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solidaginis is a little uncertain as to the time of its appearance. 

 This year I took my first specimens on August 21st ; last year 

 they were getting past their best on August 18th; and in 1886 

 I got them in fine condition on August 26th. — [Rev.] C. F. 

 Thornkwill ; The Soho, Burton-on-Trent, September 12, 1888. 



[Calocampa solidaginis comes to sugar freely in Scotland, and 

 would, doubtless, on Cannock Chase. — J. T. C] 



Urapteryx sambucaria, Larva of. — On the morning of 

 October 12th I found a nearly full-grown larva of U. sambucaria 

 on the stem of a chestnut-tree in the park, four feet above the 

 ground. There was no ivy in the vicinity, but plenty of elder- 

 berry at a distance of about thirty yards. I have never heard of 

 this insect feeding on chestnut leaves. — A. Knoblauch ; 32, 

 Tennyson Place, Bradford, Yorks. 



BOARMIA GEMMARIA, VAR. PERFUMARIA, IN YORKSHIRE. — In 



the ' Entomologist,' page 248, is a statement of mine to the 

 effect that Boarmia gevimaria, var. perfumaria, "is almost 

 entirely confined to the London district." Towards the end 

 of last month, but too late for correction, I learned that it was 

 found in Yorkshire, as I received specimens from Mr. Young 

 which had been bred from Rotherham larvae. On the appearance 

 of my note, Mr. Porritt was good enough to send me a long 

 series of dark specimens, bred from larvas found in his own 

 garden in Huddersfield. The larvse were fed on ivy, as also were 

 those from which Mr. Young bred his specimens. Mr. Porritt 

 informs me that it is the usual form taken in the Hudders- 

 field district. He writes : — " Your statement in the current 

 number of the ' Entomologist,' that the var. perfumaria of B. 

 rliomhoidaria is almost confined to the London district, has 

 somewhat astonished me, for I thought you knew it was the 

 only form we get hereabouts, and I believe throughout the 

 south of the West Riding. I send with this some specimens 

 bred from ivy in my own garden this year, which are probably 

 a fair representation of the Huddersfield form." These speci- 

 mens were slightly darker perhaps than the general run of 

 our London ones, but there is no difference between them and 

 the darkest of my specimens. On the strength of my statement 

 that I consider it simply a case of " protective " melanism, I 

 should not be surprised now to find that it was found in most 

 manufacturing districts. — J. W. Tutt ; Westcombe Park, S.E. 



