258 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Caddis-flies at Sugar. — Amongst mauy other unsolicited guests at 

 sugar, at Hurst Hill, in the New Forest, last August, were two specimens 

 of Glyphotalius pellucidus — a female on Aug. 4th, and a male on Aug. 

 15th. — W. J. Lucas; 12, Caversham Road, Kingston-on-Thames, Sept. 14th. 



Eromene ocellea in Hampshire. — On Feb. 21st last I took a 

 specimen of this insect in the New Forest. — Herbert Ashby ; Pinehurst, 

 Basset, Southampton, Aug. 30th, 1899. 



[See Entom. xxiii. p. 300, pi. iv. fig. 11.— Ed.] 



Acronycta aceris. — I can fully endorse Mr. South's note on the 

 unusual abuudauce of this species in the London district this autumn 

 {ante, p. 237). On some trees in a road near my house I have occasionally 

 found some few larvse in former years as they descended from the upper 

 branches to undergo pupation, but I have never before seen them in 

 anythiug approaching the numbers that they were in during the middle of 

 August last. Not only were they crawling on the trunks of the trees, but 

 on the ground and on adjacent fences. 1 noticed that mauy of these larvse, 

 after crawling some distance, would settle down on a stave of the fence or 

 some similar position and rest there, sometimes for three or four days, 

 duriug which time they turned much darker in colour, and eventually died 

 without having made any attempt at forming a cocoon. Of several that I 

 brought home a large proportion behaved in a similar manner, forsaking 

 the lood given them, and, after wandering about the cage for some time, 

 settling down on the pieces of cork-bark offered them for the purposes of 

 pupation, and remaining there until they died. I have so far been unable 

 to discover any parasite, nor can I assigu any cause of death. The healthy 

 larvse, on becoming full fed, at once get in among the pieces of cork and 

 there form their cocoons. — Robt. Adkin ; Lewisham, September, 1899. 



Unusual Visitors to Sugar. — I was much surprised, on Aug. 9th, to 

 take several Drepana cultraria (unguicula) at sugar. I may mention that 

 Geometers also came freely to sugar on that night, among which were 

 Zonosoma omicronaria, Phibalapteryx vitalbata, Camptogramma bilineata, 

 Melanippe Jinctuata, &c. I have never seen them like it, before or since. — 

 VV. E. Butler; Hayling House, Reading, Sept. -3rd, 1899. 



London Lepidoptera. — A correspondent, writing from The Avenue, 

 Brondesbury, but who has omitted to give his name, remarks : — " With 

 reference to the Editor's note (p. 235), 1 may mention that V. atalanta is 

 common here. V. cardui was seen in the grounds of St. Paul's School last 

 term. Macroglossa stellatarum frequents Hyde Park, and I saw it here 

 twice on Sept. 1st, and once on Sept. 2nd." 



Larvae at Chiswick. — 1 have much pleasure in recording the following 

 list of larvse taken at Chiswick this season ; and having regard to the fact 

 that they were all taken within the parish, which is very restricted, I 

 consider it a very good one. I have not included some of the commonest 

 species. Smerinthus ocellatus, S. popali, S. tilice, Sphinx ligustri, Cha.ro- 

 campa elpenor, C. porcellus, Macroglossa stellatarum (in abundance), Sesia 

 tipuliformis, Cossus ligniperda, Zeuzera pyrina (asculi), Nola cuculatella, 

 Liparls salicis, Crocallis elinguaria, Uropteryx sambucaria, Amphidasys 

 betularia, Acidalia incanaria, Eupithecia subnotata, Melanippe ocellata, 

 Pelurga comitata, Dicranura v inula, D. bifida, Notodonta dictcea, Ptero- 

 stoma palpiua, Acronycta aceris, A. megacephala, Dianthcecia capsincola,D. 



