92 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



and shining; the claspeis are semitransparent, and each has 

 a distinct black dot and a ciescentic black mark above it : 

 in the interspaces between the stripes which I have described 

 there is a further indication of stripes, but these are very 

 inconsj)icuous. I am indebted to my kind friend Mr. 

 Doubleday for the opportunity of describing this larva, — 

 Edicard Newman. 



Entomological Notes, Captures, Sfc. 



Vanessa An t/'opa. — 1 have just come into possession of 

 live specimens of Vanessa Antiopa, taken in a garden in this 

 neighbourhood last autumn. — IJuncBus Cummin g ; Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, March 25, 1868. 



The Early Spring. — On May 1st I noticed amongst the 

 garlands of the children abundant evidence of May-flower, a 

 thing which has been well nigh impossible to occur so early 

 in past years. Again, on May 1st, on visiting some woods, 

 more for the purpose of exploration than of collecting, I 

 captured A. Euphrosyne, T. Tages and T. Rubi ; and on the 

 8lh N. Lucina, T. Alveolus, and many Geometers of divers 

 kinds : on both days the pretty little A. viridella was flying 

 by hundreds in the sun round oak saplings and other trees. 

 None of these last year were seen, so far as I know, till quite 

 the last week or ten days of May. — {Rev.) H, J. White ; 

 Steyning, Siisse.v, May 12, 1868. 



The Early Spring. — I have had several specimens of A. 

 Menthastri emerge from the pupa^, the first of which came out 

 on the 29th of April ; also three specimees of S. I'ilia; during 

 the past week. This morning a female of A. mendica was 

 ca])tured in our cellar. The larva of A. potatoria is very 

 plentiful this spring in om- neighbourhood. — C. J. Watkins ; 

 Painsivick, Gloucestershire, May 11, 1868. 



TJie Early Spring. — With reference to this it must be 

 borne in mind that many of the larva) crawl into greenhouses, 

 &c., and are pei'haps somewhat " forced." I saw one in my 

 own greenhouse this year in March, just emerged from the 

 pupa, and have a note of one seen in 1864 in a greenhouse 

 quite a fortnight earlier than 1 saw one out-of-doors. — N. 6'. 

 Tuely ; Wimbledon Park, May 8, 18()9. 



