NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 279' 



This time I have Mr. Durrant's support for the identification. 

 It is a curious coincidence that I should thus come across this 

 rare insect after having already erroneously claimed its capture. 

 Tricliophaga tapetzella was very common in the same chateau. 



Tinea corticella occurred in Nieppe Forest ; 7'. granella 

 at Arras. 



Incurvaria oehlmanniella and /. mmcaldla were both taken at 

 Avesnes. 



Nemoplwra swammerdammelli , at Avesnes. 



Adela degeerella was taken at Avesnes, very commonly at 

 Fruges, and in Belgium. 



Eriocrania suhpurpurella was abundant at Avesnes. 



I am greatly indebted to Mr. Durrant and Mr. B. Morley, 

 of Huddersfield, for great assistance in the identification of 

 TineidsB, and to the Army Post Office for conveying to England 

 many boxes of insects with no loss and a minimum of damage. 



CoKKiGENDUM. — On p. 253, for Epione apiciaria read E. advenaria. — H.D. S. 



NOTES AND OBSEEVATIONS. 



Ch^eocampa elpenor larv^ on Balsam. — Mr. A. G. Scorer, 

 in the September number of the ' Entomologist,' mentions tbe wild 

 balsam as a food-plant of the larva of G. elpenor hitherto unnoticed. 

 I should like to say that when I lived at Weybridge I always found 

 the larva of elp)enor feeding on that plant, which grows abundantly 

 on the banks of the Wey, and never found it on anything else. — 

 (Eev.) J. E. Tarbat ; Fareham, Hants. 



Apples attacked by the larvae op Porthesia similis 

 (auriflua). — On September 29th I was looking round an apple-tree 

 in my garden, to see if the fruit was ready for gathering, when I 

 noticed that a small bunch of leaves at the end of a branch were 

 skeletonised. On seeking the cause I found that an apple growing 

 just below them had been denuded of a large portion of its skin, 

 and on an adjacent one I discovered about a score of young larvae 

 of Porthesia similis busily engaged in devouring its skin also. 

 There were plenty of leaves on the tree, and it would therefore 

 appear that the larvae had taken to the fruit from choice rather 

 than from necessity. — Eobert Adkin ; "Hodeslea," Eastbourne, 

 October, 1917. 



Macroglossa stellatarum in Bedfordshire. — On October 24th 

 last I found in an empty house in Bedford a live specimen of Macro- 

 glossa stellatarum. It was somewhat rubbed on the thorax and at 

 the wing tips and died the same evening. — H. F. Stoneham, Capt., 

 F.E.S., M.B.O.U. ; " Stoneleigh," Eeigate, Surrey. 



Tortrix pronubana in London District. — During the -past 

 week I have taken larvae, pupae, and imagines of Tortrix pronu- 

 bana commonly on Euonymus and privet bushes at Chiswick. — 



