29, THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
as a rule on the fore-wings, and extending from the costa, near the 
apex, to the inner margin, is faintly discernible, but terminates 
abruptly half way across. The subapical blotch in my specimen is 
black instead of the usual red.—EH. C. Harpine; 45, Courtland 
Avenue, Ilford, Essex. 
[Possibly referable to ab. enfumata, Newnham.—Ep.] 
Acronycta AcERIS ON Brrow In ABERDEENSHIRE.—On September 
4th, 1915, whilst in search of larvee of N. dictwotdes and N. drome- 
darius, I was rather surprised to fall in with an almost full-grown 
larvee of A. aceris (an addition to the Aberdeenshire List of Lepi- 
doptera). I made diligent search for other members, but the 
weather breaking down, and being some distance from home, had to 
clear out. A further visit proved more successful, and brought the 
number up to three, which duly changed to pupe. It may not be 
out of place to mention that, on the same ground, the birch and 
sallows were almost denuded of all foliage by the ravages of Orgyva 
antiqua, the larvee of which I have never before seen in such con- 
siderable numbers, although I have collected around Aberdeen for 
many years.—G. EH. Hartruey ; 12, Union Grove, Aberdeen, N.B. 
Lycaina ARTAXERXES AND ZYGHNA FILIPENDULS, ETC., IN KIn- 
CARDINESHIRE.—Possibly the outstanding feature of season 1916 
has been the abundance of L. artaxerxes and Z. filipendule on the 
Kincardineshire coast-line—both species literally swarmed on the sea 
braes in their favourite habitat (Muchalls), accompanied by Argynnis 
aglaia and Lycena icarus, etc., to lend variety. From a long and fine 
series of L. artaxerxes I think the following worthy of note: an ab. 
quadripuncta (female) with the discal spot on the right fore-wing 
duplicated, an ordinary form (male) with discal spots duplicated, 
but small, a fine specimen (female) with a dull red spot almost mid- 
way between the discal spot and marginal red markings, apart from 
many interesting underside aberrations —G. EH. Hartnry ; 12, Union 
Grove, Aberdeen, N.B. 
A Frew FuRTHER Notes From Soutnu-Hast Essrx.—Nephopr 
teryx hostilis. Larvee of this species, together with those of Grac- 
laria stigmatella, were not uncommon on aspen at Hadleigh in late 
August and September. Gelechia atriplicellia was met with at Great 
Wakering on August 31st. In beating mugwort at Thorpe Bay on 
September 2nd, in the hope.of getting larve of Tephroclystis in- 
notata the only result was the taking of several 2 ? of Hemamene 
simpliciana. At Benfleet, a small thatch, close to which is a fine 
poplar, harboured Phyllocnistis suffusella. A tap with a stick was 
sufficient to bring them out in dozens. I had not seen Hpsblema 
ophthalmicana for quite a number of years, but on September 25th, 
when at Thundersley, I netted a moth which had flown across the 
path and settled on an aspen. When I took it out of the net I 
found that the net contained another, and three others were after- 
wards shaken out of the tree to which the first moth had flown. I 
visited the spot on the following day and took four more examples of 
this fine Tortrix. Although there are scores of aspens in the district 
apparently quite as suitable as the two trees growing within a couple 
