124 THE entomologist's record. 



convince me of its occurrence there. When I asked what had heen 

 done with them, he told me the boys employed in the field had played 

 "tip-cat " with them ! ! the pup.e of atrujios taking the place of the 

 " cat," I presume ? His disgust was nearly equal to my own, when 

 informed what they were worth, I saw him again a few days after, 

 and he had obtained three or four more pupie, but unfortunately — 

 with one exception — they were all more or less damaged. The perfect 

 one was forced, and although it showed signs of life for a week or two, 

 it eventually succumbed to the rough handling it had received. — 

 W. Grover, Guildford. March, 1897. 



Tephrosia bistort ATA AT Keading. — It may interest your readers 

 to know that I took, on March 21st, two specimens of T. histortata in 

 the wood in which, in July last, Mrs. Bazett got eight specimens of 

 so-called second brood of 7'. crejmscidaria (biumlidaria). When these 

 specimens were exhibited, Mr. Adkin and yourself were of opinion that 

 they were examples of the second brood of T. hUtnrtnta, although this 

 species was stated not to occur in the woods. It looks as though Mrs. 

 Bazett and her supporters will have to agree with your conclusion, and 

 give up the " notion " that the specimens were those of a second brood 

 of T. crcptiscidaria, Ent. Hcc, viii., p. 223. Since March 21st, I 

 have taken two more specimens of T. biiitortata in the same woods. 

 They have all been taken in or close to a larch plantation, right in 

 the middle of a beech wood, interspersed with oak. I have looked over 

 the beech, but have not found T. bistortata there nor, up to the present 

 this year, T. crcimscidana (biundidaria), although the latter species is 

 frequently common in this wood in the latter part of April and in 

 May. We shall get this in three weeks' time. The time of appearance 

 of the T. bistortata in these woods coincides with that of the species in 

 our best-known T. bistortata locality. Mr. Hamm took the latter 

 species in the latter place on March 21st and 22nd, in fine condition. 

 Mr. Holland has seen my specimens, and is satisfied. — J, Clarke, 26, 

 Zinzan Street, Reading. Ajnil -ith, 1897. 



Early collecting notes. — licadinff.— ]\it<Jr:ii>us rrrsirolnr was out 

 on the heath on March 19th, the earliest record here. — J. Clarke. 



I have been successful in rearing Kndrovns rcrsicahir. I found a 

 female on April 6th, 1896, and have bred, from ova laid by her, some 

 very fine specimens during the last month. I have also got fertile ova 

 from the progeny. — W.Butler, Hayling House, Reading. April, 1897. 



®Mtuarn. 



ALBERT HOUGHTON, Died Feb. 23rd, 1897. 



Those whose habit is to visit Wicken during the collecting season 

 will, in future, miss a familiar face and voice. Mr. Albert Houghton, 

 who is so well known to many as one of the professional collectors of 

 that district, died on February 23rd. I have many recollections of 

 his genial humour and kindly readiness to help, both in pointing out 

 good localities in his neighbourhood, and also with his sugar and 

 lighting apparatus in the fens. He had a great knowledge of the 

 habits of the insects of his own locality. By careful and diligent 

 searching he discovered, a few years ago, a locality in which he took 

 many specimens of Tapinostola concolur. He never despaired of re- 

 discovering Aijrutis subrosca, and during the years 1894-5 worked hard 



