312 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



dipped in syrup, and exposed them on a window-ledge ; but much to my 

 disappointment I did not get any ova. I have never taken this insect 

 before in Gloucestershire. — M. Stanger Higqs ; The Mill House, Upton 

 St. Leonard's, Gloucester. [The better way would have been to have 

 placed the female in a covered flower-pot containing growing plants of 

 Lotus corniculatus, in the root-stem of which the larvae feed. — J. T. C] 



Arctia urtic^ jn Brighton. — On the evening of May 26th I touk a 

 fresh specimen oi A. urticcB on a lamp-post in the Preston Road. The only 

 locality mentioned for it in ' The List of Macro-Lepidoptera of East 

 Sussex ' is Lewes Marshes. — Henry G. Place ; 53, Buckingham Road, 

 Brighton. 



Stauropus fagi in Forest of Dean. — On June 12th I found a 

 newly-emerged male Stauropus fagi on an oak in the Forest of Dean. I 

 mention the fact as I have not seen its capture recorded in this locEility 

 before. — N. F. Searancke ; Mitcheldean. 



Caradrina quadripuncta. — I should think Mr. J. W. Tutt is quite 

 correct (Entom. 187) in his conjecture as to this insect appearing all the 

 year round. On referring to my diaries I find I have taken the insect every 

 month of various years, but find it the rarest in April. In the winter 

 months, say from November to March, it is commonly taken in perfectly 

 fresh condition, in the stables here, by the groom, and brought to me as 

 " something new this time." — A. E. Hall ; Norbury, Sheffield, July, 1889. 



Geometra vernaria, var. — I have taken a variety of G. vernaria, 

 pale salmon-colour, with the green tint showing in a dash on the two 

 under wings only. — G. M. A. Hewett; 3, St. Swithin Street, London. 

 [Probably the result of moisture acting on the fugitive green colour. — Ed.] 



Trifuroula pallidella. — It is ten years since I took a male specimen 

 of this rarity. Yesterday I was fortunate to take a fine female at Dutton. 

 What a queer looking insect ! The cilia are more like bristles than feathers; 

 they look like a lot of short hairs. This sex is of a more bronze colour 

 than the male. — J. B. Hodgkinson ; Ashton-on-Ribble. 



Sugar Unproductive. — I regret to say sugaring has been very un- 

 productive here all this month, and from the beginning of June, doubtless 

 owing to the cold which always seems to follow sunset. — Albert J. 

 Hodges; Elgin Cottage, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, July 13, 1889. 



Further Notes on the Lepidoptera of Wimbledon. — Having at 

 one period of my life spent many hours in the pursuit of insects on and 

 near Wimbledon Common, I venture to add a few names to the interesting 

 list of species captured by Mr. Whittle (Entom. 150). I am looking back 

 to a much earher date, probably, than that to which Mr. Whittle is 

 referring, and some species I used to take have very likely disappeared, or 

 become much scarcer. Longer ago still, in the days of the earlier entomo- 

 logists, it is enough to make one's mouth water to read of the things they 

 used to take in Wimbledon Park and Coombe Wood, both adjacent localities 

 to the Common : the former of these has long been cut up for building, 

 and the latter seems now about to follow suit. However, while Wimbledon 

 Common is preserved as an open space, nnd allowed to retain — in part at 



