186 THE entomologist's record. 



Eho7v/iiii(s japonicus, which is grown in ahnost all the gardens here- 

 abouts as a foliage plant, covering the shrubs with unsightly webs, 

 whilst, later in the year, the imagines may be found in thousands on 

 the fences, not always of a pronounced white form, although Mr. 

 Adkin (P>w. Sth. Lond. Knt. Soc, 1907-8, pp. 83-84) notes it as H. 

 carinafiellm. — A. M. Cochrane, Lewisham. June 10th, 1908. 



Lepidoptera in North Kent. — The first brood of Hellinsia carpho- 

 dactijla is now appearing in confinement. On June 10th, a run over 

 the chalk downs also showed that the species was emerging in nature, 

 whilst a less expected capture was a fine Oxyptiluf. pam'dortyla. I was 

 also very satisfied at finding a larva of Odontia dentalis boring into the 

 stem of Echium rnhjare. On June 8th, I obtained a short series of Minoa 

 murinata at Chatham, but, though insects are coming out rapidly now, 

 they are few in numbers, and a walk through Chattenden Roughs 

 yesterday only resulted in my seeing one Zonosoma omicmnaria, a few 

 Cabera jmsaria, Acidalia aversata, and several of Scoparia autbit/iialis, 

 but not 50 lepidoptera altogether, whilst the larvfe of Chattendenia 

 w-album are exceptionally scarce. — J. Ovenden, Strood. June llt/i, 

 1908. [Larvas of Odontia dentalis were found just spinning their 

 puparia on June 24th. — J. 0.] 



Larval depredations at the tops of trees. — On Mondaj'-, June 

 1st last, a violent storm swept across the north end of the well-known 

 Chestnut Avenue in Bushey Park, near Teddington. The wind was at 

 its highest about 9"55 p.m., and, according to those on the spot at the 

 time, the whole of the 110 trees blown down were overthrown in about 

 three minutes. In one spot I counted three or four whitethorns, five 

 oaks, eleven elms, four chestnuts, and thirty-five limes. I found the 

 thorns had been snapped off a few feet above the ground, and that the 

 stems were much riddled by the borings of beetles. The other trees 

 were torn up by the roots. I was able to examine the topmost twigs 

 of some of the lime trees, three of which were just over eighty feet in 

 height. (Measured by stepping along beside the prostrate tree.) Many 

 of the topmost leaves were much eaten by larvae, though the leaves 

 attacked were not so numerous as those nearest the ground. I failed 

 to find any larvffi, but the wind and rain had no doubt destroyed many 

 of them. The opportunity of examining the highest leaves of such 

 tall trees does not often occur.— Alfred Sich. Jioie 11th, 1908. 



Hybernated Pyrameis atalanta. — On May 31st, at 5.42 p.m., I 

 have just seen Pi/raiiieis atalanta in the same sunny corner I usually 

 see one or more at this time of year. It was a very much hybernated 

 specimen, female. On June 4th I saw two more P. atalanta near the 

 same place as the first one reported, and one in the vale about a mile 

 off. — G. 0. Sloper, F.E.S., Westrop House, Highworth. June 'did, 

 1908. 



Irregularity in the feeding-up of larvae kept under identical 

 conditions. — In the last number {antea, p. 145) I noted the awakening 

 of the larvfie of Aporia crataei/i and LeKcoma i^alicis from hybernation, 

 quite at the end of April. With the first, I have not been too fortu- 

 nate. Sleeved out in the garden on Avild-crab, their numbers have 

 decreased until onlj'^ nine were left on June 11th (possibly the others 

 have been destroyed by earwigs, although I have found none in the 

 sleeves). These nine, however, are worth noting. On the morning 

 of June 13th one had just pupated, another had spun its silken pad 



