'268 THE kntomologist's rkcord. 



CoLiAs EDUSA AND Pyrameis cardui. — As the occurrence of these 

 uncertain species is always worth recording, I should like to state that 

 I saw a single specimen of each of these species at Sherringham, near 

 •Cromer, during the second week of August. — (Mrs.) Rosa E. Page, 

 B.A., 25, Casella Road, New Cross, S.E. 



Notes from the York district. — The season at York has been 

 fairly good, considering the amount of collecting I have been able to 

 do. I made one or two visits to the sallows with Mr. G. C. Dennis, 

 in the hope of obtaining PacJinobia leiicof/rapha, but our anticipations 

 were not fulfilled, for we had not the pleasure of making its acquaint- 

 ance ; scarcely a moth of any description was to be seen. This was 

 somewhat disappointing, believing as we did that the moths were 

 there, but the uncertainty of flight is always a matter to be reckoned 

 with ; some nights moths are swarming at the sallows, the following 

 night, equally favourable in the eyes of the collector, although the 

 moths appear to have a different opinion, for they are absent, and I 

 am afraid the reason "why" will never be unravelled. At home, 

 however, I had the pleasure of breeding a long series of I'. lcur(i</raitha, 

 from ova obtained the previous season. I also bred a number of 

 TaeniocamiKi puimJeti, also obtained thus, and amongst them were 

 darker specimens than I had ever bred before, approaching the dark 

 forms of Taeniocampa in^tahilU. During the first week of June, T. 

 pnpnleti larvfB were fairly common and full fed, and with them were a 

 few larvjB of Tct/iea subtiisa. Larvee of Hi/ljernia dcfuliaria and Pliuialia 

 pilnmria were plentiful. On .June 10th, Mr. S. Walker and I made our 

 first visit to Askham Bog, where sugar was fairly productive, several 

 Acronicta leporina, Apauwa Hnanunis and Hadeiia suam occurring, the 

 two latter species more common than in previous years. One 

 ('hoerocainpa elpenor^ a few Leucania biipuilens, and others, also ap- 

 peared, but Pldbiilapterii.v rittatn was not so plentiful as in 1896. 

 Two days after this we made a second visit, but there was little to be 

 seen, and nothing worth recording. We did not visit the Bog again 

 until the 26th of the same month, when we found sugar very attrac- 

 tive and moths absolutely swarming, and there was more variation 

 than we had ever noticed before. Ai/rotis e.rddmationis, of course, 

 took the prize in point of numbers, but certainly there were some nice 

 forms amongst them, and we obtained a few nice aberrations, some in 

 which the reniform and orbicular united together and formed a longi- 

 tudinal dark streak. Thirty-two species of Noctuids were observed, 

 and as many as 70 or 80 moths noticed on one patch of sugar, battling 

 and struggling in order to partake of the banquet prepared for 

 them, amongst them being A. Icporina, H. snasa, Caradrinn morpheus, 

 A. nnanimU, Xijlophasia suhliistris, Agrotis nviricans, Noctua riihi — 

 nice red forms — Ccriiio matura, and many others. It was certainly 

 gratifying to examine these patches of life, although the species were 

 common, with the anticipation always present of finding something 

 unique in the way of variety. Other nights proved equally attractive ; 

 I took a beautiful yellow form of N. ruhi. Day collecting in the early 

 months was not very productive. Tt'phrnna crepuscularia (biundularia) 

 was somewhat scarcer than usual, but I bred a very long and variable 

 series of this species ; the variation, extending from dark to light, was 

 very great, many fine mottled forms were amongst them, different from 

 any I have noticed before. Abrn.vas ulmata this season was, I think, 



