74 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



with the ordinary type, and it is surprising to find that a 

 variety is so regular in the markings of different specimens. 

 They appear to be somewhat common in the vicinity. — S. D. 

 Bairstow; Woodland Mount, Huddersfield. 



Note on Iodis vernaria. — The powerful attraction 

 possessed by a newly-emerged female Bomhyx is known to 

 every observant entomologist; but that Geoinetrce occa- 

 sionally exhibit a similar power is, so far as my experience 

 goes, much less generally known. About daybreak on the 

 morning of the 13th July last, as my friend, Mr. W. J. Argent, 

 and I were returning from a night's sugaring in Darenth 

 Wood, our attention was arrested by a ghostly fluttering on 

 the hedge-bank, which proved to be an assemblage of males 

 of Iodis vernaria. So common were the}', that one stroke of 

 the net enclosed six, and many were left. The night had 

 been a most unproductive one at sugar, and very little had 

 been seen on the wing: certainly not one I. vernaria, the 

 season for which was getting late. Since this occurrence one 

 or two other instances of similar gatherings have been men- 

 tioned to me. — Bernard Cooper; Fern Lodge, Higham 

 Hill, Walthamstow. 



Pseudopterpna cytisaria. — I was rather surprised to find 

 the larvffi of this species feeding last June upon common 

 furze {Ulex europceiis), as well as upon needle-whin {Genista 

 anglica) and broom [SarotJiamnus scoparius). — W. Machin. 



AcRONYCTA alni. — A fine full-grown larva fell into my net 

 while beating the wych elm {Ulmus mo)dana) last year, but 

 I sadly fear it has come to grief through an atrocious 

 Ichneumon. — F. 0. Standish; Cheltenham. 



AcRONYCTA ALNI (Entom. X. 31). — One more should be 

 added to the seventeen captures of this scarce and beautiful 

 Noctua, which are recorded in the summary of British Lepi- 

 doptera. It will increase the number taken in Hants to three. 

 In June, 1874, Mr. James Gulliver secured at sugar, in the 

 New Forest, a remarkably fine specimen, which is now in my 

 possession. It was the only insect he saw that night at 

 sugar, during a somewhat long round. — Joseph Anderson, 

 jun. ; Chichester. 



Food of Tortrix viburnana. — I have repeatedly reared 

 T. viburnana from larvae and pupa3 spun up in the leaves of 

 Teucrium scorodonia (wood-sage), collected in the Warren, 



