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margin proceed faint indications of two parallel median dark brown lines. 
The first, nearest the base, is central; it is often continued across the wing. 
The second is short, and rarely continued to the centre of the wing. The 
antenne (in the male) are delicately ciliated; the head, thorax, and body 
are dark grey. Abundant. All my captures of H. leucophearia were 
males. I did not see a single specimen of the apterous females. Second 
form.—Fore wings dark brown ; the grey band is more clearly defined, and 
with two dark brown blotches near the tip on its interior boundary line; 
otherwise similar to the type. Common. Third form.—Fore wings black- 
brown ; the grey band is reduced to a series of four or five indistinct spots ; 
lower half of hind wings smoky brown; otherwise similar to the type. A 
beautiful, but scarce, form: throughout the day I only took three speci- 
mens. Feb. 14th. Chester. Off a wall-coping I took a male H. marginaria 
(progemmaria), and a fine dark female P. pedaria. 15th. Total change in the 
weather; wind, N.E., with snow showers. 16th. Hard frost. 17th. Showers 
of snow from the N.W.; snow again covering the streets. 18th. Intense 
frost; weather general, and on the Continent; 18° of frost at Chester. 
20th. Severe frost yet; a N.E. gale to-night; blizzards in the South of 
England; skating here; snow all over the country; equally severe in 
Ireland, and on the Continent south of this latitude as far as Venice; 
strong, disastrous gales at Gibraltar; thunder and lightning with the 
South of England snowstorms. About two miles out of Chester I came 
upon a bank of blue, scented violets free from snow, having a south aspect. 
21st. Complete thaw; frost and snow all gone; S.S.E.; sunny, warm. 
Female P. pedaria laid eggs in a crevice in her chip-box ; eggs dull green, 
elliptical. 25th. A warm, dark night; thunderstorm with lightning away 
in the east. Found, next day, the centre of the storm had broken over 
Delamere Forest, where it was very violent. H. rupicapraria, H. margi- 
naria, abundant on gas-lamps; also P. pedaria. 26th. Same insects 
plentiful on the gas-lamps; warm. March Ist. N.E., bitterly cold; hard 
frost. 3rd. Nota moth on the lamps; bitter and cold. 8th. Up to to-day 
bitter cold N.E. breezes, with frost. 9th. Heavy snowfall. The ‘Standard,’ 
of to-day, says:—‘‘ A more backward spring could not well be; and March 
has neither come in with the ferocity of the lion nor the gentleness of the 
lamb, but rather with the surliness of the bear.”—J. ARKLE; Chester, 
March, 1892. 
CH@ROCAMPA NERII: AN ADDITIONAL RECORD.—Having recommenced 
collecting, after a lapse of some sixteen years, I have recently been reading 
last year’s ‘ Entomologist,’ and see, on pp. 195 and 221, a list of authentic 
British specimens of Cherocampa nerit. Will you kindly let me state that 
I have in my cabinet a very good specimen, which was caught at Ascot by 
a gardener in June, 1873, by whom it was given to a friend of my brother, 
who was then a boy at school at Eton. He gave it to my brother, who 
brought it home with him, and it has been in my cabinet ever since. The 
capture was recorded in the ‘ Field’ newspaper of June 28th, 1873.—E. F. 
Strupp; Oxton, Exeter, April 16, 1892. 
CoLLecTING IN ABERDEENSHIRE.—We have had a very severe winter 
in the North, and as much of my collecting has been performed in the 
midst of blinding snowstorms, it will be at once apparent that my exertions 
have not added much to my former store of larve or pup. I have had 
most success with Acronycta myrice. As is well known, the larva of this 
insect spins its cocoon in any crevice it may find on stone walls, palings, 
