258 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



EUPITHECIA ABSYNTHIATA FEEDING ON TaNSY. — Oil October 



15th I found about twenty larvae feeding on the blossoms of the 

 tansy, which Mr. G. Baker, of this town, pronounces to be those 

 of Eiqnthecia absynthiata. They are of three different colours, — 

 pink, green, and yellow ; the first variety being by far the most 

 numerous, but all are identical in markings. I believe this is a 

 new food-plant for the species ; in fact I am not aware that it has 

 been recorded as the food of any Macro-lepidopterous insect. — 

 [Rev.] Chas, F. Thornewill; The Soho, Burton-on-Trent. 



Notes on Platypteryx sicula. — I have great pleasure in 

 recording my success in breeding P. sicula. In the autumn of 

 last year, after a most diligent search, I succeeded in finding a 

 few larvse ; these turned to pupse during October. The first 

 specimen, a male, emerged May 18th. I much regret I was 

 unable to obtain fertile eggs. Two pairs were in copula over 

 twenty hours, but the eggs deposited proved infertile. I have 

 spent a good deal of time this season searching for this moth, but 

 only captured one specimen. As I have done rather better in 

 collecting the larvse this autumn, I trust I may be successful and 

 obtain fertile eggs. — W. K. Mann ; Clifton, Bristol. 



Hecatera dysodea in Northumberland. — We understand that 

 the two so-called H. dysodea, which were caught at Heaton Hall, 

 Northumberland, in September last, proved to be a case of 

 mistaken identity. The two moths taken at light were the local 

 variety of PoUa chi, with wings of delicate olive-green interrupted 

 by four transverse series of pure white spots. Five in all have 

 been captured. — Ed. 



Aplecta occulta at Ely. — I think perhaps it may interest 

 some of your readers to know that Aplecta occulta has been taken 

 by me in Ely, at sugar, on September 3rd, 5th and 13th, one on 

 each evening, and in good condition. Mr. Newman says " On the 

 wing in July," and does not record it as being taken in Cambridge- 

 shire. In July last I took Coremia qmidrifasciaria at Cromer, 

 Norfolk ; also at Stanstead, Essex. — W. J. Cross ; Ely. 



Aplecta occulta near Wimbledon. — While collecting in 

 August last, near Wimbledon, I took a specimen of the above 

 insect on a fence. Is not this rather uncommon so near 

 London? — A. Sinclair; Fulham, September 26, 1881. 



