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mantelpiece over the fire, and so saved the lives of the majority, 
and found it was necessary to keep them there even through May, 
when nearly all had pupated. The second point to remember is 
that the pup require a certain amount of dampness. Those put 
in a box came out more or less crippled, whereas those put on damp 
moss under a glass shade were all perfect—Freprrick GILLETT 
(Major); Shootfield House, Sundridge, Sevenoaks, Kent. 
Harty EMERGENCE oF BoMOoLocHA FONTIS (CRASSALIS).—Pupe of 
B. crassalas, from larvee which I fed up last autumn, and which had 
been fully exposed all through the winter and spring, emerged from 
May 28th to June 12th. TI have generally taken this insect in a wild 
state early in July—Perrcy C. Reip; Feering Bury, Kelvedon. 
CHROSIS LITTORALIS, Curt., AT WANSTEAD.—Insects sometimes 
turn up in the most unexpected places; here is a good instance. 
Whilst standing in the garden, in the dusk, on Midsummer Day, I 
noticed a small tortrix settle on the underside of a leaf, and upon 
boxing it I thought it was merely one of the lighter forms of the 
common holly feeder, Hudemis nevana, and was about to turn it 
out when it struck me that June 24th was an extremely early date 
to find it in the perfect state, so I took it into the house to a 
brighter light, and was astonished to find it was a typical specimen 
of littoralis!| The saltmarshes are a good many miles from here, so 
how did it get to Wanstead? The next day I noticed some thrift 
growing in a neighbour’s garden, and upon inquiry I found that the 
plants were bought of a local nurseryman nine or ten years ago. 
Where he got them from I am unable to say, but presumably from 
the presence of littoralis they came from the Essex salt marshes.— 
A. THurNALL; Wanstead, Essex, June 29th, 1916. 
ANCYLIS UPUPANA AND PAMMENE GERMARANA, ETC., IN THE NEw 
Forrst.—I secured a beautifully fresh specimen of A. wpupana on 
June 18th last, at Holmsley, in the New Forest. It fell from a birch 
tree into the beating-tray. Some time was afterwards spent in the 
examination of that birch tree, and others around, but no more 
upupana were obtained. A single specimen of Pammene germarana 
(puncticostana) was captured on the edge of a small plantation 
between Sandy Down and the Lymington river, but nearer the latter. 
It was flying rather high when netted. Of Steganoptycha rubiginosana 
I also took but one example. This was flying over the top of some 
young pines growing on Pound Heath. Tortricina generally were 
not plentiful in June last, or in the same month of 1915; even the 
usually common species were but poorly represented.—RicHARD 
Souta ; 4, Mapesbury Court, Brondesbury. 
Larva or Ponyrptoca (CYMATOPHORA) RIDENS IN THE NEw 
Forest.—In June, 1915, larve of P. ridens were fairly plentiful on 
oak in many parts of the forest, but last June these larvie fell from 
nearly every oak tree to which one applied the beating-stick. In 
some of the enclosures, notably at Wilverley, the oaks were almost 
completely denuded of foliage by the commoner spring larvee, but 
larve of P. ridens were obtained from the lower branches of even 
these devastated trees.—Ricuarp SourH. 
