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black and brown forms occur in Ireland. I possess in my collection a black 

 upecinien of tliis species which I took under a stone at Fleshwick Bay, near 

 Port Erin, ou June 21st, 1914. The brown form occurred to me at Port 

 St. Mary in the same month. — Wm. J. Fokdham, The Villa, Bubwith, Selby, 

 Yorks: Sept. ISth, 1917. 



Note oil lleterocerus brif.annicus Kiac. — My friend M. Reue Oberthiir Iims 

 recently sent me several specimens of Heterocents marifiinus (nier., captured 

 by himself on the Channel coast, iu the Anse de Moldrey, Monchy, on 

 Julyi^4th last, with a note statin;^' that they are certaiidy conspecific with 

 1[. brifnnnicii.f Kuw., the types of which are in his possession. Guerin's type 

 of H. maritimus was from Trt5port, Normandy, and those of Kuwert's species 

 from Scotland and our southern coast. Brisout, in 1873, added Andalucia and 

 Algeria to tlie distribution of H. maritimus. This small Heterocerus stands in 

 most of our collections under the name sericans Kies., an insect with the same 

 number of juints to the antennae, viz. eleven, seven of which form the club. 

 Kuwert's name, in any case, falls as a synonym, but whether we really have 

 the true sericans in Britain has still to be ascertained, as remarked by Fowler 

 in 1891 (Col. Brit. Isls. v, Appendix, p. 463). My specimens of H. maritimus 

 are from Dumfries, Belfast, Gravesend, Sheppej^ Cowes, and Hastings. I al-jo 

 have it from Gibraltar (/. /. Walker). — G. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking- : 

 *S>/;^ IQth, 1917. 



Arena octavii Fauv. on the Laneaxhire coast. — Whilst recarding a short 

 series of Phi/tosus balticus, taken by me some years ago (1902) near Soutliport, I 

 detected a stranger amongst them. Upon a closer investigation I suspected 

 it to be A7'ena octavii, and Mr. E. A. Newbery, to whom I sent the specimeuj 

 kindly confirmed my suspicions. I believe the species has not previously been 

 recorded from a locality so far north as Lancashire. — li. Wilding, 52 a Orrell 

 Lane, Aintree, Liverpool : Sept. 1917. 



Sphinx concolvuli Linn, in Lancashire, Cheshire, and Yorkshire. — The 

 following records of Sphinx conrohmli, recently taken in the district imme- 

 diately to the south of Manchester and on the Yorkshire coast, may be of 

 interest. On August 26th a female was picked up in Old Tratford, Manchester, 

 and brought to Mr. G. F. Gee ; it laid a few eggs whilst in his possession, and 

 the larvae appeared on September 15th. Mr. H. de W. Marriott informs me 

 that he was shown two that had been taken at Sale, Cheshire, on or about 

 August 31st, and on that date a female Avas found on a gate-post in Bowdon, 

 Cheshire, and was brought for my inspection by Mr. K. Nuttall. Ou Si p- 

 tember 10th Mr. J. C. Thurgarland sent me one which he had captured iu 

 Ilale, Cheshire, a few days before, when at dusk it was settling ou an old grey 

 gate-post. Mr. G. W. Temperley tells me that at the end of the first week in 

 September, he found one dead in the gardens on the sea-front at Scarborongh, 

 Y'orkshire. As no June or July immigration appears to have been noticed, it 

 is probable that these moths had recently arrived. — T. A. Coward, Bowdon, 

 Cheshire: Sept. 1917. 



Black pupae of Ahra.vas yrossulariata. — Last year (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1916, 

 p. 206) I recorded the occurrence from my wild larvae of Abraxas grossulariata 

 of a few pupae of an uniformly glossy black colour, without any trace of the 



