196 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Captures in the Neio Forest, July \Mh to 2I5L — 

 Encouraged by the success of last season, I visited this well- 

 known locality for Lepidoptera ; but how different would have 

 been nay impression if this had been my first visit! The 

 swarms of Diurni which made the day-collecting of last 

 season so pleasant were reduced to individuals; the perse- 

 veringly applied and cunningly concocted sugar " wasted its 

 fragrance on the desert air;" so that the day had to be 

 devoted to the more remunerative pursuit of A. caliginosa, 

 A. immutata, H. auroraria, and other less local species, the 

 evening's raothing being perhaps the most interesting, the 

 following flying on heath at dusk : — A. plumaria, though more 

 freely in the sun ; G. obscurata, larger and darker than usual ; 

 A. straminata, a few in fine condition occurring at wide 

 distances apart. A small tract of swamp produced A. emu- 

 taria flying over rushes, L. straminea, N. despecta, and many 

 commoner species, but nothing to make up for the absence 

 of last year's splendid sugaring. — W. England Davis. 



Phycis Davisellus. — I obtained this species again in its 

 habitat of last year (the Isle of Wight), on the 18th of July : 

 a search for the food resulted in the discovery of the larva 

 with its parasite. I have since bred a few specimens of both 

 species. — Id. 



Melanthia ocellata double-brooded. — On the 12th of June, 

 1872, I captured a female of this insect, and obtained from 

 her several eggs : these hatched on the 26th June, fed up on 

 Galium verum, and changed about the 27th July. The 

 perfect insect emerged on the 6th of August, and from a 

 female I have another supply of eggs. I shall be glad to 

 know from any of your correspondents if they have noted this 

 insect to be double-brooded. — JV. D. Cansdale ; White 

 House, Wiiham, August 12, 1872. 



Melanthia albicillata at Darenth: Deilephila livorrtica at 

 Sydenham. — I took Melanthia albicillata in Darenth Wood 

 last week. In August, 1870, I also took Deilephila livornica 

 flying in our garden at Sydenham. — R. D. Etheridge ; 59, 

 Sydenham Park, Sydenham, S.E., August 9, 1872. 



Ptilophora plumigera fed on Sycamore. — It may interest 

 your correspondent Mr. J. R. S. Clifford (Entom. p. 173) to 

 know that this season 1 reared the larvse of Ptilophora plu- 

 migera, from the egg to full growth, on sycamore. — G. T. 

 Porritt ; Huddersjield, August 16, 1872. 



