150 LEPIDOPTERA. 



below the average, and as for discoveries of larvae, there 

 appear to have been but two, namely, those of Miann literosa 

 and Phycis (?) davisellus (or Pempelia albariella, which- 

 ever it is); the former described, as well as captured and 

 discovered, bj Mr. Porritt, the latter described bj Mr. 

 Buckler from larvae forwarded by Mr. Henry Bartlett, and 

 found by that gentleman upon furze, concealed in a fine, 

 loosely-spun, open web. For an account of these interesting 

 larvje the reader is referred to pages 88 and 89, respectively, 

 of the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, vol. ix. 



The rarities secured in 1873 maybe summed up as follow. 

 Vaiiessa Antiopa has of course occurred, and in respectable 

 numbers, though not in the profusion in which it exhi- 

 bited itself in 1872. It has not only shown itself in 

 autumn and spring but also in the winter, in January, when 

 it fell fainting, one Sunday morning, on to the hat of a good 

 young lady who was passing under some trees on her way 

 home from morning service somewhere in Norfolk. I do 

 not believe an artist or a poet could conceive a prettier 

 scene — the frosty weather — the landscape in general, and 

 the trees in pai^ticular — the church in the distance [I can 

 fancy I see it now]— the lady, young, good, and, I feel 

 certain, beautiful — the handsome butterfly, all form a tout 

 ensemble combined to charm and cheer. 



S. convolvuli has again been conspicuous for its scarcity ; 

 it has been met with only at Walthamstow and at Hudders- 

 field. Of C. celerio a few autumnal captures have been 

 made. Sesia allantiformis has been recorded as having 

 occurred at Greenhithe in July, 1872, and Dciopeia pul- 

 chella at Littlehampton in 1870. (Why will people risk 

 public disbelief as to the authenticity of their captures by 

 so long delaying the jDublication of their good fortune?) 

 Acronycta alni has been bred of course ; it always is bred, 



