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CAPTURES AND FIELD REPORTS. 



Notes on Lepidopteea in June. — I was able to pay a short 

 visit to Wansford on June 1st, but saw nothing of Carterocaplialus 

 palcBmon until I was about to return to the railway station, when one 

 example, just emerged, allowed itself to be taken. I saw no others. 

 I paid an afternoon visit to Chippenham Fen on the 15th inst., and 

 was very pleased to see and take for the first time Emmelia trahealis, 

 one individual only occurring at the roadside just beyond the green 

 road leading to the fen. Banhia argentida occurred freely ; Hydrelia 

 unciila sparingly ; small larvae of Gitcidlia verbasci were on the 

 Scrophularia, but my efforts to find either larvae or pupae of Plusia 

 chryson were quite fruitless. During the greater part of June I was 

 sugaring in Bye and found things rather backward and Lepidoptera 

 far from common. Hypsipetes ruberata occurred sparingly on trunks 

 of willows ; Phibalapteryx UgncUa at rest after dark and at sugar. 

 The fine dark fen form of Sericoris lacunana was occasionally netted. 

 Argyrolepia schreibersiana was very scarce on trunks of black poplar, 

 Eitponcilia notulana was not uncommon. Baccalatrix boyerella was 

 not common on elm-trunks. Elachista cerusella was taken com- 

 monly, flying over ditches, and Nepticula regiella occurred among 

 hawthorn. Larvae of Tceniocampa gracilis appeared to be common 

 in tops of Spircea. — C. H. Whittle ; 7, Marine Avenue, Southend, 

 June 29th, 1910. 



CoEEMiA QUADRiFAsciAEiA IN SuRREY. — On Juiie 24th last, Mr. 

 Norman Riley netted a male specimen of this species. It had been 

 disturbed from a hedgerow by my beating-stick, so the captor very 

 kindly gave it to me. In the Victoria History of Surrey (List of 

 Lepidoptera, p. 126) C. quadrifasciaria is stated to be rare in the 

 county, and the only localities mentioned are Gomshall, Guildford, 

 and Whitley. To these may now be added — Byfleet (R. S., July 23rd, 

 1901), Oxshott (A. Scollick, August 17th, 1907), Aldershot (B. Tul- 

 loch, Entom. 1908, p. 274), and Ockham (as above). — Richard 

 South ; 96, Drakefield Road, Upper Tooting, S.W. 



Note on Eupithecia assimidata. — In a previous note on this 

 species (Entom. xlii. 261) I mentioned that, from larvae collected from 

 hop in the garden, one imago emerged on August 22nd, 1909. No 

 other moth came up that year. One appeared on June 16th, two on 

 June 20th, and one on June 24th this year. About May 3rd a moth that 

 seemed to be E. assimilata was seen on the fence, but as capture was 

 not effected, its identity was not established. A half-grown larva of the 

 species was found on the under side of a hop leaf, quite close to the 

 ground, on July 1st last ; another, in last instar, on July 3rd ; and a 

 third, almost full grown, under a leaf of black currant, on July 17th. 

 — Richard South. 



Argynnis lathonia at Folkestone. — Messrs. Watkins and 

 Doncaster tell me you will like to know that I captured a fine speci- 

 men of Argynnis lathonia (Queen of Spain Fritillary) at Folkestone 

 Warren, on June 27th last. — D. Alroy Salamon; 86, Tower Hill, 

 July 7th, 1910. 



