CAPTURES AND FIELD REPORTS. I4t7 



'Entomologist.' On Dec. 27th, my brother brought me a fine female 

 specimen, which he had found in the Logie woods. He brought me 

 another on Jan. 7th, from the same locality. — Wm. Reid ; Pitcaple, N.B., 

 March 5th, 18<J4. 



On the 2-tth inst. my bi'other took a very good specimen of Phlocjophora 

 meticulosa, on some palings in the high road here. The moth was very 

 lively when boxed. Can tliis be a hybernated specimen, or one of the early 

 brood? — Herbert C. Gentry; '22, Goulton Road, Lower Clapton, N.E., 

 Feb. 26th, 1894. 



I found a male Phigalia pilusaria {pedaria), on Jan. 7th, on a lamp- 

 post in Ealing. — R. S. St. John; Duncliffe, Hanger Lane, Ealing, W., 

 Feb. 27th, 1894. 



I see in the ' Entomologist ' for February {ante, p. 71) the report of an 

 early capture of Phujalia pedaria. I had the pleasure of taking a spe- 

 cimen of this species, on a lamp in Sherwood Rise, on Jan. 13th. The 

 weather was very mild then, and I have had Eiidromis versicolor and 

 Asphalia Jlavicornis come out in the breeding-cage this week, which I think 

 very unusual. — Thos. A. Carlyon ; Counemara House, Alexander Street, 

 Sherwood Rise, Nottingham, Feb. 17th, 1894. 



Lepidoptera at Light in Suffolk in 1893. — I was interested in 

 reading the remarks on captures at light made last year by an Ipswich 

 correspondent {ante, p. 26), and can fully endorse the statement as to the 

 prevalence of Noctua c-nigrum, of which my first capture is recorded on 

 May 8th. There was a noticeable decrease in the numbers of Plusia 

 gaimna as compared with 1892, and the same may be said of Thyatira 

 derasa and TriplitBua pronuba. The " glorious " evenings at ivy and sallow 

 last year might be called a fraud. Lamps at early morning, during May, 

 were very productive, but after that time results were not so satisfactory, 

 presumably owing to the increase of the feathered visitants, as I noticed 

 numbers of swallows and other birds fly off the lamps on approaching. On 

 May 13th, from 4.30 a.m., I captured the following: — Smerinthus populi, 

 Exichelia jacobcECB (6), Pygcera bucephala (2), Orgyia pudibunda (1), 

 Arctia labricipeda (2), A.meiUhastri (7),Rumia cratjgata{2), Hemerophila 

 abruptaria, and Cilix spinula (2). E. jacobtccd canit; as a pleasant surprise, 

 as 1 was not aware of its being attracted to light. On May 15th I 

 caught another solitary specimen out of about seventy suburban lamps 

 visited, other captures being chiefly A. lubricipeda and A. menthastri. On 

 May 16th I added Cymatophora diluta. I may mention that I captured 

 two specimens of Btston hirtaria on April 12th, and one example on Dec. 

 27th. — Claude A. Pyett ; Thoruley Place, 28, Waterloo Road, Ipswich, 

 Jan. 24th, 1894. 



Dragonflies in the Chester District. — The three following species 

 are now added to the list for the Chester district (Entom. xxvi. 35): — 

 j^schna cyanea, one of the largest species, with two large yellow oval spots 

 on front of thorax; Platetrum depressum (Entom. xxvi. 288); and Calo- 

 pteryx splendens, with head, thorax, and body iridescent peacock-green, the 

 males having on all the wings a very wide smoky black blotch, central, but 

 situated nearest the outer margin, this blotch usually extending from the 

 costal to the inner margin ; females without the blotch, and wings usually 

 with a green tint. Total, 17 species out of the British total of, say, 37. — 

 J. Arkle ; Chester. 



