40 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
PyRAMEIS IN JaNuARY.—I saw a fresh-looking specimen of 
Pyrameis atalanta flying in the sunshine in a sheltered hollow at 
Brook, Isle of Wight, on January 7th last—Orrorp Youne, M.D. ; 
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, January 10th, 1909. 
Earty APPEARANCE OF HYBERNIA RUPICAPRARIA.—On 4th inst. 
several male specimens of this species were at rest on an electric 
illuminated window here.—Herrsert W. Baker; 73, Limetree Place, 
Stowmarket, Suffolk, January 6th, 1909. 
Erratwm.—In January number, page 18, line 16 from bottom, for 
“December 12th” read ‘“* December 17th.” 
TMNIOCAMPA GOTHICA IN JUNE AND OctospEeR.—I should like to 
record having taken a somewhat worn specimen of 7’. gothica on the 
flowers of Budleia globosa on June 12th, 1908, and a very perfect 
specimen at ivy bloom on October 15th. I also captured a good 
specimen of Acronycta psi at sugar on the evening of September 6th. 
—(Miss) B. Conny; Pucklechurch, Glos. 
PIERIS NAPI, var.—Last May I had a very large number of 
brassice, rape, and napi, and among the more or less interesting 
forms that appeared were a fine male napz with the basal portion of 
all fore wings conspicuously black. Mr. Raynor—who was here 
yesterday—strongly urged me to send you a note of its occurrence, 
and thought it deserved a varietal name, so we decided to call it basv- 
mgra. A similar but somewhat more pronounced form of brassic@ is 
figured in Morris’s ‘ British Butterflies,’ having been copied from 
‘The Zoologist,’ p. 471. It was taken in a garden in Leicester in 
1843. I have always been on the look-out for this form, but though 
I have bred and captured many thousands of specimens, I never 
met with anything approaching it previously—W. H. Harwoop,; 
94, Station Road, Colchester, September 4th, 1908. 
PTEROPHORUS MONODACTYLUS IN JANUARY.—On Esher Common, 
January 2nd, I observed Pterophorus monodactylus; first, at rest 
about two feet from the ground on oak palings above dead leaves and 
behind brambles, and later on, high up on the trunk of a Scotch fir. 
This capture may serve to confirm the belief that this moth hyber- 
nates during the winter months, flying only at times in favourable 
weather.—D. C. Houmes; The Briars, Manor Road, Thames Ditton, 
January 4th, 1909. 
[This species most certainly passes the winter in the moth 
state, but, except perhaps during the coldest weather, it does not 
seem to become absolutely dormant. It is often seen among the 
latest insect visitors to ivy bloom and the earliest to the sallow 
catkins.—Eb. | 
HYBERNIA LEUCOPH#%ARIA ON JANUARY 8TH.—On the oak-fence of 
Ksher Common I took to-day a male H. leucophearia, It was a dark 
nicely banded specimen, and seems worthy of record, the date being 
so very early.—D. C. Hommzs. 
CAMPODEA STAPHYLINUS (ApTERA).—In rotting stumps from which 
trees have been cut down, I found to-day (January 8th, 1909) several 
