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between the 24th and 26th. On the 8th I again took both flymg in 

 the sunshine in a meadow near Hailsham. And it has been my 

 experience in past years that July is the month in which they mostly 

 occur. — J. E. Campbell-Taylor ; Belmont, Polegate, Susses. 



Notes on the Capture of Boletobia fuliginaria. — During the 

 years 1904-1905, 1 was a student at the Eoyal Stafif College, Camberley. 

 Whilst doing schemes in the evening after dinner in my study I used 

 to keep the door into the garden and the windows open, in order to 

 give the local Lepidoptera every opportunity to come in and be caught. 

 On the evening of July 12th, 1904, several moths came into the study 

 and flew around the incandescent light. I caught one that I thought 

 I wanted, and whilst getting it into the killing-bottle I noticed that 

 there was another moth resting at the bottom of my net. It proved to 

 be a specimen of Bolctohia fulifjinaria in good condition. About half an 

 hour later I chanced to look at the open door leading into my garden, 

 and there on the woodwork sat another specimen. On July 16th I 

 found a third on a window of the Staff College itself, and on July 20th 

 a fourth specimen came into my study. I saw it come in, having been 

 very much on the qui vive every evening after my first captures. It 

 flew with a slow, flapping flight, and, as they are so dull-coloured, was 

 exceedingly hard to see. The same year a brother officer took a 

 specimen at light at his house, and in 1905 I could not come across any 

 more specimens, but this same brother officer took two, one at light, 

 and the other at sugar. The larvae of B. fuliginaria are supposed to 

 feed on fungus growing on rotten wood. The house I lived in had 

 some stables and outbuildings near it, which contained plenty of 

 rotten wood, but although I searched carefully, I never succeeded 

 in finding the larvae. I now possess four specimens of the above- 

 mentioned insect, three of them being very good specimens, the fourth, 

 which I captured in the Stall;" College, being slightly rubbed. — 

 B. TuLLOCH (Captain) ; Strensall, York, Aug. 4th, 1906. 



Sesia andreniformis bred. — The Hon. N. Charles Kothschild 

 records in the Ent. Mo. Mag. for July that a fine Sesia andreniformis 

 emerged on June 10th last from a larva he found mining in a stem 

 of Viburnum lantana. 



Meteorological Conditions affecting Lepidoptera. — I have read 

 with considerable interest the article of Messrs. J. Lissant Cox and 

 Justin Brooke on the " Nocture in Huntingdonshire," &c. [ante, 

 p. 127), as it contains some remarks on a subject which one does not 

 usually meet in entomological literature — namely, about the influence 

 of meteorological conditions on the appearance of moths. I find that 

 the conclusions arrived at by the authors coincide entirely with my 

 observations made some years ago (a short abstract of them was 

 pubhshcd in the ' Entomologist,' vol. xxix. pp. 101-103). Appar- 

 ently the influence of meteorological conditions of the night on the 

 frequency in occurence of moths is the same in such different places as 

 Huntingdonshire and St. Petersburg ; the insignificant number of 

 observations at present available does not permit of further conclusions. 

 I should like to draw the attention of entomologists to this subject, as 

 systematic observations on the influence on meteorological and other 



