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pJiora jnlosa, Warren (2 females) ; Eudule hesperina, Burm. (1 female) ; 

 Macaria regnlata, Fab. (1 female) ; Pantherodes pardalaria, Guen. 

 (1 female) ; Bronchelia piudicaria, Guen. (1 female). There was also 

 a Tortricid altogether denuded and unrecognisable, and I think it 

 very likely that there were other Micro-lepidoptera unnoticed; on 

 these occasions the larger specimens are naturally selected. It will 

 be seen that all are insects of weak flight, whilst the more robust and 

 powerful insects are absent. I imagine the effect was due to a small 

 whirlwind (which might naturally arise in such weather) carrying 

 the insects up to some height and then drifting out to sea with them ; 

 it could not have been a strong one, as all active fliers were able to 

 escape. — Edward Meyrick ; Thornhanger, Marlborough, June 17th. 



Abundance of the Larv^ of Abraxas grossulariata at 

 HuDDERSPiELD. — I uoto from the current number of the ' Entomolo- 

 gist' (pp. 184 and 187) that Messrs. T. A. Blenkarn and L. W. New- 

 man record the larvae of Abraxas grossulariata as having been exces- 

 sively scarce in the South of England this spring. Here there has 

 been no lack of them. From one market-garden close to the town I 

 have had six thousand larvae and pupae, and could probably have had 

 twenty thousand from the same garden had there been time to pick 

 them off, or to manage them when collected ! They were full-fed 

 unusually early this year, and at the beginning of May a schoolboy 

 collected them for me in the evenings, &c., after school hours. On 

 his eai'lier visits he said he could collect them faster than he could 

 count them, then suddenly two pairs of cuckoos took up their quarters 

 in the garden, when at once it became a race as to whether he or the 

 cuckoos should get most ! The cuckoos beat him by a long way, for in 

 a few days they had practically cleared off the lot. The owner of the 

 garden told me the cuckoos never left it, and seemed to be almost 

 always feeding on the caterpillars, except when the two pairs were 

 quarrelling over them, which, when they came near each other, they 

 often did, and made plenty of noise over it ! Probably they never 

 before had such a time in their lives. Large numbers of the goose- 

 berry-bushes were absolutely stripped of every vestige of leaf, and 

 many of the currant-bushes also suffered terribly. I never before 

 saw anything like it with this species. — Geo. T. Porritt ; Dalton, 

 Huddersfield, June 6th, 1912. 



MoNOCHAMUs GALLOPROviNCiALis, OHv., IN Hackney. — On May 

 30th a living specimen of this longicorn was found in the analytical 

 laboratory at Messrs. W. S. Bush & Co. 's works. Ash Grove, Hackney. 

 In the morning, a boy picked up a duster off a bench, when the 

 beetle nipped him. Mr. L. Slarm, one of the analysts, secured the 

 insect, which was then forwarded to Mr. C. J. Gahan, who has kindly 

 identified it as above. He also adds that he does not remember any 

 previous record of the beetle having been captured in this country. — 

 J. 0. Braithwaite ; 18, Warren Eoad, Chingford. 



[M. galloprovincialis, Oliv., is very like M. sutor, L., and it is 

 quite possible that some of the records of the latter species really 

 apply to the former. It is distinguished from sutor by having a 

 naked triangular spot at the base of the scutellum, instead of a line 

 extending right up to the apex, and by having the acetabula of the 



ENTOM. — JULY, 1912. li 



