354 THK ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Odonata and Lepidoptera at Watfokd, Herts. — JDuring a stay at 

 Watford in the first half of August, I observed the followmg dragou- 

 fiies in the neighbourhood : — ^^nchna yrandis, two ; one in Cassiobury 

 Park, and the other a few miles off. ^E. ci/anea, one. near Watford. 

 Si/mpetrKia Htridlatiiin = nihjata, two, near Tring. I had never seen 

 Tjjicmna cort/don on the wing, and Mr. Arthur Cottam, of Watford, very 

 kindly introduced me to thousands of the butterfly near Tring, on Aug. 

 yth. Another butterfly I had never seen before alive was Hcspcria 

 ttmiiiia, flying commonly enough with L. ronjdDH, L. fu^estis, and 

 />. alf.vis. Otlier Lepidoptera on the same habitat were Cronopteri/x 

 rJiaiiiiii (one. just out), Flnhidia hipuiutaria, and a specimen of Zijiicena 

 nlipcndtdce, which is an intergrade form midway between the type and 

 the variety vcnnux (Robson) with pale yellow spots and secondaries. 

 It was as follows — Primaries : basal spots normal in colour ; succeed- 

 ing spots gradually paler until terminating with the marginal one pale 

 yellow. Secondaries normal. Other butterflies I noticed in the Wat- 

 ford district were Vaiussa atalcotta, one. It seems as if it were not 

 going to be an atalaitta year, though I believe the species is not so 

 common here as at Chester. Thcda ic-alhion, several individual speci- 

 mens near Watford, and one in the town itself, L.an^iolKH (getting over), 

 Epiucjdiclc hniira, Puli/onniiatii^ phhccn^, ( 'mtrDH/iiipha jianipJiiliis (not so 

 large or so bright in colour as our Delamere and North Wales speci- 

 mens), and a few final examples of E. tithdiuix. I kept a sharp look-out 

 for Cnliax ediisa and ('. Jii/ale, but saw neither. Common " whites," 

 probably all or chiefly l^icris rapce, were plentiful through the district. 

 The weather all along was very warm and sunny until the 14th, when 

 it broke up with copious showers. — J. Akkle ; Chester. 



Notes ox Lepidoptera for September, 190L — The second brood 

 of SnieiintfiKs pupiiU larva?, which, as I previously mentioned {ante, 

 p. 258), emerged from the ova on August oth, have fed up very slowly, 

 and at the time of writing, out of thirty that I kept (having given 

 away the remainder), only seven have yet pupated. The first brood 

 not only fed up much more quickly, but also seemed more brisk and 

 lively : is the ditt'erence owing to the change in temperature ? A brood 

 of Amiiliidasi/.s betnlaria, from ova laid by a black female, have success- 

 fully come through, but, curiously enough, one solitary larva, though 

 apparently full-grown like the rest, went on eating for twenty-four 

 days after the others had gone down to pupate, and it was only on 

 Sept. 21st that he disappeared. On Sept. 4th I took a specimen of 

 Epinepht'lc iaiiira with a large patch of white on the left upper wing. 

 It is not in perfect condition unfortunately, but it is good enough to 

 set. It is a male, and the white patch is about the size of that on the 

 right upper wing of the variety figured in Newman's ' British Butter- 

 flies.' The other three wings are, however, perfectly normal. — F. A. 

 Oldaker ; Parsonage House, Dorking, Sept. 23rd, 1901. 



Lepidoptera at Farnborough, Kent, and Neighbourhood. — Com- 

 pared with last year, this season's collecting is almost nil. All 

 through the summer " sugar" seems to have had no attraction what- 

 ever. Some evenings, in fact, with every appearance of being most 

 favourable, have produced nothing. Last night (Sept. 23rd) I sugared 

 about fifty trees, &c., and examined them all five or six times, the net 



