154 THK ENTdMOI.OOIst's liECORD. 



deserted. C. di mi inula, however, though apparently enjoying the 

 conifrey, did not confine its feasting to that plant, but also severely 

 lacinated the adjoining stinging-nettles. How many more plants are 

 comprised in the )Uf)iii of C. (Uniiinula further observation will, per- 

 haps, some day record. There is, at least, one thing certain about its 

 /lahit.at, it will only settle down on a secluded hill, or a hillside wood, 

 where a good blow of fresh air generally prevails, with a large 

 assortment of diti'erent orders of plants. — J. Merrin, F.E.S., 2, Oak- 

 leigh Villas, Barnwood Lane, Gloucester. 



New food-plant for Tiliacea aurago. — On March 28th, I found 

 a few larvje of 7'. anra(/o had emerged, and, as the beech-buds were 

 not even expanded, and maple unavailable, I tried them on sycamore, 

 on which they have since fed without further trouble. — W. E. Butler, 

 Heading. 



Endromis versicolor bred. — I have bred a few very fine Endromis 

 versicolor, from eggs obtained from a female taken here by myself on 

 April 6th last. — Ibid. 



Agrotis cinerea. — With regard to Mr. Nash's capture of /U/rotis 

 cincrca in this district [Kntoin., p. 115), I may say that I recorded the 

 species from this district {Entom., xxvii., p. 71). I also captured 

 three specimens last year. — Ibid. [The note to which our corres- 

 pondent refers is a strange mixture in which Gloucestershire and 

 Beading insects are all recorded from Reading, due, Mr. Nash informs 

 us, to a printer's error. With regard to the record of A. riucrca, Mr. 

 Nash goes on : " A. riucrca is, I believe, considered a Cotswold insect." 

 Now, one would ask, as the record is made in a scientific magazine, 

 how this belief originated? That the insect occurs in the Cotswolds 

 is well-known, but the species is par e.vccllence a Lewes and Wye 

 insect. The recent records for the species are Reading (7'/«^rtw., xxvii., 

 p. 71); Winchester (7<7««. 7iVr,, ii., p. 807; iii., pp. 13B and 1G2) ; 

 Isle of Wight [Ent. liec, ii., p. 1(52) ; Chinnor Hill {Ent. Ecc, ii., 

 p. 164) ; Swansea {Ent. Eec, vi., p. 41) ; Brighton {Ent. Rec, v., p. 

 305) ; etc.— Ed.] . 



Lophopteryx carmelita at West Wickham. - At West Wickham, 

 on April 19th, I took a very fine specimen of L. raruuiita, on the 

 trunk of a pine tree. — Albert Sampson, 71, Pownall Road, Dalston. 



Acherontia atropos. May I, though somewhat tardily, add to the 

 records of the capture of Acherontia atropos, last autumn, two speci- 

 mens, viz., a larva taken on August 7th, 1896, which pupated a few 

 days afterwards, but was unfortunately " stung," and a pupa taken in 

 the first week in October, 1896, which subsequently died? Both 

 specimens wore taken at Seaford, Sussex, by my friend. Dr. H. N. 

 Evans, of that town, Avho kindly presented them to me. — H. Ainslie 

 Hill, F.Z.S., F.E.S., 9, Addison Mansions, Kensington, W. 



Early appearances of Lepidoptera. — On April 22nd I had brought 

 me a fine specimen of Smerintlins tiliae, which had been taken from 

 one of the electric arc lamps here, and during the last week I 

 have obtained from the same source another S. tiliae, four ( 'crura 

 rinula ( J ), two Cucullia rerbasci, and one very fine Dr>/mo7iia cluuniia 

 {3). Are not all these remarkably early captures ? — L. L. Winter- 

 BOTHAM. Cheltenham. April 'dOth, 1897. 



Dasycampa eiibiginea and other spring insects at Reading. — 

 During ^^larch I sugared regularly every week, in the hope of taking 



