282, THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
CAPTURES AND FIELD REPORTS. 
EXTRAORDINARY ABUNDANCE OF, AND DESTRUCTION BY, THE 
Larv# oF PIERIS BRASSIC#.—One noticeable entomological feature 
of the past autumn has been the extraordinary abundance of the 
larve otf Pieris brassice, which have done an immense amount of 
injury to cabbage and other cultivated plants of the Brassica genus 
in fields and gardens. A farmer told me of an instance where six 
acres of kale were completely destroyed by these caterpillars; every 
leaf had been devoured, the stalks alone remaining, which presented 
a curious and melancholy spectacle. The larve have committed 
great havoc with the cabbages in our own gardens.—JOSEPH ANDER- 
son; Chichester. 
Larva or Manpuca atropos AT CHICHESTER.—A larva of Man- 
duca atropos just on the point of pupating was brought to me on 
September 16th. It was dug up with potatoes. The interference 
was probably inopportune, and resulted in death before the last 
ecdysis. This is the only instance of the occurrence of Manduca 
atropos in any stage known to me this year in this locality.—_Josmpa 
ANDERSON; Chichester. 
APATURA IRIS AND VANESSA ANTIOPA IN Essex.—A female speci- 
men of Apatura iris was seen in this neighbourhood this summer by 
a young collector, Mr. Webster. It had settled on the ground but a 
short distance from him. As there is a good deal of oak and some 
sallow in the vicinity, it is quite possible that this was a wild in- 
dividual. Mr. P. I. Lathy informs me that he saw a specimen of 
Vanessa antiopa at Broxbourne. Another individual of this species 
was observed within the precincts of the Royal Small Arms Factory 
at Enfield.—GrorcE Tausot; 11, Palace Gardens, Enfield. 
A Few Insects From BrarmMAar.—Dr. D. Sharp was kind enough 
to give me a few insects which he took at Braemar in June of this 
year. They were :—Neuroptera: Raphidia maculicollis, two males 
and two females, together with a female pupa. Plecoptera: Dzcty- 
opteryx mortont, five males and a female; Dictyopterygella recta, a 
nymph almost certainly, and three imagines ; Chloroperla grammatica, 
one; Teniopteryx risi, two; Nemoura variegata, a male and a female. 
Trichoptera: Brachycentrus subnubilus, two.—W. J. Lucas. 
Notes ON THE SEAson.—I was able to spend the morning of 
Saturday, August 7th last, one of the few really favourable collecting 
days in the past season, in Folkestone Warren. Peronea aspersana 
was flying among the Poteriwm; Pyrausta anguinalis, Coleophora 
lixella, Lozopera dilucidana, fi. francillana, and other species were 
about. I think I saw more insects on this particular morning than I 
had seen during a whole fortnight spent in Lincolnshire in the middle 
of July, when the only interesting Lepidoptera noticed were Tapino- 
stola elynv, at Mablethorpe, and a few Scoparia ulmella, near Wil- 
loughby.—F’. G. Wurrrte ; 7, Marine Avenue, Southend, October 9th. 
ABUNDANCE OF VANESSA 10.—In July, along the roads around 
Sidmouth, the larve of this insect were abundant on the nettles. I 
could have taken hundreds.—A. H. G. NETHERCOT. 
