dURRfiNt NOTES. 15 



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JS^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Spring Notes. — Insects have been abundant at the sallows, and 

 before the sallows were in flower I took Taoiiocainpa munda, T. pnlrcni- 

 Iciita, T. stabilis, T. instabilis, T. //othica, and a few Xijlina saria and A". 

 rhizolit/ia at sugar, but no Dasi/caiiijia nchiniiira. (Jrr/iodia racruiii, 

 0. li(/ula and Scopdosowa satelUtia were there in numbers. I never 

 saw so many specimens of the last named before ; there were from 

 ten to a dozen on every patch of sugar. Tcji/irosia crcpuscidaria has 

 been very abundant during March. I invariably find it drying its 

 wings at the base of larch trees. — J. Mason, Clevedon Court Lodge, 

 Somerset. 



On April 4th the sallows at Dinmore (Hereford), were nearly over, 

 but Puchnobla rubricosa ah. ntfa, P. Irucoi/rapJia and ab. lepetitii, Taoiio- 

 cainpa niiniosa, T. instahilis, T, stabilis, T. (/racilis, T. pulcendenta, T. 

 popideti (one lovely ab. nif/ra), T. iininda and ab. innnacidata, T. i/otJiica 

 (some with the i— i-like mark very constricted), Hoporina crorea</o, 

 (jfonoptera libatrix, Panolis pinipcrda, and quite a nwn^ev oi Kupitlicria 

 abbrcriata (just out) were taken. On April 9th we saw quite a number of 

 cocoons oi (.'eniia bicuspis on aider, and C. bifida on poplar, but all 

 empty. P(d!/i/onia c-albniii was on the wing. On April 10th a male 

 Jvac/dae cardainines deserves mention. Pieris rajiae was seen several 

 times during the week. — J. W. Tutt. April, 1896. 



The habits of Acidalia emarchnata. — Almost all collectors take this 

 species occasionally ; it is very rarely that any large number, however, 

 can be obtained. It is frequently to be taken just at dusk flying 

 among sallow bushes (although sallow is not mentioned as a food- 

 plant for the larva). I have taken odd specimens at sugar, and beaten 

 occasional specimens by day. Mr. Bayne says that it is fairly common 

 in the bogs of the New I'orest at dusk, and that he saw it very com- 

 monly in a road, leading through damp fields, near Aylesbury, in July, 

 1H9H, and believes that it is reported as occurring very late in the 

 evening. Mr. -J. Mason states that the few specimens which he has 

 taken have been netted at dusk. Mr. Sydney Webb says that the 

 species is very local, but generally pretty abundant where it occurs, 

 and that, although it may be beaten by day, like A. iinitaria, it flies by 

 preference somewhat late in the evening. It appears to be one of 

 those species which can only be obtained in any numbers Avhen the 

 males are assembling, and that, to get a good series, one should 

 search with a lantern on the herbage where the males are flying, for a 

 female. No doubt it is easy to breed, like most of its congeners. — 

 J. W. Tutt. April, 1896. 



Eare British Lepidoptera. — In my previous note (^py)it. Rcc, vol. 

 vii., p. 317), I dreAv attention to Si/nia inuscnlosa, and asked for 

 information. Thi-ee more were sold in the Rev. C. A. Sladen's collection. 

 These were labelled as follows: -" W'ye Downs, 1885, Morley collec- 

 tion " ; "Brighton, 1878, Stowell collection"; " Bristow, Bexhill, 



