138 THE entomologist's record. 



feathered antenna on the right side, and a slender female one on 

 the other." He also found that the " right wings were a shade longer 

 and larger than the left, which seems corroborative evidence of 

 hermaphroditism, ' ' 



In the Fii'hl of Jmie 6th last, Mr. E. G. B. Meade Waldo states 

 that he saw a fine specimen of Danais chri/si2)j)Us in a field of trifolium, 

 near his house at Lymington, Was the species Anosia airJiipjins .' 

 If so, its early appearance, coinciding, as it does, with the early move- 

 ment of this species in North America, is interesting. 



Mr. F. C. Adams records the capture, on May 29th last, of a fine 

 specimen of L'hnjwccpluda nii/ra, in the Rhinefield Enclosure, New 

 Forest. This is supposed to be the second recorded British specimen. 



It is with great regret that we record the death of the veteran 

 entomologist, Mr. Peter Inchbald, F.L.S., F.E.S., at Hornsea, on 

 June 13th last. The celebrated Royal Academician, Edward Armi- 

 tage, R.A., F.E.S., who died on 'May 24th, was also a Coleopterist 

 and a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London. 



In Bntish Tortvurs (1859), Wilkinson writes : — " The folding and 

 twisting of the leaves and twigs is accomplished by means of an 

 elastic silk, spun by the larva, usually of a whitish colour, which 

 hardens and contracts on exposure to the air, and this draAvs opposite 

 portions of the leaves towards each other. A scries of spinnings and 

 contortions effect the end in view. The operation is, therefore, two- 

 fold : first, the act of the larva itself ; secondly, the force exercised 

 by the contraction of the silk ; there is otherwise no accounting for 

 the extraordinary folding and bending of stubborn leaves, obviously 

 beyond the unassisted strength of minute larvfe." In the Ent. 2Io. 

 McKj., vol. ii., p. 15, Mr. Pifi'ard wrote : — " There appears to me to be 

 another reason for the approximation of the portions of leaves spun 

 together, viz., the contractile power of the recently spun web itself, 

 which certainly shrinks very considerably in a short spiice of time ; 

 and this must be of great assistance to the leaf -rolling larva." Dr. 

 Knaggs [K.M.M.) thinks that it is high time that someone made a 

 more thorough investigation of the matter. Why not Dr. Knaggs ? 



:i^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Eaely appearance of Orgyia antiqua. — In connection with Mr. 

 Tutt's remark {ante, p. 119), I may add that I saw two specimens of O. 

 antiqua on the wing as early as April 4th, in Chattenden Woods. — 

 H. Tunaley, F.E.S., 30, Fairmount Road, Brixton Hill, S.AW 



Whitsuntide IN the New Forest. — On May 22nd, 1H96, the members 

 of the North London Natural History Society started on their 

 annual Whitsuntide excursion to the New Forest. Messrs. C. B. 

 Smith, L. J. Tremayne, C. Nicholson, R. W. Robbins and W. H. 

 Smith, left Waterloo by the usual 5.50 train, and arrived at Lyndhurst 

 Road soon after 9.0 p.m. Thence they proceeded by 'bus to Lyndhurst, 

 and were comfortably settled in their rooms at Lynwood a little before 

 10 p.m. The following morning was dry, but dull. All the members 

 were out before breakfast. The fences only yielded a specimen of 

 Eupithccia vidijata, a specimen of Ctrreiiiia fen-wjafa, and a worn 

 specimen of Taeniocampa stabilis ; but a walk round Pond Head 



