THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 3l7 



and Mr. Stubbs, the post-master, showed me a beautiful 

 specimen of D. Galii, bred from a larva found near that place 

 on the Berkshire side of the river, about two years and a half 

 ago. I believe that this is an entirely new locality for it. — 

 G. B. Hulme ; Manor House, Newton Valence, near Alton, 

 Hants. 



SnierintJius Populi in January. — I have just met a lad 

 with a splendid specimen of Sinerinthus Populi in his hand. 

 He found it at the root of a poplar, and it was evidently just 

 out of the chrysalis, the wings being quite limp. — W. Sim- 

 mon d ; 6, Townsend Road, Hertford, January 20, 1873. 



Is Bemheciformis in Pupa in January ? — In the ' Ento- 

 mologist' for last month, I see pupje of Bemheciformis for 

 sale. Can it be possible there are pupae of this insect at this 

 time of year. I do not know whether Bemheciformis goes 

 into pupa in the south of England in winter; it certainly 

 does not here. It is feeding in the larva state until May, and 

 the imago comes out in June the same year. — James Powall. 



F. conspicuala. — I think a few remarks on this very local 

 little moth may prove interesting. It is double-brooded, 

 appearing early in May and again in July; flies in the hot 

 sunshine; and on wet or cloudy days may be found resting, 

 with wings closed over its back, on the under side of the 

 broom-bushes. I always beat the larvae from the second 

 week up to the end of September. They are a good deal 

 infested with ichneumons, one large one emerging from a 

 caterpillar. As far as my experience goes, it is a difficult 

 insect to breed. In 1870 I took a female, in good condition, 

 as late as September 17th, when brushing for the larvae, which 

 were very abundant, a good many being full fed. I know now 

 but of two localities near here where Conspicuata can be 

 taken with certainty ; and in both these places, I am sorry 

 to say, the broom is being gradually cut down. Spartiata (in 

 abundance) and Obliquaria (much less commonly) are also 

 natives of these localities. — E. F. Bisshopp ; Ipswich, 

 January 1, 1873. 



Nola centonalis at Freshivater. — When in the Isle of 

 Wight, last July, I took what I then passed over as Cristulalis ; 

 but now that the busy time is over 1 find, on looking carefully 

 through the work of the past season, that I have a much rarer 

 species, namely, Nola centonalis. On comparing Centonalis 



