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angustca, July 26th, 1910 ; Nemojihila noctiiella, August 7th, 1905 ; 

 Phlyctcenodcs verticalis, May, 1905, June and July, 1907, July, 1908; 

 Pionea prunalis, July 24th and 25th, 1905, July, 1912 ; Pyrausta 

 fuscalis, July 15th, 1900, one only; P. ces^ntalis, May and July; 

 P.imrpuralis, July 28th, 1900, June 21st, 1906; P. nyctemcralis, 

 July 1st, 1908, July 5th, 1916 ; P. funcbns, June 17th and 23rd, 1906, 

 May 31st, 1908, July, 1912. 



PTEROPHORiDiE : OxyptUus pilosellce, September 1st, 1904 ; 0. 

 teucrii, July and August; PlcUyjJtiUa acantJiodactijIa, July 4th, 

 1908, one specimen ; P. tcsseraclnctyla, June and July ; Ptcropliorus 

 tcphradactylus, July 11th, 1900, July 19th, 1005, July 15th, 1912 ; 

 Stenoptilia zophodactyla, June and July, 1906, August 8th and 12th, 

 1909; S. pterodactyla, August 6th, 1909. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSEEVATIONS. 



Hibernation of Aglais urtic^. — A. urticce began to hibernate 

 very early in 1918. Indeed, I do not remember to have seen more 

 than a couple in the garden after the break-up of the summer at the 

 end of August. This was about the third week of October ; none 

 appeared in September ; and for the first time in my recollection 

 Pyrameis atalanta was entirely absent. During the winter I have 

 found several " roosts" of urtica in the house ; and it is noticeable 

 that, just as the larvae are gregarious, and the pupa3 hang up (at any 

 rate in captivity) in close association, so the hibernating imagines 

 appear to cling together for the winter sleep in the cornice angles 

 selected. Probably this has been reported long since, but it has not 

 hitherto come under my own personal observation. — H. Kowland- 

 Brown ; Harrow Weald, Middlesex, February 9th, 1919. 



A Correction. — In the description of Fcenatopus iridipcnnis in 

 the February number, p. 30, 1. 38, for "simple, not bordered," read 

 "bordered." — E. A. Elliott; 16, Belsize Grove, N.W. 3, February 

 10th, 1919. 



Asthenia fimbriana, etc., in Essex. — I met with Asthenia 

 fimhriana in Thorndon Park on March 26th of last year. I had not 

 seen it previously, and think it must be a rather scarce Tortrix in 

 Essex. I have many times collected oak galls in the winter thinking 

 to get this species, but beyond Asthenia argyranct (in plenty) and a 

 single larva of Orgyia gonostigma they yielded nothing lepidopterous. 

 — F. G. Whittle ; 7, Marine Avenue, Southend-on-Sea. 



Solidago viRGAUREA IN EssEX. — Gerard's 'Herball' (1636), p. 429, 

 states that " Golden Eod groweth plentifully in a wood by Eayleigh in 

 Essex, hard by a Gentleman's house called Mr. Leonard, dwelling 

 upon Dawes lieath." This wood, prolxibly of much smaller extent 



