50 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Entomological Notes, Captures, 8fc. 



Lateness of the Season of 1871. — My experience, in a 

 great measure, corresjDonds with that of Mr. Clifford 

 (Entom. V. 446). I look Progemmaria, Rupicapraria, and 

 Multistrigala, about the middle of February, which seemed to 

 me about an average, if not a backward, period for these 

 early species, as in 1869 I took them in January and very 

 early in February. Such incidents, however, would scarcely 

 be worth notice if the season had continued an average one ; 

 but during May and June everything seemed more or less 

 late in appearing: for instance, in former seasons I have 

 taken Sibylla and Adippe quite by the middle of June, and 

 occasional specimens early in the month ; but this season I 

 did not take either till the end of June, and both were out in 

 fine condition up to the 18th or 20lh of July. Euphrosyne 

 and Selene were not " well out" till the first or second week 

 in June, and then they did not appear so commonly as 

 usual ; in fact, I do not find Selene so abundant now as 1 did 

 when I began collecting a few years ago. We need scarcely 

 wonder at the lateness of the season if we recollect what a 

 March-like June we experienced, and the biting east and 

 north-east winds, which, night after night, compelled us to 

 return home with empty boxes. The latter portion of the 

 summer and the early autumn seem to have given British 

 collectors a very fair sprinkling of good things. Some nights 

 at the beginning of September, and, indeed, throughout the 

 month, moths swarmed at sugar in this neighbourhood, 

 though all of the commonest species. What was wanting in 

 quality was certainly made up by quantity. — G. B. Corbin, 

 Ringwood. 



Ivy. — These attractive blossoms have been rather pro- 

 ductive, for besides the usual visitors, as Lota, Pistacina, 

 Vaccinii, and Spadicea, whose absence would have been 

 worthy of observation, I have had the pleasure of seeing 

 Nigra, Rhizolitha, Exoleta, Rubiginea, and Fluviata, though 

 only one each of the latter. The Rubiginea was taken on the 

 night of October 20lh, at which period a very cold wind 

 prevailed, and scarcely a single species of moth seemed to be 

 on the wing; in fact, 1 saw but three Spadicea on the same 

 evening. It is, perhaps, worthy of remark, that I have never 



