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Epping Forest locality, though it is not found at Wicken.—W. G. 
SuELpon, F.E.S.; Youlgreave, South Croydon, October 22nd, 19165. 
BuraciniaA FLAVICILIANA IN SURREY.—The original locality for this 
species, which is not known to occur outside Britain, and which is 
found in only a very few localities in it, was Sanderstead, a mile or 
two from this house. The larva was discovered some twenty years 
ago by the late William Warren, who states that he found it 
feeding in the flowers of the field scabious Knautia arvensis, in a 
hollow in the Sanderstead Downs. I have hunted these downs, every 
yard of them, over and over again, but could never find the food 
plant, except for odd examples; but last August I did discover it 
abundantly in a small hollow several miles away from Sanderstead. 
The larva of an Hupecila, which from the plant it affected, could 
hardly be anything other than this species, the description of the 
larva of which by Warren it exactly agreed with, was not uncommon 
here. The locality was a very small one, extending over perhaps half 
an acre, and from certain circumstances I am inclined to think it 
might have been the spot where Warren discovered the larva; but it 
could hardly be called a part of the Sanderstead Downs. I subse- 
quently searched the hills around, but although I found other places 
where K. arvensis was not infrequent the plants did not show any 
signs of having been affected by larve of H. flaviciliana.—wW. G. 
Suexpon, F.E.S.; Youlgreave, South Croydon, October 22nd, 1915. 
ORGYIA ANTIQUA FEEDING ON Heratuer.—Mr. Frohawk’s note 
(‘ Entomologist,’ vol. xlviii, p. 287) on the food-plants of Orgyia 
antigua in Scotland, reminds me of a record of my own which he 
has evidently overlooked. In the ‘ Entomologists’ Record,’ vol. xii, 
1900, p. 283, I noted the larve as being (in Aberdeenshire) ‘in count- 
less thousands feeding on the ling.” —Lovuis B. Prout; December 8th, 
1915. 
I am interested to read Mr. F. W. Frohawk’s note in the 
‘ Entomologist,’ vol. xlviii, p. 287, about the food-plants of O. antiqua. 
In Cumberland we find this species only on the moors among heather, 
which the larvee feed on; occasionally a few will be found on the 
birch trees; we also find the eggs laid on the heather. The insect 
is most common at Bolton Fell in the north of the county, but is 
uncommon at Orton, Kirkbampton, and Thurstonfield in the Carlisle 
district ; it also occurs at Wan Fell, Great Salkeld, and Barron Wood 
in Mid Cumberland.—Grorce B. RoutnepGce ; Tarn Lodge, Heads- 
nook, Carlisle, December 8th, 1915. 
Mr. F. W. Fronawk will be interested to hear that colonies of 
Orgyia antigua have been observed for years feeding on heather on 
Minera Mountain, North Wales. How these colonies have been 
established is a puzzle to me, and the theories I have seen from 
scientists do not, in my opinion, account for them. Another puzzle 
is the sudden, and total, disappearance of a colony. Light, however, 
seems to show here in Mr. Frohawk’s reference to the ‘ minute 
ichneumon flies.”’—J. ARKLE ; Chester. 
