294 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



April 10th, I took two specimens running over a pathway in 

 the sunshine on an excursion by themselves, so perhaps they 

 hunt for the nests of AplicBnog aster in the same manner as 

 Teretrius chases the Lyctus. And near Madrid, on the 24th 

 April, two specimens of E. ihericus, Brisout, were found under a 

 stone where there were only four or five ants and no nest that 

 could be seen within some distance. 



The following is part of my last winter's itinerary, and a 

 memorandum of my captures referred to in this note : — 



Hamman Eirha. — 17 February to March 3. Sternocoelis 

 fulvus, Lewis ; S. pimctulatus, Lucas ; S. cancer, Lewis ; Eret- 

 motus approximans, Fairmaire. 



Tlemcen. — 15 March to March 20. Sternocoelis setalosiis, 

 Reitter ; S. pectoralis, Lewis. 



Oran. — 20 March to March 24. Sternocoelis setidosus, Reitter. 



Tangier. — 27 March to April 11. Sternocoelis mauritanicus, 

 Lewis, acutangulus, Lewis ; S. arachnoides, Fairmaire ; Eretmotus 

 tangerianus, Marseul. 



Madrid. — 24 April. S. hispanicus, Brisout ; E. ihericus, 

 Brisout. 



Escorial. — 25 April to May 1. S. hispanicus, Brisout; S. 

 marseuli, Brisout ; Eretmotus ihericus, Brisout. 



St. Jean de Luz. — May 2. Hetcerius ferrugineus, Olivier. 



Wimbledon, September 1, 1888. 



A LEPIDOPTERIST'S MEMORANDA IN 1888. 



By J. B. HODGKINSON. 



In the month of March I brought all my breeding-pots indoors 

 to do a little forcing, so that my time later could be used for 

 collecting. On March 30th the first Nepticula gei appeared ; 

 after that I had a succession of species in that genus appearing ; 

 which came out in order as follows : — after gei, igjiohilella, 

 Jiodgkinsonii, centifoliella, lap)pomca, aucupariella, mlnusculclla, 

 gratiosella, p)ygm(Bella, oxyacanthella, desperatella, tibiclla, over 60 

 of this species ; previously I had only two bad specimens. Then 

 came out from the alder, glutinosella and alnatella ; from birch, 



