NOTES, CAPTURES, ETC. 137 



of this insect in the above localitj^ within the last decade ? — 

 W. Harcourt Bath ; Ladywood, Birmingham. 



Zeuzera pyrina. — In reply to the latter part of the question 

 concerning Zeuzera pyrina (Entom. 108), I beg to say that the 

 insect is fairly common in this neighbom'hood. The larva is 

 particularly partial to pear trees, and I found one in March, 1878, 

 in a small branch of whitethorn. The moths may occasionally 

 be seen at rest on affected trees, and I think are easily attracted 

 to light, as two or three specimens that I have had were found 

 near gas-lights. — Alfred Sich ; Burlington Lane, Chiswick, W., 

 April 9, 1887. 



Zeuzera pyrina (.esculi). — In answer to the questions 

 (Entom. 108) relative to Z. pyrina {cesculi) as regards locality, 

 J. F. Stephens, writing in 1829, says, " Often taken in and near 

 London " ; and the Rev. F. O. Morris, in his book of ' British 

 Moths,' mentions " Hyde Park and St. James's Park, and other 

 parts near London," for this species. I remember picking up, 

 some seventeen years ago, a female at the base of an old elm in 

 Kensington Gardens. Perhaps Mr. H. Sharp will tell us whether 

 the species is still common in London, when he publishes his list 

 of Lepidoptera taken witliin five miles of the Marble Arch, 

 promised Entom. xviii. 78. As to food, Mr. 0. S. Wilson, in his 

 work on Larvse (1880), enumerates twenty distinct kinds of trees 

 inhabited by Z. pyrina, but does not include birch among them. 

 The Rev. F. 0. Morris, however, who only enumerates ten, 

 mentions birch as a food. Combining their lists we get a total 

 of twenty-three kinds. As guelder-rose, holly, lilac, box, and 

 hazel are mentioned by these writers, the larva aj^parently 

 infests small trees as well as big. In Entom. vii. 138, there is 

 an account of some in a small Siberian crab-tree, four inches in 

 circumfer-ence. — H. Chitty ; 33, Queen's Gate Gardens, S.W., 

 April 6, 1878. 



Zeuzera pyrina in March. — A cousin of mine captured a 

 female of this species on March 3rd, 1887, about half a mile from 

 the centre of this town. The moth was found in some straw 

 which had been placed around a rose tree in his garden. My 

 cousin, unfortunately, not being a naturalist, roughly killed the 

 moth and put it in a box for me. When I opened the box in 

 which it had been placed I found a few eggs had been deposited, 



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