NOTES ON COLLECTING. 41 



year), but I have never seen it elsewhere in Switzerland. I also once 

 found the larvae at Sierre, so that I suppose it occurs there annually in 

 small numbers. The food-plant, Colutea arborescens, is pretty abundant 

 in that locality. — K. D. Postans, East Grinstead. 



Chcerocampa nerii in 1890. — Your note on Clwerocampa nerii 

 {ante, vol. viii., pp. 273-4) awakens recollections. The specimen was 

 taken in 1890 (not 1892). Mr. R. C. L. Perkins, now, I think, in 

 the Sandwich Islands, was then living at Dartmouth. He saw the 

 specimen as soon as captured, and wrote to me about it. At my 

 suggestion. Master H. F. Owen, of Stoke Fleming (not Stoke Henning), 

 sent me the record of its capture, which duly appeared in the E.M.M., 

 vol. xxvi., p. 328. — Chas. G. Bakrett, F.E.S., 39, Linden Grove, 

 Nunhead. 



Abraxas grossulariata emerging in November. — Some two or three 

 hundred larvae of A. f/rossidariata, beaten last autumn (1896), from 

 spindle, were brought indoors and sleeved on a branch in water. The 

 larvae began to hybernate at the end of October (although the room 

 always has afire in it), with the exception of one individual, which fed 

 on and pupated, producing a quite normally-marked imago on Nov. 

 17th, 1896. The remainder are still larvfe of, perhaps, one-third of an 

 inch in length. — J. C. Warburg, 8, Porchester Terrace, Hyde Park, W. 



The GEOGRAPmcAL distribution of Thamnotrizon cinereus. — At 

 a recent meeting of one of the entomological societies in London, some 

 specimens of this Orthopteron were exhibited as having been obtained 

 in the New Forest, with the information that they are " rare." Permit 

 me to say that, according to my experience, this species is the commonest 

 and most widely-distributed of the family Locustidae in this country. 

 I have found it in most of the southern counties where I have 

 collected, and, though local, it is usually abundant wherever it occurs, 

 including the New Forest. I know many localities also for it in the 

 Midlands. — W. Harcourt Bath, Birmingham. 



Sale of Mr. C. A. Briggs' collection. — A few of the prices paid, 

 on Nov. 10th last, for some of the Pyralides sold in Mr. Briggs' 

 collection are, perhaps, worth mentioning. The chief were : — Scoparia 

 atonialis (2 abs.), £2 5s. ; S. atomalis (3 abs.), £2 5s. ; S. ulmella 

 (banded ab.), 22/- ; S. alpina (banded ab.), 25/- ; O.rijjjtilun parvidactylus 

 (ochreous ab.), 12/- ; Cramhus alpinellm, 10/- (6), 12/- (6), 12/- (5), 

 10/- (4), 21/- (3) ; C. verellus, 16/-, 26/-, 45/- each ; C. m)/ellus (3), 

 15/-, 18/- ; C. rorcUus, 30/- ; Ephestia pryerella, 40/-. A further 

 portion of Mr. Briggs' collection, sold on Nov. 24th, produced, among 

 others, the following prices: — Setina irrorella (dark ab.), 35/-; 

 Deiopeia pidcheUa, 6/-, 8/-, 10/- for single specimens, and 16/-, 22/-, 

 32/6, 52/6 and 30/- per pair. A pale ab. of Arctia caia, fore-wings 

 cream-coloured, with a few central spots, hind-wings without spots, 

 £12 2s. 6d; other aberrations producing 35/- (1), 16/- (4), 18/- (7), 

 40/- (7), 47/6 (8), 22/- (7), 35/- (7), 42/- (7) ; Spilosomamenthastriah. 

 ivalkeri caused 16/-, 22/-, 22/- to be bidden, and an ab. of S. iirticae went 

 for 26/-, Laelia caenosa produced 14/-, 12/, 18/-, 18/-, 21/-, 18/-, 22/- 

 20/-, 21/- per pair, whilst Lasiocavipa ilicifolia produced 35/-, 35/-, 

 37/6, 40/-, 42/-, 45/- per specimen, and Drepana harpatjida, 18/-, 14/-, 

 10/-, 8/-, 14/-, 11/-, per pair. Two Microdonta bicolora, reputed as 

 taken by Bouchard, at Killarney, produced 3 guineas each specimen. 

 Two Synia musculosa (captor, J. Fielding, as late as 1871) went for 



