114 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
The Phytophaga were, as regards certain species, the most 
numerously represented of the Order. Visiting a wood near 
here in search of Zeugophora flavicollis, towards the end of 
September, I found the aspens almost defoliated by Lina tremule. 
The insect literally abounded. On one plant of five short stems, 
the tallest being less than a foot and a half high, were thirty 
pups. Eleven had congregated under one leaf, and nine were 
attached to one stem. On another stem, about twenty-four 
inches high, were twenty-six imagos. The beetle was to be found 
in all stages, from a small larva to the perfect insect. In another 
wood the aspen was severely attacked by Phratora vitelline, 
assisted by Crepidodera helxines, and on the chalk hills I found 
Galeruca viburni equally common on Viburnum lantana. My 
best captures were Lema puncticollis, Phedon cochlearie (on 
water-cress), Phratora cavifrons (on aspen), Crepidodera pubescens, 
Phyllotreta tetrastigma, Thyamis femoralis, Psylliodes attenuata 
(on the hop-plant), and Cassida nobilis and C. hemispherica. 
Amongst some things collected, and given to me unset by a 
friend, I found Dermestes Frischit and D. undulatus. 
Kingsnorth, Ashford, February 12, 1880. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 
AMPHYSA PRODROMANA.—I was glad to see the life-history of this 
species described by Mr. C. 8. Gregson (Entom. xiii. 90). A few 
further notes may be interesting to some of the readers of the 
“Entomologist.” It occurs in this district on the elevated moor- 
lands at Staley-Brushes and elsewhere, near Manchester, in April. 
The male flies only during the late morning and early afternoon 
sunshine, and occurs amongst Calluna vulgaris and Vaccinium 
myrtillus,. which plants I consider to be, probably, its natural 
food. Towards three or four o’clock they settle on the tips of the 
twigs, where also the females may be found, and not unfrequently 
in cop. Later in the day they fall off the twigs or creep down 
the stems amongst the dead leaves on the ground, and it is then 
a puzzle to find them. I have taken this species for a number 
of years, but never in such abundance as on the 21st of April, 
1876, when I netted about seventy males, mostly worn, and, by 
searching on hands and knees, secured one hundred and thirteen 
