CAPTURES AND FIELD REPORTS. BP 
OCNERIA DISPAR AT HAsTBoURNE.—On the evening of August 
30th last, on my way home from the train, I captured a female 
Ocneria dispar from the trunk of an elm-tree, where it was resting 
in an apparently torpid condition. It is an unusually large 
specimen, measuring 74 mm. from tip to tip of the wings, and is 
somewhat greyer in colour than usual, possibly owing to the loss of 
wing-scales, although the fringes are in fairly perfect condition. The 
situation where it was taken is an unlikely one for the species to 
have bred wild in the immediate neighbourhood, nor has the speci- 
men the appearance of one that had been reared in captivity ; there 
should, however, be no difficulty in this latter point being set at 
rest.—RoBERT ADKIN. 
CoLIAS EDUSA AT HasTBouRNE.— Although frequently over the 
most likely spots in the neighbourhood of Eastbourne during the 
months of August and September last, the only example of Colias 
edusa that came under my notice was a travel-stained male captured 
by a friend on the morning of September 17th. The species cannot 
have been common in Britain during the past autumn, but probably 
some few specimens may have been noted, and it would be interest- 
ing if all such cases were put on record, with particulars of date 
when met with, and sex and condition of the specimens where 
known.—RoBert ADKIN. 
Sravropus FaGci.—As the “lobster moth” seems to be still of 
unfrequent occurrence, it is perhaps worth while to record a male 
taken by myself early in June last; it was on a pane of my study 
window, and perfectly quiet. In my present crippled condition I had 
some difficulty in securing it, but first and last it never moved, and 
had apparently never flown; no bred specimen could be in finer 
condition. The only perfect insect of this species I have ever before 
taken here was a female, on the trunk of an oak many years ago; 
though from the year 1852 at various considerable intervals of 
time up to now I have met with the larva, but never succeeded in 
getting a perfect insect; the result having always been that the 
larva either died after changing to a chrysalis, or else produced 
an ‘ichneumon.’’—QO. PicKARD-CAMBRIDGE; Bloxworth Rectory, 
November 17th, 1909. 
ABUNDANCE OF THE LARV# OF PIERIs BRASSICH.— With reference 
to Mr. Joseph Anderson’s note (antea, p. 282) on the extraordinary 
abundance of the larve of P. brassice in the neighbourhood of 
Chichester, I should like to record their equal abundance in this 
district, for most of the plants of broccoli, Brussels sprouts, savoys, 
&c., in the gardens about here present the same melancholy spectacle 
of bare stalks, and the palings and walls adjacent are covered with 
their chrysalids, and the yellow nests of cocoons of Apanteles glome- 
ratus; and there are still quantities of larvee to be seen on the plants, 
or crawling about the walls looking for sheltered corners wherein to 
pupate, notwithstanding the severe frosts, snow, and hail we have 
experienced during the last week. I did not notice that the perfect 
insects were in any way more numerous than usual at the end of 
ENTOM.—DECEMBER, 1909. 2D 
