260 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Notes rrom Stpmourn.—I was pleased when at Weston Beach, 
near Sidmouth, on August 4th last to see a few examples of that 
now very local butterfly Pararge egeria. Colias edusa was there, too, 
but not in any numbers. Adopea acteon occurred, but not at all 
freely, as can be judged from the fact that it took me two hours to 
get a dozen specimens, all of which were males, for the most part 
in only fair condition. Pyrausta punicealis was common amongst 
the thyme near the base of the cliffs —F. G. Wairre; 7, Marine 
Avenue, Southend, September 7th, 1909. 
ABRAXAS GROSSULARIATA ab. LACTICOLOR.—On July 29th I took 
a perfect specimen of A. grossulariata ab. lacticolor Raynor, as figured 
on plate 104 in ‘Moths of the British Isles’ (second series), and I 
thought this occurrence might be sufficiently interesting to report.— 
P. H. Harvey; 9, Church Street, Warwick, August 27th, 1909. 
Harty APPEARANCE OF TRIPHHNA PRONUBA. — Whilst sugaring 
on the 24th of April of this year for a female munda, although already 
rather late for that insect, I boxed a freshly emerged example of 
7’. pronuba. Is not this an exceptionally early date for this species ? 
Probably the mild spell in February may account for their early 
emergence.—R. T. Baumann; ‘“ Glendale,” 70, Station Road, Ching- 
ford, Essex. 
ABUNDANCE OF VANESSA 10.—The sudden appearance of Vanessa 
zo in such numbers as it is at the present time is, I think, worthy of 
record after so many years of comparative scarcity. In South-east 
Hissex it is in greater abundance than I have seen it since the 
“seventies.” I hear it is very common in many places, and it would 
be interesting to learn if it is equally abundant throughout the 
country.—F’. W. FrRoHAwkK. 
VANESSA ANTIOPA IN Kmnt.—Mr. Siegfried Sassoon captured a 
specimen of V. antiopa on September 3rd last behind a blind of a 
skylight in his house at Paddock Wood, Kent. It is in fair condition, 
with cream-coloured margins; the blue submarginal spots are smaller 
than usual—F. W. F. 
Nore on Nonaaria Geminipuncta.— While working for pupe of 
this species at Lewes on the 31st July last, I cut one reed con- 
taining no fewer than nine pupe. It is by no means uncommon to 
find two or three on one reed, but so large a number as nine is 
certainly more or less of a record. Can any of your correspondents 
go one better ?—-Huau J. VINALL; Torbay, Park Road, Lewes. 
SPILOSOMA LUBRICIPEDA var. ZATIMA IN WARWICKSHIRE.—About 
the middle of June last I had the good fortune to take, in the town 
street, a very nice specimen of the zatima form of S. lubricipeda. It 
was kept alive for a day or two in the hope of finding a typical female 
and so obtain a pairing if possible. In this, however, I was not 
successful.—cC. Baker; 25, Long Street, Atherstone. 
DaAPHNIS NERI IN DEVONSHIRE.—It may be of interest to record 
that a specimen of Daphnis nerit was caught at Ilfracombe on 
September 22nd. It was sitting on a fig-leaf in a garden there. 
When brought to me it was a little rubbed on thorax, and had one of 
