NOTES, CAPTURES, ETC. 2S') 



re-discovered last month, by Mr. E. G. Meek, in a fresh locality, 

 at some little distance from the previous one. As is usually' the 

 case with these isolated colonies of Zygsente, there is a slight 

 difference to be noticed in the specimens when a good series is 

 compared with the old specimens, The difference is in two 

 particulais : 1st, tliat the border of the hind wings is broader; 

 and 2ndl3', that the upper middle spot is long, instead of round, 

 in a larger number of specimens than was the case with the 

 specimens from the old locality, these differences not necessarily 

 occurring in the same specimens. Typical Z. trlfolii and inter- 

 mediate forms were flying with them. — 0. A. Bhiggs ; 55, Lincoln's 

 Inn Fields, August 17, 1H88. 



Plusia ciiuyson in Hants. — I took a fine specimen of this 

 moth, near Winchester, on the evening of August titli. There is 

 much hemp-agrimony near the spot. — F. E. Warner ; Cliff 

 Villa, Sandown, Isle of Wight, August 17, 1888. 



The Abundance op Plusia gamma. — I can fully corroborate 

 the various accounts, recently published in the ' Entomologist,' 

 as to the unusual number of Plusia gamma this season. Since 

 the end of May I have noticed them wherever I have been 

 collecting. In the fields they rise at every step ; but it is in the 

 garden at dusk that I have seen them in such abundance. One 

 evening, about the middle of June, I counted eighteen specimens 

 hovering over a small patch of Slleite ijencUda, while numbers 

 were seen at pinks and other flowers. Many of those I captured 

 were worn, and presented a very washed-out appearance. I should 

 not like to say, positive!}', that they were hybernators, but their 

 condition seemed to point strongly to that condition. — W. H. 

 Blaber; Sunnyside, Groombridge, Sussex, July 17, 1888. 



Breeding of Bombyx rubi. — Having successfully reared a 

 good many perfect insects of this species from larva? found last 

 year, I venture to make known the plan I followed, in the hope 

 that it may be of use to others. I got a strong wooden box, 

 about a foot square and the same in depth, and sunk it about 

 four inches into the ground. I then made a frame of wood and 

 nailed some perforated zinc to it for a cover : and having got a 

 good turf with heath growing on it, 1 planted it in the box, put 

 the larvie in, and left them to their own devices. They went 

 down into the earth immediately, and re-appeared to spin their 



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