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as occurring there, and the specimens we took last month were all too fresh for us 

 to believe they could be immigrants. On the other hand Caradrina ambigua, which 

 I used to take on the same ground in the greatest profusion (two hundred a night 

 could easily have been obtained), seems to be gradually decreasing in numbers, and 

 this year probably less than a dozen altogether were seen by both of us. It really 

 seems as if this species, which for several years after its first appearance in Britain 

 increased in such rapidity, will before long disappear entirely. Common moths 

 were plentiful. Aqrotis saucia, in great variety, was the most abundant species, 

 and indeed took a good lead in point of numbers ; other species included Epunda 

 lutulenta, E. Uchenea, E. nigra, Polia fiavocincta, all of the dark var. meridional is, 

 as it occurs also in West Yorkshire, P. chi all very pale, Xylina petrificata and 

 many others. The two Orthopterons, Leptophyes punctatissima and Meconema 

 varium, were also frequent visitors to the sugar in about equal numbers. — Geo. T. 

 Porritt, Dalton, Huddersfield : October 2nd, 1908. 



Re-occurrence of Tortrix pronubana, Rb., at Bognor. — In Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 Ser. 2, xvi, 276 (1905), Mr. W. II. B. Fletcher chronicled the capture of a specimen 

 of Tortrix pronubana in his garden at Bognor on October 23rd, 1905, and, in proof 

 of the success attending the efforts of this attractive species te establish itself in 

 that locality, it seems worthy of mention that my friend has observed imagines of 

 T. pronubana in the same spot in September and October of 1906-7-8, and that, 

 during these last two years, he has seen them also in late June and early July. It 

 will be remembered that Mr. Robert Adkin has already recorded (Entom., xxxix, 

 265 [1906] ; xl, 162 [1907]) the insect, which appears to especially favour the 

 county of Sussex, as producing a summer as well as an autumn brood at Eastbourne. 

 Mr. Fletcher thinks it probable that, in his garden, Choisya ternata and Pittosporum 

 tobira are its chosen food-plants, for, during the earlier half of last August he 

 noticed therein several Tortricid larvae feeding on these shrubs. — Eustace R. 

 Bankes, Norden, Corfe Castle : October loth, 1908. 



Vanessa io, Sfc, at West Hartlepool.— On September 19th last I was much 

 pleased to see a One specimen of Vanessa io in my garden here, the only specimen 

 I have seen on the wing for 30 years ; it remained busily engaged flitting from 

 flower to flower of my French marigolds most part of the day, and I hoped to see 

 it again, but it came no more, and was probably devoured by the sparrows which 

 are sadly too numerous in the hedge close by. Upon looking into my breeding cage 

 (a large cofEn-like structure of wood and zinc) on October 3rd I was surprised to 

 find a fine male Dicranura bifida had emerged. I collected a few larvae last autumn 

 (1907), but imagined that all had emerged in June and July ; where this one had 

 pupated I am at a loss to know, but probably in some obscure corner of the box, 

 where it had been overlooked. Is not this a very unusual date for this species to 

 emerge? — J. Gardner, Laurel Lodge, Hart, West Hartlepool : Oct. 8th, 1908. 



Hibernation of Pyrausta xrealis. — In the Transactions of the Entomological 

 Society for 1907, p. 411, 1 called attention to the curious fact that the larvae of 

 Marasmarcha (a genus of Plume Moths, including the well-known phxodactyla 

 [now lumedavtyla]), hibernated in small cocoons, which they spin on the ground or 



