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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



AssKMBLiNii IX BoAKMiA KOBOUAKIA. — I havG lately looked up the 

 various references to "assembling" in the magazines, but find no 

 particular reference to the habit in JJ. rohoraria. It may, therefore, 

 be worth recording that, while in the New Forest during June, 1895, 

 with my friend, Air. T, Clarke, we found a freshly emerged female of 

 this insect. The plumose antennae of the male suggested to us the 

 idea of " assembling," and we therefore tried it, and were most 

 successful. The males put in an appearance at about 12 p.m., and in 

 two nights we took at least forty, which were not, I suppose, one half 

 of the number we actually saw.— J. H. Bell, 150, Stockwell Park 

 Koad, Brixton. 



r^^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Early Sprinc; Notes. — Aberdeen. — Phigalia pedaria has again 

 made an early appearance here. I found two males in the Logie 

 Woods, near Pitcaple, on January 22nd, and a female on a telegraph 

 pole, near Monymusk Station, on the following day. Mr. Reid told 

 me that he first noticed P. pedaria on (I believe) January 16th. — A. 

 HoRNE, Aberdeen. Februari/, 1896. 



Emsworth. — I noticed Hybernia leucophaearia for the first time 

 on January 26th, on which date Gheimatohia hrumala was still out. — 

 W. M. Christy, F.E.S., Watergate, Emsworth. February, 1896. 



DoNCASTEii. — The mild season is bringing out insects very early 

 here. On January 12th I saw Hybernia defoliarla and Cheimatohia 

 briimata: on January Idih, Phigalia pedaria; on February 16th, 

 Nyssia hispidaria ; on February 20th, Auixopteryx aescularia and 

 // leucophaearia. The latter species {H. leucophaearia) is extra- 

 ordinarily scarce here this year. As a rule they are very abundant. 

 but this season 1 have as yet only seen five. P. pedaria also is far 

 from common. On the contrary, N. hispidaria is more abundant 

 than usual ; I took six yesterday between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. Some of 

 these were drying their wings, and all were on the lower part of the 

 trunks of oaks. On the 16th inst., I found one on a small branch of 

 a sycamore,— H. H. Corbett, M.R.C.S., Doncaster. Februnn/ 25th, 

 1896. 



Vanessa urtic.k after hybernation. — One of my boys, on his way 

 home from Blackheath Road School, captured a specimen of 

 V. iirticae yesterday. It seems extraordinarily early even for this 

 species. — J. E. Evans, Greenwich. Ffhniari/ I'Sfh, 1896. 



I picked up a living specimen of V. urticac in my house yesterday, 

 and another on a path in the Old Kent Road to-day. — (Mrs.) E. 

 Macmillan, Avondale Square, S.E. Ffhruary 12///, 1896. 



I observed a specimen of I', urticac near Halstow Road Board 

 Schools (E. Greenwich), to-day. — C. Newbery, Annandalc Koad, 

 Greenwich, S.E. January 31.s/, 1896. 



CucuLLiA gnaphalii. — I took a larva of this species on August 24th, 

 1894, in the Sevenoaks district. The larva pupated on August 27th, 

 and emerged on June 28rd, 1895. — Edward Goodwin, Canon Court, 

 Wateringbury. February lit/i, 1896. 



Unusual appearances of Dasychira pudibuxda. — I have bred 



