259 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
fair specimen of Nonagria brevilinea flying over reeds in Monk’s 
Wood, when sugaring there on the night of July 18th. The 
specimen was identified by I. G. Styan, Esq., B.A., of Trinity 
College, and also by Mr. Brown, of Cambridge. As far as I 
have heard, this is the first specimen of Brevilinea taken in the 
above locality—A. E. Hunrrr; Jesus College, Cambridge, 
August 29, 1879. 
LEPIDOPTERA TAKEN IN 1879.—At the end of June I collected 
8650 pupxe of Abraxas grossulariata from a garden in the 
neighbourhood of Manchester. The imagines appeared on Ist July, 
and the number which emerged kept increasing each day. On 
the 11th, 180 appeared: I then discontinued collecting. About 
one hundred varieties are now set out, so that I think it may be 
inferred that species as often as not are much liable to vary, 
even after having fed in their wild state. Fresh specimens of 
Chortobius Davus were flying on Chat Moss on 12th July. On 
the 19th, at Lyndhurst, in the New Forest, Aplecta herlida was 
just over, the banded variety of Boarmia repandata had been 
taken freely at sugar, together with Calligenia miniata, Thyatira 
derasa, T’. batis, Acronycta tridens, Leucania turca, Noctua 
brunnea, N. festiva, Euplexia lucipara, Aplecta nebulosa, and a 
number of other common things. I remained in the Forest 
until the 28th. During the first few days Zygena meliloti was 
fresh, and I captured a confluent variety. Boarmia roboraria 
was just over, one specimen taken being rather worn. For 
several days I noticed that both Limenitis Sibylla and Aryynnis 
Paphia were scarce, but the 28th being a bright and favourable 
day, they were abundant, fresh from the pupa. There were, 
however, very few female A. Paphia on the wing, yet my 
companions took a beautiful specimen of the var. Valezina. 
I first made my acquaintance with the Forest about ten years 
ago, when Catocala sponsa was so plentiful that I knocked them 
off the sugar. Since that memorable year until the present 
I had not noticed many of the several species which are 
periodically abundant there. Lithosia quadra sometimes turns 
up in plenty, but this year might almost be chronicled as the 
“Quadra year.” I have had the pleasure of collecting a number 
of the larve of that insect, and brought away with me 2000 of 
them, but regret to find that they are uncommonly cannibalistic, 
for each I succeeded in rearing must have eaten at least six of its 
