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nothing but houses in Islington. — S. Robinson ; Clayfield 

 Terrace, Winchmore Hill, N. 



Hemileuca DIANA, Packard. — On September 20th, last year, 

 I obtained a specimen of this fine moth in Mesa County, Colorado, 

 amongst oak-scrub {Quercus undulata), on the north slope of the 

 Grand Mesa. This species was originally described from Plum 

 Creek, Colo., in 1874, and is now generally united with H.juno, 

 Pack., of which it is perhaps a geographical race. It has not 

 previously been recorded from Mesa County. — T. D. A. Cockerell ; 

 West Cliff, Colorado, August 20, 1888. 



The Season of 1888. — Mr. White's note on the effect 

 of meteorological conditions upon insect life, published in the 

 September number of the ' Entomologist,' raises several questions 

 well worthy of attention, and I trust that the statistics of cap- 

 tures for which he asks may be forthcoming, as they will doubt- 

 less prove of interest. My own list of captures and emergences 

 from pupse is unfortunately scanty, yet there are a few entries in 

 my diary which may possibly aid the greater body of material 

 which others no doubt have at hand. On July 5th I took three 

 fresh specimens of Tephrosia crepuscidaria in a locality in which 

 the species is often found during March or April. On July 9th 

 a newly-emerged imago of Cucidlia umhratica was captured ; on 

 the 12th and 19th of the same month specimens of Chan'ocampa 

 elpenor emevgeA from pupse; on the IGth, Chelonia villica ; and 

 between the 24th and 80th, two Smerinthus ocellatus ; these pupge 

 were all kept in a summer-house with south aspect. On July 

 isth I found upon a fence a specimen of Acronycta viegaccphala, 

 with wings still unexpanded. All the above should certainly 

 appear in June in an ordinary season. In another breeding-cage, 

 in a room with south aspect, were four pupse of Dcilc2}]iila 

 euphorhice (Austrian); imagines from these emerged on July 19th, 

 August 2nd, 4th and 12th. June is the month usually assigned 

 to this species. At Guildford, on September 12th, Satyrus 

 semele, S. megcera, and Vanessa polychloros, were flying in tine 

 condition. It seems scarcely fair to make a comparison between 

 the hot dry summer of 1887 (when larvae undoubtedly hatched 

 and fed up with more than usual rapidity) with the sunless 

 season of this year, but I may just mention that on August 2nd, 

 1887, but few larvae of Euchelia jacobece were to be found, most of 



