248 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
VANESSA ANTIOPA IN EssEx.—A perfect specimen of V. antiopa 
was taken on Sept. 9th by a gardener in a greenhouse in my garden. 
—W. H. Pemperton-Barnes; Havering-atte-Bower, Essex. 
VarIETY OF LycHNA BELLARGUS.—I have paid two visits this 
month to the locality in which I took the varieties mentioned in 
my note of June last (Entom. 176); and although the autumn 
brood of this species was a very scanty one indeed, I should say 
hardly a tenth part of the number seen in the spring, I yet was 
fortunate enough to meet with a pair on each occasion, similar in 
every respect, save size, to those previously recorded. One of the 
females was much worn, and one of the males somewhat crippled, 
as was the case with two of the former captures; but the other 
pair were in very fine condition, although not so large as the 
spring ones. If all be well I hope to meet with this variety again 
next spring, as I should fancy the form is a permanent one and 
peculiar to this spot, never having met with it before at other 
places that I have visited; still others may, perhaps, have done 
so, and I should be pleased to compare notes. I may add that I 
have never till this season worked this locality for L. bellargus.— 
E. Sapine; 22, The Villas, Erith, September, 1886. 
STRIDULATION OF ACHERONTIA ATROPOS.—In the ‘ Entomo- 
logist,’ p. 148, Mr. South is so good as to call attention to some 
former notes of mine on this, the grandest of our Sphingide ; 
and having just bred a few specimens I am induced to add a few 
supplementary remarks. Here, as in divers other parts of the 
country, the larve of Acherontia atropos were last season more 
than usually abundant, and I became possessed of a goodly 
number. I took much pains in rearing them, feeding them 
on their usual pabulum—potato-leaves; and with one or two 
exceptions all went down into the earth, with which I filled 
some immense flower-pots on their behalf. I should lke to 
make the enquiry why some larve so resolutely refuse to bury 
themselves, roaming restlessly round and round, seeking a place 
of egress, whilst others will as readily penetrate the soil? ‘This 
was also the case with some larve of Asteroscopus nubeculosa, 
which I reared from ova sent me from Rannoch this year. Not 
a moth emerged last autumn; and when June and the greater 
part of July had passed without a single imago, I began to fear 
that all had perished. I may say that in December I turned the 
pup out of the flower-pots, and placed them in tins filled with 
