NOTES, CAPTURES, ETC. 147 
pretty one. The eggs of A. flavicornis retain their coral tint, but gradually 
lose in brightness. Before nightfall—I am now referring to my last Dela- 
mere visit—a cold rain set in; and next day, March 27th, there was a 
general fall of snow from the N.E. April was ushered in by warm, summer- 
like weather. Mr. C. Leeson Prince, writing from the Observatory, Crow- 
borough, to the ‘Standard’ for April 11th, says :—*“ We have had the highest 
recorded temperature since 1848 during the first April six days. In 1848 
the average temperature for the six days was 69°; in 1892, 67°. The fine 
weather broke up on the 12th, with snow, as in 1848. Previous to the 
break up I took three larve of Arctia caia, April 8rd; and an imagine of 
Pieris rape on April 10th. In my breeding-pots, the first Tephrosia biun- 
dularia var. delameriensis (first brood, bred from the moths of last summer) 
appeared, March 22nd; TYeniocampa instabilis and T. opima, April 4th; 
T. gothica, April 8th. All of these were bred from the egg, but none of 
the species deserve special comment except J’. opima, with which I have 
been exceptionally fortunate this year. Up to date, April 2lst, twelve 
specimens have emerged. ‘They exhibit, I believe, every variety of the 
moth, from the darkest to the lightest; the latter appeared to be the type; 
all were bred from the same batch of eggs, and under the same conditions. 
Some of the forms are very beautiful, and would puzzle many an experienced 
entomologist. Agrotis ashworthii larve have been scarce, but imagines of 
N. zonaria plentiful,—to entomologists who know where to go, and when. 
Three years ago I laid down scores of zonaria eggs in a likely spot near 
Chester, but all my efforts to establish the insect have been unsuccessful. 
Diurnea fagella is just now, exceptionally and generally, abundant, and 
“black” forms are frequent among the types—J. ARKLE; Chester, 
April 21, 1892. 
Hrrata.—Page 119, line 16 from top, for Leucanium he misphericum 
read Lecanium hemisphericum ; page 126, line 4 from top, for Saletaria 
read Salatura, and for Limnias read Limnas. 
SOCIETIES. 
EnromonoetcaL Soctery or Lonpon.—April 27th, 1892.—Mr. Robert 
McLachlan, F'.R.S., Treasurer, in the chair. Mr. William Edward Baily, 
of Lynwood House, Paul Churchtown, Penzance; and Mons. Edmond 
Fleutiaux, of 1, Rue Malus, Paris, were elected Fellows of the Society. 
Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited, for Mr. Sabine, varieties of the following 
species :—viz., one of Papilio machaon, bred by Mr. 8. Baily, at Wicken, 
in 1886; one of Argynnis lathonia, taken at Dover in September, 1883 ; 
one of A. euphrosyne, taken at Dover in 1890; and one of A. selene, taken 
at St. Osyth, in 1885, by Mr. W. H. Harwood. He also exhibited a long 
series of Demas coryli, reared by Major Still from larvee fed exclusively on 
beech, which he said appeared to be the usual food of the species in Devon- 
hire, instead of hazel or oak. Mr. Barrett also exhibited, for Mr. Sydney 
Webb, a number of varieties of Arge galathea, Lasiommata megera, 
Hipparchia tithonus, and Cenonympha pamphilus, from the neighbourhood 
of Dover. The Rey. J. Seymour St. John exhibited a variety of the female 
of Hybernia progemmaria, taken at Clapton in March last, in which the 
partially developed wings were equally divided in point of colour, the base 
beiug extremely dark and the outer portion of the wing very pale. The 
