100 THE ENTOMOLOGIST, 



Understanding from Mr. Woodbridge that he had obtained 

 considerable numbers of specimens, and C. incanana being 

 usually scarce, I wrote for further particulars, which he has now 

 sent, and as they are of much interest I quote them in full. 



Mr. Woodbridge says, in litt. : 



" I got them by beating the lower boughs of Scotch Fir and 

 Juniper bushes in Rothiemurchus Forest, near Aviemore, Inver- 

 ness-shire last August, and also the preceding August, plenti- 

 fully. I looked for traces of S. nutans (blue-bell), but could not 

 find any. In August I should have expected to have found 

 traces of the seed-heads, but the leaves would have disappeared. 

 I inquired from the people I was staying with whether the 

 English blue-bell was found where I got the insects, which was 

 close by, but they did not appear to know it at all. The whole 

 of the ground under the pine-trees is covered with heather and 

 bilberry and does not look suitable for blue-bell, except in one or 

 two places. The moth is local, but fairly plentiful during the first 

 two weeks in August, close to Coylum Bridge, at the side of the 

 beginning of the path leading on to the Larig Pass to Braemar. 

 It flies, or rather beats out, better at dusk, and when beaten out 

 then flies. If beaten out in the daytime it usually dives into 

 the heather. I have never been to Aviemore in May or June 

 and so do not know what flowers there are then in the place 

 where I took this insect, but I should not think there is much 

 other than bilberry, heather, and cranberry. I should expect 

 that the larvse feed upon bilberry." 



It will be remembered that Mr. E. R. Bankes, in ' Ento- 

 mologists' Monthly Magazine,' xxxv, p. 105, describes the larvte 

 of this species from specimens sent to him by Dr. H. H. Corbett 

 from Doncaster ; these larvae feed amongst the flowers of Scilla 

 nutans, and Mr. Bankes adds that he learns from Mr. Elisha 

 that from spun-up flowers of Chrysanthemum leucanthemum , col- 

 lected by himself in a wood in North Kent, he has occasionally 

 bred a few examples of C. incanana, together with many of C. 

 jiasivana. 



It seems probable, therefore, that in common with so many 

 species of the group, C. incanana is a general feeder. 



Youlgreave, South Croydon ; 

 March 31st, 1917. 



NEW SPECIES OF GEOMETEID^ FROM THE 

 PHILIPPINES. 



By a. E. Wileman and Richard South. 



The four species here described were taken at Haight'& 

 Place (7000 ft.), Pauai, in the sub-province of Benguet, Luzon. 



