202 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 
Tur WEATHER, AND ITS EFFECTS ON LEPIDOPTERA.—Apropos 
of Mr. J. Jenner Weir’s suggestion in the July number (Entom. 
xil., 179), I venture to give a few notes from my diary on the 
times of emergence of certain species of Lepidoptera in confine- 
ment, contrasting last season (1878), which was rather an early 
one, with the present unusually late one, collecting, for example, 
half a dozen species which I have reared numbers of each year. 
On account of the retardation in the advancement of vegetation 
this spring many of the hybernating larve did not make their 
appearance until very late; notwithstanding this I have found 
many to be more abundant than usual, the long and severe 
winter not diminishing their numbers. I usually begin searching 
for larvee as soon as the hawthorn hedges show any signs of 
budding. Orgyia fascelina is generally the first to appear, and 
the earliest day I could find that species this year was April 6th; 
last year I found it as early as March 7th. The following species, 
kept indoors under similar conditions each season, will also 
show, 1n most cases, a great difference in the time of emergence: 
—Smerinthus ocellatus this year came out on July 9th; last year 
they first appeared on May 17th. Sphinx Ligustri first emerged 
this year on June 18th, compared with June 1st last year. The 
first imagos of O. fascelina this year emerged on June 29th; last 
year the earliest date was June 13th. Exotic species have also 
been affected to a considerable extent. Attacus Pernyi first 
appeared this year on May 26th; last year they were much 
earlier, the date being April 11th. A. Cecropia first “arrived ” 
on June 22nd; last year this species began to emerge on May 
llth. Another species, A. Cynthia, first came out on July 5th; 
last year the first emergence was on May 22nd. As the length of 
time is considerable in which some of the above-mentioned 
species are in the larval state—that of A. Cecropia being about 
ten weeks—it will be very late in the autumn before the larve 
are full fed. Yesterday (July 4th) a specimen of Dicranura 
Vinula emerged from the pupa; this species in an average season 
is due in May or early in June.—R. Lappiman; Norwich, July 
5, 1879. 
THE EFFECT OF THE LATE SEASON ON Pup. 
The date given 
by Newman and others for the appearance of Orgyia pudibunda is 
