812 THE entomologist's uecgrd. 



{(nirhahi'd) larviP were very scarce at Chippenham. Ut/iostfi/e i/rixeata 

 was rather scarce, whilst Anticlea bcrberata and Scutosia certata were in 

 fair abundance, both in the larval and imaginal states. Larvae of 

 Fidoiiia Ihnharia {innspiniata) were very scarce. I fancy this species 

 has been all but exterminated, as also its food-plant. The broom is 

 mostly very young and small, and difficult to work, and the few older 

 bushes do not appear to be in a fit condition to afitbrd sufficient nutri- 

 ment for the larvae. — F. Norgate, Bury St. Edmunds. 



Anticlea sinuata in Suffolk. — I took eleven larv;e of A. sinuata 

 from two adjacent plants of Galium verum, but all succumbed to 

 parasites (two species), and careful search of acres of Galium in the 

 same and adjacent warrens failed to produce another larva ; but on 

 searching a large extent of the same plant, about sixteen miles oft', 

 two more larvje were obtained from the same plant, both of which 

 pupated. — Ibid. 



CoLEOPTERA ix SuFFOLK. — The beautiful blue and red beetle, 

 Chri/somela disfinguenda has been numerous on Linaria (yellow 

 toadflax). I took one Ocijpns ci/ancus here, and a friend sent me 

 six Ithlpiphorus [^[l'ta^'(^^'Us'j parado.tus from one wasp's nest near 

 Bury. — Ibid. 



Tenby in June. — I spent the first fortnight of June at Tenby, and 

 found sugar very productive, Agrotis ripae, Mamestra albicolon and 

 Leucania iittoralis turning up in numbers. — (Rev.) E. C. Dobree 

 Fox, M.A., Castle Moreton, Tewkesbury. 



Food-plant for T^niocampa miniosa.— Have any lepidopterists 

 tried the large oak-galls for feeding T. miniosa larvae ? I brought a 

 great number back from the New Forest, and they grew to a large size 

 when fed upon this food, which they preferred to fresh oak-leaves. The 

 large rough galls were very plentiful this year, and as the larvae 

 seemed to like them so much, it was an easy way of satisfying their 

 voracious appetites, the galls keeping juicy longer than leaves. — D. 

 L. BrouctHton, Doddington, Nantwich. 



Late appearances. — Although insects were unusually early this 

 year, I was surprised to find they remained flying long after their 

 usual time. For instance, when I was sugaring at Ramnor, in the New 

 Forest (not Ranmore, as printed ante, p. 217), on September 10th, I 

 took a specimen of Catocala sponm, and on September 29th, a specimen 

 of Boarmia consortaria. Of course both were in poor condition. 

 I found both larviB and imagines scarce in the Forest, on account of 

 the wet, but as soon as the ivy was in flower many insects put in an 

 appearance, r/:., Xijlina socia, Srojiclo.snina satellitia, DicJionia 

 (ijiiiliiui, Xj/lina rhiziditha, Onhudia vaccinii, (). lif/ida (spadicea), 

 McUinia rircellaris, Miselia o.ri/aranthac, Anchorelis pistacina, Hadena 

 jiinti-a, Anrhucdix macilenta, A. rujina, ('it>-ia fulvat/o, Cidaria 

 psittacata, etc. Several larvae of Demas conjli, Th-cpana nnf/uiada, two 

 of Hi'temienea liinarodef;, and also three of Crnira furcida, occurred in 

 October. These last must have been very late, as I had two which 

 pupated in August. — W. J. Caoss, Ely. October 20t/t, 1896. 



Second broods of Lepidopteka. — A specimen of Leiocampa 

 dictaenidex came to light on August 10th. Lvjdia adnstata, ova sent 

 me from Chichester, and sleeved out in the open, produced a second 

 l)rood at the end of August. — (Rev.) C. D. Ash, M.A., Skipwith 

 Vicarage, Selby, Yorks. 



