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NOTES FROM EINGWOOD AND DISTRICT. 

 By J. Hy. Fowler. 



The earlier months of the season were very unfavourable to 

 collecting. We had several hard frosts in May and early June, 

 which caused insects to be scarce. Spring moths scarcely ap- 

 peared at all ; larva beating was useless, and has been so for 

 two or three years. Matters began to improve about June. I 

 collected some larvae of Callimorpha dominula, and bred a few 

 good varieties of the species. v Two of these are yellow; one 

 orange, quite intermediate between the latter form and the type ; 

 two nice ones, hind wings suffused with black, the scarlet being 

 almost invisible ; several with the pale spots yellow ; and one 

 with the hind wings almost entirely scarlet. 



April 3rd. Xylocampa areola upon fir trees. 6th. Cymato- 

 phora ridens and Earias chlorana bred ; the latter freely, several 

 emerged quite up to June. These might be regarded as a second 

 brood ; the same remark applies to late specimens of Emydia 

 cribrum. Some pupae seem to lie over for a time, and in this 

 connection I may mention that I have a pupa of Vanessa ata- 

 lanta, which I have no doubt is a specimen of the usual June 

 brood. Oct. 7th is late for pupa ; still, I have known them even 

 later than this. I bred a few E. chlorana quite golden green ; 

 they were killed by my fingers, so were not discoloured in any 

 way by the cyanide bottle. 16th. Vanessa io, V. urticce, Gone- 

 pteryx rhamni, Pieris brassica, and P. napi were all to be seen 

 in my garden. 17th. Satyrus egeria, scarce ; Eupithecia pulchel- 

 lata, bred. 27th. Boarmia cinctaria out; I have taken many 

 good forms this season. One male is unicolorous grey ; another 

 example of the same sex has all the markings a rich brown, the 

 only one of this form I have ever seen ; several specimens are 

 white -banded, others nearly white. This species was abundant 

 and continued out up to June. I have seen as many as eleven 

 on one tree. May 5th. Lycana argiolus, very scarce and late. 

 6th. Netted several moths over honesty flowers, very similar to 

 Cucidlia umbratica,, but not so large. One is almost entirely 

 black. 9th. Pachycnemia hippocastanaria, which is usually com- 

 mon, was very scarce. 22nd. Anthocharis cardamines, a few ; I 

 have not seen a dozen specimens of this species for the last two 

 seasons. 30th. Took cases of Psyche villosella, Fumea roborico- 

 lella, and Talceporia pseudo-bombycella ; also the first example of 

 Emydia cribrum. June 1st. E. cribrum well out ; also Scodiona 

 belgiaria. 3rd. Gorycia temerata; Lithosia aureola very common, 

 but difficult to net ; a fine female Eurymene dolabraria ; several 

 larvae of Nola strigida ,■ Thecla quercus and Phorodesma bajularia. 

 5th. One Boarmia cinctaria seen; several Epione advenaria; 

 Macroglossa stellatarum seen. 6th. From this date I netted a 



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