272 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
AcronycTa ALNI.—A larva of this rare moth was found at 
Sherringham, near Cromer, August 22nd last year, feeding on 
Spanish chestnut. Acting on advice we placed a hollow bramble 
stem with it, and it was soon taken possession of by the larva for 
pupation. A fine imago emerged May 22nd.— H. Miner; 
Ipswich, October, 1879. 
LEPIDOPTERA AT GUILDFORD.—It may interest some of your 
readers to know that, at Guildford, Abraxas grossulariata has 
become abundant and variable, the alar markings being seldom 
constant, and very often the two superior wings having different 
patterns. Insects seem on the whole to have been retarded in 
development by the wet season, especially those bred in 
confinement. The summer roses were all destroyed by the 
‘Tortrices, the cankerworms of our poets, but not of our Biblical 
T'ranslators, who employ the word, I hold, for immature locusts. 
—A. H. Swinton; Birfield House, Guildford. 
LiIrHosIA MESOMELLA IN THE NeEw Forest.—May I be 
permitted to answer Mr. Goss’s note (Entom. xi. 205)? I rather 
fancy he must have misunderstood the drift of my remarks 
(Kntom. xi. 106), and though the matter is not of much 
importance, I hope he will excuse me for correcting the error 
into which he seems to me to have fallen. My chief object in 
penning the note on the Lithostideé was to point to their rarity as 
a class, and that of the other lichen-feeding species to be 
captured in the Lyndhurst district, as compared with some other 
species whose food-plants are not nearly so abundant in the 
Forest,—for instance, Limenitis Sibylla. Mr. Goss will, I dare 
say, recollect that besides the immense amount of lichen which 
-has spread over the trees and bushes in the Forest to such an 
extent that it alone may be said to preponderate over the amount 
of food supplied by the leaves of any one species of tree grown 
there, the soil of all the heaths is densely overgrown by the 
ground-lichens, which, I believe, form the food-plants of Lithosia 
mesomella. ooking at these facts, it seemed to me rather odd 
that while the Argynnidé and L. Sibylla—all of which are exposed, 
as larve, like the Lithosiide, to the risk of hybernation—are 
usually common and frequently swarm, one might, during the 
two seasons I had an opportunity of looking after them, have 
worked for Lithosiide evening after evening and hardly seen a 
