164 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



NOTES AND OBSEEVATIONS. 



DiANTHiDiUM IN THE PHILIPPINE IsLANDS. — No Aiithidiine bee 

 has hitherto been recorded from the Philippines, but I have just 

 received from Prof. C. F. Baker a specimen collected at P. Princesa, 

 Palawan. It agrees with Anthidium minutissimum, Bingham, from 

 Jalar, and with A. javanicum, Friese, from Java. It is, however, a 

 Dianthidium, and since Bingham's name has priority, it will stand 

 as Dianthidium minutissimuin. — T. D. A. Cockerell ; University 

 of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. 



Sphinx ligustei two winters in Pupa. — On June 18th, 1915, 

 a female of S. ligustri was brought to me which had laid eleven ova 

 in the box it was brought in. Ten larvae emerged on July 2nd, 

 resulting in eight pupae which passed over the winter of 1915-16. 

 Seven imagines emerged during June, 1916 — two on the 7th, 

 three on 9th, one on 15th, one on 17th. One pupas laid over the 

 winter of 1916-17, and a fine female emerged on June 6th last. I 

 thought perhaps it might be interesting to record this retarded 

 emergence. — H. L. Dolton ; 36, Chester Street, Oxford Eoad, 

 Reading. 



Preponderance of the Female Sex in Bupalus piniaria. — On 

 September 20th, 1916, I beat out several larv® of this species, which 

 duly pupated. During the latter end of May last seventeen specimens 

 emerged in all. Fourteen were females and three male ; twelve of the 

 females are like the one figured in ' Moths of the British Isles,' 

 PI. cxli ; one female is the same colour as the male (Fig. 9) on the same 

 plate, and the other female is just a shade lighter than the last in 

 colour. Is not this preponderance of females rather extraordinary, 

 because I have often noticed when netting this species one usually 

 gets about ten males to one female ? — H. L. Dolton ; 36, Chester 

 Street, Oxford Road, Reading. 



Larva op Dilina tili^ on Cork Tree. — Last September my son 

 took a full-fed larva of this moth at Torquay upon the cork tree, 

 which is common in that district. It duly pupated in a few days, and 

 the perfect insect emerged at the end of May ; a fine female. I was 

 under the impression that D. tilice was rather conservative in its diet, 

 and that lime and elm were its only foods. Perhaps a note upon 

 the novel diet of this moth may be of interest. — H. D.Ford ; Thursby 

 Vicarage, Carlisle. 



Saturnia oarpini in the Orkney Islbs. — On May 15th in the 

 Orkney Islands I took, at an altitude of 600 ft., a male and female of 

 the above species resting in the heather. — Sub-Lieut. F. Schunck, 

 R.N. 



Plusia moneta in Surrey. — It has been suggested by some 

 collectors that possibly the extremely severe winter we have just had 

 has seriously affected the appearance of this lovely insect. I see it is 

 recorded from Middlesex in your issue of June, 1917. Collecting at 

 Horsley on June 3rd this year, Mr. Alf. J. Lawrance and myself found 



