32 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



At Alexandria in September I got; a magnificent Oleander 

 Hawk -moth at a hotel light, together with a few Deiopeia 

 pulchella. Acherontia otropos was also said to be coming to light 

 fairly commonly then, but I did not come across it. A visit to 

 the Nouzha Gardens, outside the town, added no fresh species to 

 my collection. Lampides ha^iicus, Gegenes nostrodamus, and 

 Pachyzancia licarsicaUs were abundant, and I took one or two 

 Pyrameis cardui and Cbapra mathias. 



During my stay in Cairo I was greatly helped by Dr. Gough 

 and Mr. Storey, tbe entomologists in the Ministry of Agriculture, 

 and by Messrs. NichoU and Bonhote, of the Zoological Gardens. 

 To Mr. Storey I am especially indebted for identifying speci- 

 mens ; he, besides collecting with me at Ma'adi and Sakkara, 

 accompanied me to Cyprus, to which island I had the good luck 

 to be sent for about three weeks' convalescence. 



NOTES ON CONCHYLIS FLAVICILIANA. 

 By W. G. Sheldon, F.E.S. 



In 'Entomologist,' xlix, p. 20, there is a note of mine on the 

 occurrence in Surrey, in 1915, of larvte which I considered 

 could only be this species. Last year I was able to pursue the 

 matter further. 



On July 19th I bred a single imago, the only one that emerged,, 

 which proved that my supposition was correct. Presumably 

 I had not treated tbe larvae properly during hibernation, for there 

 M^ere a good number of them. 



I visited the locality in which were found the larvae in 1915, 

 four times between July 15th and July 26th, with the result 

 that I netted eleven specimens ; I was on the ground as early 

 as 7 p.m., but as far as could be ascertained the images only flew 

 from 8.30 to 9 p.m. 



Towards the end of August I again visited the locality to 

 obtain some larvae, but, alas! found the whole hillside, which 

 in an ordinary summer only produces a thin crop not worth 

 mowing, had been mown, I suppose owing to tbe extra crop 

 produced by the wet season, and also probably in consequence' 

 of the increased value of hay. Anyhow, with the exception of a 

 few plants of Knautia arvensis which grew amongst some bushes, 

 and which were crowded with larvae, the whole stock waB- 

 destroyed. 



This catastrophe induced me to examine the whole of the 

 ground within a mile or so around, with the result that I 

 eventually found another small locality in which C. flaviciliana 

 larvae were not infrequent. This search helped me to realise: 

 the excessive localnef s of the insect and its inability to spread.. 



