178 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
the second brood.—Grorcr J. Grapes; 2, Buckleigh Road, 
Streatham Common, June 23, 1886. 
DIMINUTIVE DIuRNI.—Whilst walking through Uckfield, on 
the 6th May, I captured a remarkably small specimen of Huchloé 
cardamines. It measured just over an inch from tip to tip of the 
wings, but was quite perfect, and apparently only just out. Is 
not this a very small specimen, as the average span of wings of 
this butterfly is about 1$inches? Morris mentions one caught at 
Bishop-Auckland, which measures an inch and a quarter, but the 
one in question is even smaller than that by over the eighth of 
an inch.—S. Morris; Stoneleigh, St. John’s Park, Blackheath. 
SEX OF WINTER-FLYING BuTTEeRFLIES.—It is well known to 
entomologists that of the species hybernating as imagines several 
are apt to show themselves on the wing on bright days from 
November to March, retiring again to their winter-quarters, 
unless snapped up by some hungry bird; an event not 
uncommon, I imagine. Gonopteryx rhamni is one of these, and 
frequently I see it through the winter season along the lanes of 
Kent, and now and then in the midst of a wood, but never 
remember observing a female insect. I shall be interested in 
knowing if the observations of others agree with mine. In the 
case of such species as Vanessa urtice it is not easy to ascertain 
the sex; but possibly it is only males that thus sally forth at an 
ungenial season.—J. R. 8. Cuirrorp; Gravesend, Kent. 
Hererocera IN Hunrinaponsuire.—There are only a few 
resident entomologists in Huntingdonshire; therefore a list of 
specimens taken by me in 1885 may be useful. I should say it 
consists chiefly of captures in my own garden, which is about an 
acre in extent and planted with fruit trees. The number 
enumerated is not large, and includes only a few Noctuze. Most 
of the insects were taken after business hours, and when enjoying 
the pleasantness of a garden in summer :— 
In April, Anticlea badiata and A. nigrofasciata (derivata) occurred at 
dusk. In May there were Bombya quercus (males), Selenia lunaria, 
Amphidasys betularia, Hemerophila abruptaria, Melanippe sociata (sub- 
tristata), Cilia ylaucata (spinula) common, Dicranura vinula (bred), 
Phiogophora meticulosa. June produced Sphina ligustri at privet flowers 
and honeysuckle (also bred), Chwrocampa porcellus and C. elpenor at 
honeysuckle pretty abundantly.  Hepialus lupulinus and H. hwmuli in 
