174 THE entomologist's recoud. 



by the Society at the last meeting to find out the food-plant of Papilio 

 MACHAON IN THE Alph. Plaviug Spent a week at Lucerne, he had found 

 the wild carrot extremely plentiful at elevations as high as those 

 whereon /-'. uiacluuni occurred, and had no doubt this was the food-plant. 

 Mr. Prout wrote from Sandown : " July 22nd, .... 1 consider 



the season decidedly better than the average One wreck 



of Aijrotis lunii/era turned up at sugar on Monday night . . . Sugar 

 has paid well, but only in the ordinary species ; Carailriiia tara.raci is 

 commoner than usual, and some pretty forms have been taken. 

 Miana bicoloria, M. literoaa, &c., are in about their usual numbers, 

 Leucania (■(Diii/era perhaps a trifle commoner than usual. Last night, 

 it was too windy for convenient work in the Culvers, and I therefore 

 preferred to visit my Calainia p/irar/iiiitidis ground, which is sheltered 

 by the West Clifi'. C. jjhrw/iidtidis proved unfortunately to be worn 

 (though last year 1 took it in good condition right into August), but 

 the dusking was rendered rather exciting by the unwonted abundance 

 of three large species, Boiiiby.c quercus J s., both sexes of (Jdoiicstix 

 potaturla and Uraptcryx sauihiicaria. I think it must be a good season 

 for the BoMBYciDEs ; I picked up one species which I had not 

 previously met with in the perfect state, a ^ Clisiocainjui nemtria at 

 rest on a grass stem. By day the most noteworthy thing has been 

 the extreme abundance of the second brood of Cijaniris anjiolm, 

 unapproached since I commenced visiting Sandown in 1887. Once I 

 got three in iny net at the sane time, and more than once in striking 

 at one which was just out of reach, I netted another which chanced to 

 " cross the line of fire " at the moment. As in 1898 we shall doubtless be 

 favoured with a liberal supply of second broods. Those of I'hibalaptcri/.c 

 ritalhata, the Coremias, &,c., are fully out and more than ordinarily com- 

 mon, while of less general second broods 1 have already noticed Nisoiiiades 

 t(U/cs, Zorummia punctaria, and a lovely J/('Z«;t?)/;*f' unawiidata which can 

 hardly be a retarded straggler from the May -June brood. I am 

 somewhat doubtful where to class a good specimen of ^. iiian/hwjnmrtata, 

 as we are just midway between the time of the two broods. As an 

 undoubted contra to the early dates I am recording, I may mention 

 that on Monday afternoon I came upon a colony of Zt/i/acua trifuUi, 

 a species which is generally over when I arrive here, in 

 beautifully fresh condition. Cidaria dotata, Lithosia r/riseola, L. 

 li(rid('(da, Aiidalia intcrjcctaria, and some other species also seem fairly 

 normal as to dates. I have made one addition to my Sandown Macro- 

 lepidoptera list, a worn but quite recognizable specimen of A. inoniata." 

 August 13tli, 1896. — Exhibits: — Mr. Bishop: Macana liturata horn 

 OxsHOTT, Zonowmaporata and Plebeius act/on from Tunbridge Wells, 

 and a Dipterous parasite bred from a larva of I'Hcudoterpna prulnata 

 found in Epping Forest ; Mr. E. W. Bobbins, Stauropm fayi, 

 Ellopia prumpiaria, and Aspilates strlf/illaria from Oxshott, also 

 Livutcodcs tcstiido from Chattenden, and a specimen each of 

 Faiiiussiuiy u})oUn and Cucnoni/iiip/ui arcania from Lucerne. Mr. 

 Jennings said Lepidoptera had been observed freely this year by his 

 friend Mr. Ilarwood of Colchester, who had seen a specimen of 

 Sphin.ccunrolndi on July 3rd. Mr. Prout wrote from Sandown " After 

 the 27tli July, sugaring became somewhat unproductive, and with 

 the exception only of one or two nights has continued so. The species 

 are, however, decidedly early, and I have the pleasure of recording 

 the advent of a lovely Leucania alhipuncta (in " bred condition ") 



