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AcHERONTiA ATROPOS IN LANCASHIRE. — A female specimen of 

 A. atropos was captured here on October 9th last, and another 

 example of the same sex on the 16th of that month. — T. Baxter ; 

 Min-y-don, St. Anne's-on-Sea. 



PcECiLOCAMPA popuLi IN OcTOBEE. — I took a specimen of P. 

 populi from off a street-lamp here, on October 23rd last. Is not this a 

 very early date ? — Edwin P. Sharp ; 1, Bedford WellEoad, Eastbourne. 



[This species is perhaps more frequent in November and December, 

 but it has been met with by others in the month of October. — Ed.] 



Pyg^ra anachoreta in Essex. — I see in ' Entomologist ' for 

 October, p. 250, that Mr. George P. Kitchener records the occurrence 

 of this species at Clacton, and observes that it appears to be a new 

 locality for the species, so he and other readers of your magazine 

 may be interested to hear of a previous capture in this county. On 

 September 26th last year, when beating for larvae in a wood in this 

 neighbourhood, I found half a dozen larvae of what I thought were 

 P. cur tula, spun up between leaves of aspen. They were rather 

 small, and I did not examine them very carefully. When I got 

 home they were sleeved on a branch of a poplar- tree in my garden, 

 and left there until they had become full-grown and had spun up, 

 when the cocoons were removed and placed in one of my breeding- 

 cages. Prom these, the following May, I bred two P. anacJioreta, 

 both males ; one P. curtula ; and three P. reclusa. — Gervase F. 

 Mathew; Dovercourt, Essex, November 3rd, 1908. 



Leucania vitellina in South Devon. — This species was taken 

 rather freely liere during September. My brother has captured 

 some, and a Paignton collector informs us that several were secured 

 in his neighbourhood. This is the first year we have seen more than 

 one specimen during the season. — J. Walker ; 3, Goodwin Terrace, 

 Carlton Road, Torquay. 



Agrotis lunigera in North Wales. — I have to record the 

 capture, at sugar, of two specimens of A. lunigera, at Penmaenmawr. 

 This I believe to be the first record for the species in that locality, 

 although I have taken it before at Abersoch. — R. Tait ; Ashton-on- 

 Mersey, Cheshire. 



Agrotis cinerea in Isle op Wight. — A. cinerea was taken in 

 larger numbers than usual at Freshwater this year, though they 

 were already showing signs of wear when I arrived on June 11th. 

 I have also had some success in breeding A. agathina this year, 

 finding that the larvae reared in a frame exposed to sun and with 

 plenty of side ventilation did much better than those reared in partial 

 shade and with top ventilation only ; many of these went mouldy 

 whilst in pupa.^R. Tait, Jun. 



Epunda lichenea in Sussex. — This species has occurred sparingly 

 in the neighbourhood of Eastbourne this season ; one at light on 

 October 1st, and a female at ivy on the 14th. I obtained about one 

 hundred ova from the latter. A previous occurrence at Abbots 

 Wood, some years ago, is recoi'ded, but with no further data, and I 

 have heard of none since.— Edwin P. Sharp ; 1, Bedford Well Road, 

 Eastbourne, Sussex, October 24th, 1908. 



