hodgkinson named for me, and which I 



