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course of ten days. The perfect insects began to appear in about 
eighteen days, and the females at once commenced to deposit 
their eggs. Is Antiqua commonly found on the broom? This 
plant is not given in Owen Wilson’s list of food-plants. Has 
Antiqua been recorded from Sutherlandshire before ?—L. Durr 
Dunzar; Ackergill Tower, Wick, N.B., July 8, 1879. 
(In the “Insecta Scotica,” as published in the ‘Scottish 
Naturalist,’ Dr. Buchanan White records Orgyia antiqua as a 
certain inhabitant of his Moray district, and probably of 
Sutherland. It is exactly the same case with C. campestris 
in Dr. Sharp’s list of Coleoptera. Last June I found the 
latter insect very abundant at Braemar, at an elevation of about 
1400 feet. The larva of O. antiqua has been found commonly on 
many of the Scotch moors, generally feeding on the heather, but 
occasionally on Vaccinium. The fact of such a polyphagous 
larva feeding on broom cannot by any means be considered 
unprecedented.—E. A. F.] 
Tue WEATHER, AND ITS Errects on LEepmpopTeRA.—lI can 
quite corroborate Mr. J. Jenner Weir’s interesting note on this 
subject (Hntom. xi. 179). In the district where I at present 
reside (Hornsey) up to the present time both plants and insects 
have been unusually retarded in their development by the long- 
continued winter and cheerless spring and summer through 
which we have so far passed. I have kept a rough daily record 
as to the state of the weather and the occurrence of Lepidoptera, 
and beg to offer from it the following notes. At present a casual 
visitor would imagine that insect-life was all but extirpated here, 
for I have only seen the commonest species, and but few speci- 
mens of them. If I recollect rightly 1875 was not a forward year 
at first; but, on the 17th May, the oaks at Lyndhurst were 
advanced enough to supply food for the larvee of Himera pennaria 
and other common species which do not hatch till the spring, and 
which were then over an inch long; and the Pieride were out 
before the 12th of May. This year the oaks did not assume a 
green tint till the 26th of May. I observed the first Pieris 
brassice sunning itself on the banks of the cutting through which 
the Great Northern Railway approaches Hornsey Station, on the 
10th of June. I saw the first hawthorn blossom on the 5th of 
June. Last year, in spite of the early part of the summer being 
anything but brillant, I found Canonympha Pamphilus, and 
