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pupate earlier, for on July 9th, when I expected to get half-fed larvae, 

 I could only find some half a dozen full fed ones and two cocoons 

 with contained pupfe. Apparently they have been nothing like as 

 common this year as they were last, when I could have obtained six 

 times as many in the same time that it took me to find these nine. — 

 T. A. Baxter, St. Anne's-on-Sea. July dth. 



Habits of Tricopteryx viretata. — In our searchings for T. viretata 

 we several times came across a green form. The species is a somewhat 

 unsatisfactory insect for several reasons. When its wings are closed 

 and it is resting on a holly-trunk, which in our experience is its usual 

 resting-place, the specimens look in good condition, but when you set 

 them without the hind-wings to back them up they do not look nearly 

 as well. Again some of them, more especially the green form, as soon 

 as you look at them (and they are instantly lost in the changing 

 shadow) slide sideways off the trunk, others sit till boxed as quiet as 

 need be, while some will even sham death. There are hardly enough 

 specimens seen to teach one what to expect, so different is the behaviour 

 of different individuals. In the cabinet drawers the green form turns 

 much blacker as time goes on, till it has made me wonder if melanism 

 is taking place with them as with other species. — F. Fountain, 191, 

 Darwin Street, Birmingham. 



:^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



CoLEOPHORA artemisiella.^ — With regard to this species, it is a 

 good many years since I paid any attention to it. My experience quite 

 confirms the statement as to the difficulty of rearing the insect away 

 from the saltings and the great mortality among the larvas. I find 

 that in 1891 (my best year) I bred fifteen specimens, and have little 

 doubt but that the larva) were wintered in a large flower-pot fully 

 exposed to the weather.^ — F. G. Whittle, 7, Marine Arcade, Southend. 

 October 20th. 



Notes of the Season. — At Hailing, on August 18th, among a 

 scattered growth of Uelianthemnm, Rock-rose, I obtained a few speci- 

 mens of Mompha ('I'inea) iiiiscdla. The best example of this insect had 

 settled on my boot, while I was busy with a sandwich and enjoying 

 the fine view of the Medway, to be had from this favourite hunting- 

 ground of our late Editor, whose death we all so sincerely deplore. 

 ArtujreHthia i^einitestacella was very common among beech on the top of 

 the down. Larvae of Coleophora nutani'lla (infiatae) crept up from 

 flowers of Silene mjlata, Bladder Campion, gathered on this occasion. 

 I was again at Hailing on August 25th, and found larvfe of Aealla 

 {Pero7ieo) h>t/iana on Viburniuii lantcnio. The moths appeared in mid 

 October. On September 15th I had a very poor day at the same 

 locality, but I did find, quite exposed at the road side, among Bladder 

 Campion, the larv:c of IHantUoecia nana (roiis/u'isa). Salcbria (^li/nxlo- 

 phaea) foniKim is, in my experience, so uncommon in this part (South- 

 end) of Essex, that the occurrence of one larva on September 22nd, 

 caused me to work hard for more, but I could not find a second 

 example. Tortri.r pronubana, which was discovered here last year by 

 my poor friend the late Mr. Conquest, is quite the moth of the moment. 

 I have bred it pretty freely, the first emergence taking place on August 



