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It was also found on an elm, Sept. 19th.=:= Cerastis (= Orrhodia) ruhiginea, 

 one bred on Sept. 28th, from a chrysalis found the day before, under a 

 stone: Plusia gamma, c^oxamon ; Hypena obesalis {!) ; Acidalia contiguata 

 (1): Boarmia occitanaria (2), B. consortaria, a variety (6); Gnophos obscu- 

 raria, a somewhat light variety (4); Phasiane scutularia (7); Enconista 

 agaritharia [S); OrthoUtha cervinata (1), 0. nimiiata (1); Lygris prunata 

 (2), flying among rocks, and plunging into the shrubs and herbage ; Cidaria 

 galiata{'6), C.frustata (3). — F. Bromilow ; Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France, 

 Feb. 16th, 1894. 



Lepidopteka observed in Easter Week, 1894.— On Easter Monday 

 last, whilst walking from Northwood to Rickmansworth, through Moor 

 Park, we saw two hybernated specimens of Vanessa polychloros, also 

 hybernated specimens of V. urticcB, V. io, and Gonopteryx rhamni. On 

 palings we found Anticlea badlata and Hybernia progemmaria. The place 

 where we saw V. polychloros must have been just on the borders of 

 Middlesex and Herts, in which county actually I do not know. Is this 

 species included in the list of Middlesex Rhopalocera ? On the following 

 day, at Weybridge (St. George's Hill), we captured a fine series of Brephos 

 parthenias, two very worn examples of Trachea pinlperda on piue trunks, 

 one V. polychloros, and some very worn specimens of H. progemmaria. 

 This morning one Asphalia ridens was bred from larvae taken at Berk- 

 hampstead last season. — George E. Bergman ; 29, Priory Road, Kilburn, 

 N.W., April 8th, 1894. [Mr. Cockerell included F. polychloros in his 

 " Preliminary List of the Insect-Fauna of Middlesex " {vide Entom. xxiv. 

 p. 31).— Ed.] 



Remarks on the Early Season and on " Assembling." — I think the 

 present season is earlier than last. I saw Pieris rapcB here on March 25 th, 

 several Pararge egeria in Dorsetshire on March 31st, and Ligdia adustata 

 (2) here this evening. I have been trying " assembling " lately with 

 Brephos parthenias and Amphidasys stratarla {prodromaria). With the 

 first-named I had no success, but of the latter I took about fifteen males 

 on March 21st, and six on another evening shortly after that date ; on each 

 occasion the time was between 9 and 10 p.m., and the specimens captured 

 were in good condition. — W. M. Christy ; Watergate, Emsworth, Hants, 

 April 5th, 1894. 



Nyssia hispidaria in Gloucestershire. — Not being able to find any 

 note of the occurrence of N. hispidaria in this county, let me record the 

 capture of twenty males and five females in the Forest of Dean, between 

 Feb. 3rd and March 11th, all at rest on oak trunks. Assembling proved 

 a failure, but the females all paired with captured males, and all deposited 

 ova. This moth seems to emerge rather late in the afternoon ; eight out 

 of the twenty were drying their wings when found ; time, between 4 and 

 5 p.m. Last year I diligently searched the trees in the same locality several 

 times, but, probably owing to my visits having been made too early in the 

 day, took one specimen only. — N. F. Searancke ; Mitcheldean, Gloucester. 



'■'- [We are indebted to Mr. Bromilow for sending us these interesting spe- 

 cimens for examination, and believe that we may congi-atulate him on the 

 discovery of a new species nearly allied to Tceniocampa micnda, — Ed.] 



