96 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Cnephasia cinctana not at Bloxworth. — A correspondent has 

 lately called my attention to the inclusion of Cnephasia cinctana in my 

 list of Lepidoptera taken at Bloxworth in 1895 (Entom. xxix. 132), 

 and asks if this is correct. I am sorry to say it is not so. The species 

 intended to be given was C. sinuana, which, by the printer's error (very 

 probably occasioned by my bad writing), was made into C. cinctana. 

 This last species has not, so far as I know, yet occurred in Dorsetshire ; 

 while C. sinuana is a rare though regularly occurring one. Not having 

 had an opportunity to correct the press, and scarcely even running my 

 eye over the paper after its appearance in due course in the ' Entomo- 

 logist,' this error had quite escaped me, until my correspondent called 

 my attention to it. — 0. P. Cambridge ; Bloxworth Rectory, Feb. 28th. 



Heliothis armigera, Hb. — In reference to Mr. South's interesting 

 notes upon this species {ante, p. 17) and the other recent notices of its 

 capture (ante, pp. 44, 45), it may not be without interest to state that 

 there is a rather worn example in my cabinet, which was caught by my 

 brother flying in the sunshine over the sandhills upon the coast, about 

 four miles south of Berwick, in September, 1882. H. armigera has also 

 been taken on two or three occasions in the neighbourhood of Burn- 

 mouth and Eyemouth, to the north of Berwick, by Mr. William Shaw. 

 — George Bolam ; Berwick-on-Tweed, March 5th, 1898. 



Melanippe tristata, L.— Referring to the aberration of this 

 species mentioned by Mr. W. F. de Vismes Kane (ante, p. 11), I may 

 say that I have a somewhat similar example, taken on the Northum- 

 brian moors last season, in which the black markings are decidedly 

 paler than usual, and the light ground colour of all the wings has a 

 pronounced rusty tinge. — George Bolam. 



The Rhopalocera of Birmingham and District. — I have been asked 

 to make some corrections with regard to my notes on the above (ante, 

 pp. 42-44). The majority of the species came under my own observa- 

 tion ; but I have been obliged to refer to past literature for several to 

 make the list as complete as possible. The records to which I referred 

 were chiefly found in the ' Entomologist ' and a local list of Lepido- 

 ptera ; but as they are both between twenty and thirty years old they 

 are now out of date, and several insects probably no longer occur in 

 the district. For example : Argynnis adippe is recorded in the local 

 list referred to, but locality not stated, and is certainly not known to 

 have occurred in Sutton Park for many years ; Thecla quercus, there is 

 no authenticated record of its capture of late years in Sutton ; Lyccena 

 azgon (vide Newman's Brit. Butt.) has not been seen in Sutton Park 

 for many years past. I may add that my record of Argynnis }>aphia is 

 the first really known capture of the species in the locality mentioned 

 of late years, as I have since heard. — Augustus D. Imms; "Linthurst," 

 Oxford Road, Moseley, near Birmingham. 



[We supposed that, except where otherwise noted, the species men- 

 tioned by our correspondent (ante, pp. 42-44) had been observed by 

 himself. This appears not to have been the case, but, on the contrary, 

 it would seem that he has incorporated ancient records, and this, too, 

 without indicating where and when such records were published. It 

 should not be necessary to point out that the usefulness of a local list 



