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on a wooden shed in this town on tlie morning of August 26th. The 

 tips of the fore wings were damaged, owing to the moth liaving been 

 confined in a small box ; otherwise it is a fine specimen. — Lloyd 

 Chadwick ; 7, Northgate Street, Warwick. 



H. ARMIGEEA AND S. CONVOLVULI IN GLAMORGANSHIRE. I 



should like to record taking H. armigera while sugaring on the 

 sea-coast near Bridgend on August 15th. The moth is in good con- 

 dition ; I only know. of one other specimen having been taken in 

 South Wales, viz., by Sir J. T. D. Llewelyn, of Penllergare, near 

 Swansea. There seems to have been a considerable invasion of 

 S. convolvuli this year. My son, H. E. David, netted two fine speci- 

 mens off the flowers of the white tobacco plant, on August 17th and 

 19th, at the same place as I took H. armigera. I also had two other 

 moths given to me, which were found at rest in the daytime, one 

 fromFoumon Castle grounds, Glam., and the other from East Knoyle, 

 Wiltshire. — E. N. David ; Yscallog, Llandaff, Glamorgan. 



CocciD^E AFFECTING EuBBER Trees. — In the ' Journal of Eco- 

 nomic Biology,' May, 1911, Mr. E. E. Green has a very interesting 

 paper on Coccidte found on rubber trees in Ceylon. In two instances, 

 however, I venture to disagree with his nomenclature, as follows : 



Cardiococcus castillocB (Green) : Inglisia castilloce, Green, t. c. 

 p. 29. 



Lepidosaphes rubrovittatus, Ckll. 1905 (Philippine Is.) : Mytilaspis 

 fasciata, Green, t. c. p. 31. — T. D. A. Cockerell. 



A Second Brood of L. sibylla.— To-day, while I was hunting 

 for larvae among young aspens in a wood not far from here, I was 

 greatly surprised to see Limeniiis sibylla settle on a bramble-leaf 

 close to me. I watched it for some moments wdiile it gently raised 

 and lowered its v^ings, and then it floated gracefully off to another 

 leaf. " This surely cannot be a retarded specimen," I said to myself; 

 " it is far too late for that ; it must be one of a second brood." I 

 went on, and in the course of an hour saw six or seven more, all 

 quite fresh and exceptionally fine. One particularly large female 

 allowed me to approacli quite close to her, and I tried to catch her 

 betw^een my finger and thumb as she sat on a leaf, but she would not 

 quite allow this piece of familiarity, and if she had I should not have 

 kept her, as the butterfly is getting very scarce in this neighbour- 

 hood. Of course these were all individuals of a partial second brood, 

 due to the abnormally hot, dry summer, but I believe it is an unpre- 

 cedented event, for I can find no records of any second brood in any 

 of my entomological books, though I have not been through all the 

 back volumes of the magazines. I should like to know if anyone 

 else has ever met with, or heard, of a second brood. It does not 

 appear to be double-brooded on the Continent, though its near ally, 

 cdmilla, is undoubtedly so in the South. The first butterfly I noticed 

 this year was on June 14th. I was in the wood on several occasions 

 during August and the beginning of this month, but there were none 

 about then, so those I saw to-day can only have just emerged. — 

 Gervase F. Mathew; Lee House, Dovercourt, September 19th, 1911. 



