64 THE kntomologtst's record. 



EuvANESSA ANTioPA AT YARMOUTH. — Walking on the south pier at 

 the mouth of Yarmouth harhour, on September, 8th, 1896, rny wife, 

 who was with rne, called my attention to what seemed to her a curious 

 butterfly, which had jurst alighted on the pier, I at once started in 

 pursuit, and was pleasurably amazed to see it was E. antiopa. I did 

 not attempt to catch it, as I do not see the utility of capturing every 

 rare insect the moment it is espied. As it had the yellow border of 

 the Continental form, I presume it had come across, lodged in the 

 rigging of some ship. — Albert H. Waters, B.A., Cambridge. 



AcHERONTiA ATROPOs IN 1896. — This spccics was not only commoner 

 than usual about Cambridgeshire last year (1896), but I noticed when 

 at Great Yarmouth, at the end of August, that the larvae were 

 unusually abundant in that part of Norfolk. — Albert H. Waters, B.A., 

 Cambridge. 



Carnivorous habit of Podisus luridus. — On beating a bush of 

 I'ihnrtiuiii ojndu-s, I came across I'oduus luridtis, in its larval form, 

 busily engaged in sucking the juices of Gatt'nudla vihunii. Struck by 

 the (to me) peculiar fact of a " plant bug " indulging in a carnivorous 

 diet, I took it home and reared it on wasp grub and flies. I found it 

 would attack live insects if they remained fairly quiet, but was terri- 

 fied by the struggles of a Tijnda, or any similarly powerful creature. 

 It changed its skin three times while in captivity, the resplendent 

 bronze border of its abdomen and thorax becoming more beautiful with 

 each ecdysis. — W. W. Esam, Eagle House, St. Leonard's. 



Attracti\t>ness of dogwood sap to moths. — Last spring I found 

 that the sap exuding from freshly cut dog-wood was of such superior 

 attraction to the usual sallow-loving insects, that the sallows were 

 practically blank, and each stem of cut dogwood was covered with 

 moths. Has this attraction been noticed Vjy others ? — W. B. Thorn- 

 hill, Castle Cosey, Castle Bellingham, Ireland. Y'Vi., 1897. 



Pupa-digging in Ireland. — Pupa-digging has been a blank this 

 winter here : certain trees which for several years have yielded me some 

 one hundred and fifty pupse, have, this winter, yielded six. The trees 

 are ash, sycamore, elm, willow and poplar. Will the coming season 

 be a bad one for the imagines of arboreal feeders ? if not, where did 

 the larvae pupate ? They certainly are not in the usual places. I 

 infer that next season will be a good one for all but arboreal feeders, 

 as I have several times noticed that when the latter are abundant the 

 former are scarce, and dee vfisa. Has this been noticed Vjefore ? — Ibid. 



Tephrosia crepuscularia (biundulaeia) in Ireland. — I think now 

 that our Irish Tephrosia is T. creinuictdaria (hiundularia), not T. his- 

 fortata. I have never met specimens before the Gth for 6th) of April, 

 and they straggle on to mid June, but are then mostly worn, showing, 

 apparently, that the emergence is spread over some weeks. The insect 

 is most plentiful about mid May, and appears as numerous in the 

 Northern districts as in the warm and humid South. — W. F. de V. 

 Kane, M.A., F.E.S., Drumreaske House, Monaghan. 



Phycis oelitella. — On looking over a number of knot-horns I 

 purchased at Bumey's sale, I found among the llhodojjhaea mavella a 

 fine specimen of this species. — J. B. Hodgkinson, F.E.S., Ashton- 

 on-Ribble. [There were so many foreign specimens of many of the 

 rarest British insects in Bumey's collection, that one would be rash 

 to suppose that any unlabelled specimen was really British, — Ed.] . 



