18 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



end of August. I was surprised to find large numbers of the larvae of V. 

 urticce about the second week in September, in all stages of growth, on 

 nettles. Most of these turned to pupa about October -^nd, and emerged 

 about the 1 5th of the same month. During this latter month, specimens 

 of D. caraleocephala were frequently taken at light.— W. H. Blabek ; 

 Sunuyside, Groombridge, Sussex, November 9, 1888. 



Notes from Wimborne.— Last season I collected above fifty larvte of 

 Euchloe cardamines, also several of Pier'ni napi and P. rapa: all feedin« 

 upon common watercress in a damp ditch ; nearly all have emerged, females 

 of the first-named being far more numerous than males. I have bred a fine 

 series of Goneptenjx rhamni from ova and larvae ; one specimen is curious, 

 in colour It 18 intermediate between the sexes. The larvae of Macroglossa 

 fuciformis have been plentiful this year during July and August. 1 took 

 above forty, m all stages. They were very easy to detect upon honeysuckle 

 leaves; when young they perforate two or three holes near the midrib, and 

 rest underneath, About thirty have changed. I find all are alive and free 

 from parasites. On June 6th I caught a female CoUas edusa ; it is in 

 excellent condition and does not look as if it had hybernated; the fringes 

 are good. The following is a partial list of my captures here :-0n a patch 

 of heath about two acres in extent, Hesperia vialv,e, Nisoniades tanes, Pam- 

 phda sylvamis and P. thaumas, dark forms. Ccenomjmpha pamphdiis, very 

 fane, a female with two perfect ocelli on the upper surface of both bind 

 wings. 1 olijoiiimatus phlceas, some with scarcely any spots at all. Lucama 

 ceffon very plentiful, from deep purple to light blue; one male with dark 

 iiidescenl blotches upon the centre of the upper anterior wings. L. icarus 

 an isolated colony, about a dozen of which I netted, all the females, five 

 111 number, are more or less confluent, two especially so, whilst the males 

 are of the ordinary type. Thecla rubi, tiaturnla carplni, Euthemonia 

 russida, several and two females, Anarta mrjnilla, Fidonia piaiaria in 

 swarms, the h.s being alive with them ; I find the pupee mostly in rotten 

 wood under the trees. Lithosia mesomella, Agrotis porphjyea a^d others; 

 although I found Thecla ruhi and Hesperia malvce common in the sprin^r 

 1 laded to find any m the autumn ; the same with other double-broode°d 

 species, batyrus semeU covaxnoxi on fir-tree trunks, a position this insect 

 usually rests upon where bare rock or ground is absent. By beating, search- 

 ing trees &c., I collected the following -.-Eurymene dolabraria, olrapterux 

 samhucata, Geometmpapdionana, Oryyiapudibimda, Chelonia vdlica,Arctia 

 JaUguiom, EUopia prosapiaria, Platypteryx hamula, P.falcataria, Macaria 

 altenmta, I seudaterpna pndnata, CaUigenia minlata, Acidalia emarninata, 

 kc. At sugar Demas coryh, Thyatira derasa, T. batis, Acronycta psi, 

 Xantluajuloayo, X Jiavago, and a fine series of Acronycta ligustri, fiW 

 pale grey to almost black, one suffused with green. One J. leporlnd, dark 

 grey, Irom a larva found upon willow. On September 27th I found a brood 

 1, TT "'■;''■*' ,f^« ^'^f «f ^^hich emerged to the imago on October 

 dOth; although well fed they are small and dark, some red between the 

 black spots ins lead o the usual yellow; one has only one spot and a faint 

 dot m the m.dd.e o the forewings. Psyche vdloselia very plentiful upon 

 heath ; I took numbers of the larvtB in their cases during the spring but 

 quae si.v lemales en.erged to one male. I put about a dozen cases (which 

 1 had cut open) containing lemale pupa3 in a separate box, and upon open- 

 ing It some time afterwards, there were hundreds of minute larvae some 



