108 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



on the beach only a few ,yarcls in extent. Last week, while 

 collecting at Wainuiomata, about ten miles inland, on the east 

 coast, I again met with the stranger, taking this time two fresh 

 specimens, which points strongly to the fact that the insect is 

 a veritable native. I was also much astonished to capture a 

 specimen of the well-known Deiopeia imlchella, flying wildly in 

 the hot sunshine round some bushes in tlie same locality. 

 The Australasian form of Vanessa cardiii was also more abun- 

 dant than I have seen it since my arrival in New Zealand in 

 1881. — G. V. Hudson; Ghwynee Street, Wellington, New 

 Zealand, Feb. 8th, 1887. 



Deilephila euphorble in Cheshire. — From information 

 which I have lately obtained I have a doubt about the specimen 

 of D. euplwrhice recorded from Cheshire (Entom. xix. 250), 

 being British ; consequently I have taken it out of my collection, 

 and intend to destroy it. I am sorry it was recorded in the 

 ' Entomologist.' — Joseph Chappell ; 29, Welbeck Street, Chorlton- 

 on-Medlock, Manchester, Feb. 11, 1887. 



Sesia andreniformis in Gloucestershire. — I took a single 

 male of a " clearwing," which seems referable to Sesia andreni- 

 formis, at Wotton-under-Edge, at the end of last June. Being 

 in quest of Aculeate Hymenoptera, and mistaking it at first for a 

 species of Odynerus, it was speedily captured. It was flying up 

 and down some bushes of dog-wood. Unfortunately it is not in 

 very good condition, the anal tuft being considerably rubbed off, 

 due, no doubt, to m}^ not having a suitable receptacle for 

 Lepidoptera with me. — R. C. L. Perkins; Sopworth Rectory, 

 Chippenham, Feb. 28, 1887. 



Zeuzera pyrina feeding in Birch-wood.-— I took the larva 

 of Zeuzera pyrina {(zsculi) in a very small birch tree on March 

 8th, in our garden in London. It was killed in getting it out. 

 The tree was nearly destroyed by this one grub. It had eaten 

 the pith out from top to nearly the bottom. Could any one tell 

 me if they have been found in birch before, and if they are rare 

 in and near London? — R. Dingwall; Knolly's Croft, Leigham 

 Court Road, Streatham, March 9, 1887. 



Acronycta alni in Hampshire. — I was lucky enough to find 

 on June 11th of last year, at Brockenhurst, a specimen of this 



