NOTES, CAPTURES, ETC. 1 G5 



uhetlier such species have through heredity attauied that facult}', while 

 those which are larvae in summer sutfer death from frost, is a fact which 

 has, probably, never been cleared up. — J. T. C] 



Lepidoptera of South Buckinghamshire. — Tn April, 1887 (Entoni. 

 XX. 89), I recorded the actual captures of Macro-lepidoptera made by me 

 during the season of 1880 at Chalfont St. Peter. I am now able to give 

 the result of my efforts in the same locality during the following season of 

 1887, though my hours of hunting were limited. Wishing to complete the 

 list, so far as I am personally concerned, I only state my actual captures, 

 arran^jed in the same way as in my last contribution, omitting all species 

 there recorded. Besides those I give in the following list, I came upon one 

 specimen of Teplirosia ZH/tc/fl<a, which I unfortunately lost ; and on the 

 ledge of a small hut in a wood I found, in a small heap, enough wings of 

 Staurojnts fagi to make two perfect insects, which had evidently been 

 destroyed by our entomological enemies, the bats. January. — Caught: 

 Hyheniia rupicapraria (8). March. — Caught: At sallows, TcBniocaiiqia 

 pulverulenta [b), T. gothica, T. stabiUs (common); at sugar, Scopolosoma 

 mtellitia (2). April. — Caught: Anticlea hadiata (4), Hybernla marginaria, 

 Xylocainp)a areola ['Z); at sallows, Taiiiocainpa pidvenilenta [ij), T. gothica 

 (5), T. stahiUs (common); at sugar, Paclinobia rubricosa. May. — Caught: 

 Euchloe cardanihws {sexeral), F ier is rapcB (common), P- napi(3}, Gonepteryx 

 rhainni, Argynnis eiiphrosyne (4), Odontopera bide)itata, Drepana falcataria 

 V. pallida, Melanippe sociata (2), Panagra petraria (common) ; at rest, 

 Hepialus lupulinus, Spilosoma mendica [Hemale). June. — Caught: Poly- 

 ommatus phlceas (3), Argynnis euphrosyne (common), A. selene, Pieris 

 brassicoB (common), P. rapcb (common), P. napi (common), Euchloe carda- 

 mines (common), Melanippe sociata (8), Thera variata (common), Syrichthus 

 malvcB, Cidaria truncata v. perfascata (4), C.corylata, Emwelesia ajfinitata, 

 Eupithecia exiguata (3), E. castigata, Strenia clathrata, Caiwiiyinplia piam- 

 philus (common), Panagra petraria (common), Lornasjiilis marginata (3), 

 Euryniene dolobraria (2), Bapta bimaculata, Macaria litnrata {2}, Euclidia 

 mi, Hepiialus lupulinus (abundant), Spilosoma mendica ("2 females), Cilix 

 glaucata (2), Drepana falcataria and v. j)allida (7), Hylopliila prasinana (6), 

 Eucheliaj acobcEoi [commou). Agrotis urtica; ; at rest, Dasydiira pudibundu 

 (2), Teplirosia crepuscularia (o). July. — Caught: Uropteryx sainbucaria[\\), 

 Bap)ta bimaculata, Cidaria p)icata, Thyatira batis. August. — Caught : 

 Thecla qnercus (abundant), Polyommatus pliUcas, Gonepteryx rJiainni, 

 Acidalia bisetuta (3), Cidaria corylata, C immanata, Eubolia bipunctaria, 

 Dianthcecia carpophaga, D. capsincola ; at light, Strenia clathrata, Melanthia 

 ocellata, Luperina testacea [common), Cerigo matura, Eupithecia absynthiata 

 (2), Charceas graminis (3), Calymnia ajfinis ; at sugar, Noctua cadanea ; at 

 rest, Sphinx convolvuli, Cirrhatdia xerainpelina [21). September. — At rest: 

 Cirrhiedia xerampclina (8). I was away the greater part of July, and 

 throughout the season "sugar" was almost a failure, the opposite of the 

 previous year. — (Rev.) J. Seymour St. John ; 42, Castlewood Koad, 

 Stamford Hill, N., March, 1889. 



Sugar versus Blossoms in New Zealand. — Much has beer. <vntieii 

 at various times on the futility of sugaring in the neighbourhood of blos- 

 soms, but 1 think that this axiom should be taken in a far more limited 

 sense than is usually the case. On* the evening of February 8ih I was 

 collecting in the Botanical Gardens here, the white rata [Metrosidcros 



