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one, May 16th — total, three ! Our collecting was done with the aid of 

 lamps, and quite a stock of hybernated larvae were secured from the sallows 

 and blackthorns. Among these were Triphcena fimbria. T. orbona, T. 

 ianthina, Xylophasia polyodon, and Noctua augur. This sort of collecting 

 lasted till the 26th of May, when A. badiata fell off, the larvae disappeared, 

 and there was nothing on the wing hut Rumia cratcegata, Hypsipetes 

 elutata (all dark forms), and Coremia unidentaria. The type, in which the 

 broad central bar across the upper wings is black, or neatly so, was the 

 commonest form of 0. vnidentaria, but the variety which has the bar, 

 apical blotch, and other marks reddish — sometimes confused with C.ferru- 

 gata — wm also taken. I have never seen the latter species itt the district, 

 although it occurs at Birkenhead. N Wallasey sandhills, and Puddtngton 

 (Mr. A. O. Walker's list) A. badiata hIso varied much, especially in aepth 

 of tint. Uther moths were Caiocampa vetusta (one, hybernateu, taken off 

 sallow bloom), Xy!'>campa lithorhiza (one onlv — another moth seldom seen 

 here), TcBuincumpa yothica. T utabilia. T. in^tabilis. T. gracilis, Diurnea/a- 

 gella, Hyberaia progemmaria, and Cidnria sil.aceata. Trie weather was 

 goxi, on the whole Tne nights were olten cl^ar and starry, inclined to 

 frost, and with a cold north-ea>t breeze. — J. Auki.e ; Chester. 



Ch<ERoC \MP.i PoRCEI.LUS. — On June 12tn I took a lovely >pecimen of 

 the above, ti\ ing over the flowers of the red campion, in a lane about a mile 

 out of the town ; and on the 19th, two more specimens (male and lemale), 

 within a few yards o' the spot where the first was taken. Is not this rather 

 an unusual capture for Warwickshire? — Chas. Bakek ; Long Street, 

 Atherstone, June 26th, 1899. 



Halias quicrcana at Dui-wich. — On June 4th I found a larva on a 

 fence bordering Dulvwcb College. After keeping it for five days it spun a 

 cocoon, and seventeen days later on a specimen of H. quercana emerged. — 

 Stanley A Blknkarn; Ivyholme, Dulwich Common, S.E. 



Note on Dianthcecia cucubali. — On July 24th last I took a speci- 

 men ot D. cucubali at sugar, at Lewes. Is not this unusually late for 

 this species? And is it not also very unusual for it to come to sugar? 

 The specimen was in very fine condition, and evidently only recently 

 emerged. — Hugh J. Vinall; Lewes, July 25 ih, 1899. 



[This species is " double-brooded " on the Continent, and there is no 

 doubt that it is so, occasionally at least, in Britain. The specimens 

 occurring in August and late July are almost certainly derived from the 

 May-Juue emergence. It has been previously noted as a visitor to su^ar. 

 —Ed.] 



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South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 June 22nd, 1899.— Mr. J. W. Tutt, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the 

 chair. Mr. Montgomery exhibited larvae of (1) Pararge megmra ; 

 (2) Epinephele tithonus, from ova, showing brown and green forms ; 

 and (3) E. hyperanthus, from ova, and gave particulars as to their 

 food-plant and their hybernation. He also showed a new arrangement 

 he had made for sending larvae by post. Mr. Turner, a cluster of large 



