loH THE entomologist's RECORD. 



been carefully nursed through the winter, and that hatched from eggs 

 laid by a $ captured between Useigne and Evolene in the Val 

 d'Herens, one observes scarcely any difi'erence in size, although 

 one might have expected the Swiss larvte to have been a little 

 behind, the parents not having been taken till well towards the 

 end of July ; the Swiss ones are, however, perhaps, a little 

 darker. These larvfe have kept on the move very nearly all the 

 winter, and only for a few weeks at the end of December and 

 in January were they really quite still. The Dartmouth larvfe 

 began to spin up on May 2nd. A few common Noctuid larvae 

 were noted, but no micro-larvae worth collecting were met with. On 

 the Hth, another lovely day. several I'ierh rapac were observed between 

 Torquay and Babbicombe, whilst Af/lais iirticae was busy sunning on 

 the flowers both at Torquay and IJabbicombe. With the exception of 

 a moth on the wing, crossmg the road between Torquay and Paignton 

 on the 6th, and which I believe must have been Brephos parthenias, 

 and one or two, apparently Tacniocainpa (jothica, on the lamps, none 

 of which were get-at-able, nothing else was observed during my stay. 

 Searching for small larv* was quite time wasted. The first Pieris 

 rapac noted in the southeast London district, was observed on April 

 25th, at Westcombe Park.— J. W. Tutt. Man 3'v/, 1904. 



BiSTON HiRTARiA IN SOUTH-EAST LoNDON. — Comiuon as I have seen 

 the imagines of lliston kirtana in the Lewisham and Lee districts on 

 the trunks of lime-trees, it was a new experience to me to see the <? s 

 quite abundant on the lamps on the still warm evening of April 17th. 

 All those knocked down for examination proved to be males. — Ibid. 



Hybernating LARVA OF EoTRicHA QUERCiFOLiA. — Larvsr of Kutricha 

 ijuercifnUa, reared from eggs sent me by Mr. T. Hall, from Croydon, 

 have been remarkably still all the winter, i.e., from mid-November till 

 towards the end of February, when they began to get a little restless, 

 and were supplied with twigs of plum and hawthorn, the bark of which 

 they stripped off evidently with great relish. Hawthorn buds with 

 the leaves just showing were available in late March, and plenty of 

 well-grown blackthorn and hawthorn by April 2nd at Torquay. They 

 fed up well till April 14th, when they began to rest, and were evidently 

 preparing for a moult. The first one changed on April 17th, and 

 presented a striking difference in its bright mottled coat and plentifully 

 distributed white hairs from the dull-looking hybernating-skin of 

 almost uniform tint and tiny dorsal orange dots ; the others followed 

 within the next two or three days, and since then have gone ahead at 

 a rare rate on wild plum. On May 2nd they measure respectively 

 Ifins., l|ins., Ifins., the large one evidently a ? , the middle one is 

 particularly plentifully marked with white, in fact, the three larvte are 

 very different in their appearance and the amount of white mottling, 

 although all have come from the same batch, and have been reared 

 under identical conditions. — Ibid. 



On THE WINTER HABITS OF CERTAIN PLUME LARV^.. LeIOPTILUS LIENIGI- 



ANUS : On April 3rd, 1904, I first saw two larva' of Leioiitilxs lieniji- 

 aniis after hybernation ; they were still in their winter dress, and no 

 more examples could be found in a place where, until mid-November, 

 they were common enough, in fact, only a few shoots of the foodplant 

 were above the ground. The two larvjc discovered were lying exposed in 

 the sun, but no trace of feeding could be observed. Where they hide from 



