192 THE entomologist's record. 



mcrable /'. iranift, and Mr. L. J. Tremayne beat a ^ Drcpana Unaria 

 from a small birch tree, several fine specimens of ('hri/snpJtanitft pfdocns 

 being also taken here. Later in the day, at Bridge Rocks, a dead 

 pine tree, completely riddled with small holes, Oipparently the work of 

 some beetle, was inspected. The heartiest thanks are due to Mr. 

 Abbott for the trouble he took over this excursion. — Lawrence J. 

 Tremayne. 



Aporia crat.egi. — I have much pleasure in recording the capture 

 of this supposed extinct British butterfly, in the middle of June last, 

 in a locality where it has previously beeft taken and recorded by 

 several entomologists. — H. Dou(jlas Stockwell, 2, Albert Road, 

 Dover. Awiust 23/v/, 1896. 



You will be glad to hear that our local tap of Apuria cratarip' has 

 been almost common this year. — Sydney Webb. Septniiber, 1896. 



Second brood of Acidalia subsericeata. — The breeding of a 

 large second brood of this species is perhaps sufficiently unusual to 

 place on record. From eggs deposited in June last, two broods fed up 

 pretty rapidly, and pupated about the middle of July. On my return 

 (August 23rd), after some weeks' absence from home on a collecting 

 expedition in the Dauphine Alps, I was astonished to find that some 

 fifty moths had emerged. Most of them were dead and dry, others 

 alive ; and two have since emerged (on the 2.5th inst.). — J. W. Tutt. 

 Auijmt, 1896. 



" Reflections and queries on the value of rare British Leptdop- 

 TERA." — I am sorry not to comply with the Editor's request {ante. p. 

 67, footnote) to give " exact references and captors' names " of more 

 recent captures of D. ymnhurialis (omitting Mr. Digby's), and K. 

 catalaunalis, than those made by Messrs. T. and W. C. Boyd respectively. 

 Speaking from memory only, I do not recollect that any more recent 

 captures, with the exception of the Rev. C. R. Digby's, which I have 

 already mentioned, have been recorded, but my remark was that both 

 species had been taken in Britain more recently. This statement, the 

 truth of which as concerns D. rcimhurialis is proved by Mr. Digby's 

 capture alone, was, in the case of that insect, also founded on reliable 

 private information received about British specimens which I have 

 seen, and it is my rule never to publish such without authority : as 

 regards K. catalaunalis, it rests on the fact that in his British 

 Ihjralides, Mr. J. H. Leech, even r/' his " near London " refers to Mr. 

 W. C. Boyd's Cheshunt capture, has also recorded it from " near 

 Dover." " John Bull " wished to know the ground upon which these 

 two species are considered British, and having shown him, I have no 

 intention of pursuing the subject further : if the Editor is anxious to 

 do so, he cannot do better than write to Mr. Leech, who has published 

 three additional British localities, besides the two mentioned by me, 

 for D. ramhurialis, and at least one more for E. catahmnalin, and to 

 Mr. Sydney Webb, who probably knows full particulars about the 

 Kentish captures of both species. It may be worth mentioning, by 

 the way, that when Mr. J. W. Downing's collection was sold, in 1894, 

 there was in it a specimen of T). ramhniialis which, to my mind, was 

 almost certainly British : it was set in English style on an English 

 pin, had apparently never been re-pinned, and was doing duty for 

 D. liferalis, standing with three Pembroke individuals of that species, 

 and being catalogued as received with them from their captor, Mr. C. 



