op [February, 



numbers every year, chiefly at wood sage. If this plant is about, 

 sugaring for the moth is hardly worth while, as, by examining the 

 flowers after dark with the aid of a lantern they may be secured without 

 difficulty." As illustrating the comparative attractiveness of the two 

 baits, I give the folloAving extracts from the same Diary : — " 1905, 

 July 15th, 7 imirescema : 6 on sage, 1 on sugar ; July 20th, 6 on sage ; 

 July 21st. 10: S on sage; July 26th, 15: 10 on sage ; August 1st, 10: 

 8 on sage ; August 5th, 4 on sage," and so on. No doubt that when we 

 first started this insect was not nearly so plentiful as it subsequently 

 became. The second or third week in July generall}' finds it well out, 

 though I have taken it earlier, and sometimes it continues in fine 

 condition to the end of August or even later. 



Leucania cdbipuncta.- — I si^ppose South DcA'on would generally be 

 regarded as quite a good locality for this insect, but, though we have 

 worked for it over many years, we have not taken a great number. 

 In 1897 we got 4 ; 1899, 3 ; 1900, a good year, about a dozen ; and 

 so on — a few, as a rule, most seasons. Generally speaking, as a i-esult 

 of persevering sugaring in late August and into September, albipuncta 

 will be found to come sooner or later on still, dark, and warm nights. 

 It is a great mistake to leave the sugars early, as, although it may be 

 taken on one's first round, this moth continues to visit the sweets all 

 night, and we have found it on om* w^ay home after midnight on the 

 patches of other collectors who had long since gone home and were 

 probably then in bed and asleep. Personally, I have never taken more 

 than three in a single evening, but my friend Mr. Gr. T. Porritt once 

 had the good fortune to get five one night on the very ground I have 

 many times sugared. No one who has once seen alhipuncta in the 

 lantern's rays could possibly mistake it for JL. lithargyria, which it is 

 said to resemble. Not only does it look an altogether superior insect, 

 but the spots stand out very conspicuously like points of pure white. 



[To he continued.) 



Paraphytosus : a correction. — In my description of this genus (Ent. Mo. 

 31ag. 1917, p. 125) I stated that the tongue was simple. Examinatiou, however, 

 of other px-epnratious of the mouth-parts shows that a small, acutely triaugular 

 excision of tlie apex is present, and therefore that the statement that this 

 structure is simple is incorrect. — M. Cameron, 7 Blessingtou Rd., Lee, S.E. 13 : 

 Jamiary Qth, 1919, 



Bryocharis {MeyacroHus) analis Payk. var. merdaria Gyll. in Walf^. — Tliis 

 well-mai-ked colour variety differs from the type form in having a bright red 



