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containing the infected specimens. This I tried, and other specimens 

 I treated by applying with a small soft brush. In both cases the 

 method has proved entirely successful, and now, after a year, there is 

 no trace of " mould," though some of the specimens had given 

 trouble in this way for twenty-five years and had not yielded to 

 other methods. I think perhaps this information may be useful to 

 readers of the 'Entomologist.' — C. A. Schunck, F.E.S.; Enchine, 

 W. Wallingford, Oxon. 



An Experiment on Andrena fulva. — On April 23rd I caught 

 six female Andrena fulva in Kensington Gardens. I took the six 

 home in a small box, stupefied them with cyanide of potassium, 

 marked them with white paint on the thorax, and let them out the 

 next morning. Four fell into the road, but the other two were each 

 at their nests in about half an hour. The distance was about half 

 a mile; three-quarters of it was between houses. — D. G. Sevastopulo ; 

 Colvin House, Haileybury College, Herts. — May 8th, 1919. 



Spilosoma urtic^ in the Isle of Wight. — In looking over a 

 book of the records of this island and Hampshire I see that 

 Spilosoma urticcB has only once been taken ; I had the good luck to 

 pick up a caterpillar on the island on August 27th, 1918, which 

 pupated next day and came out on the 8th of this month. It would 

 be interesting to know if there are any recent records of this moth 

 being found in the Isle of Wight. — W. Godfrey ; Jessamine Cottage, 

 Shankhn, May 11th, 1919. 



EuoRis OCCULTA IN LINCOLNSHIRE. — On arriving home from 

 Belgium and working through back numbers of the ' Entomologist,' 

 I noticed Mr. Thos. H. Court's note (vol. li, p. 259) on this moth. 

 On July 30th, 1914, I took a specimen at sugar at Freshney Bog, 

 Little Coates, about a mile from Grimsby. — F. W. Sowerby ; Clee- 

 thorpes, Lincolnshire, May 1st, 1919. 



Plusia moneta F. at Hart, Co. Durham. — I was delighted to 

 find a few days ago that two plants of Aconitum napellus, which I 

 have in my garden here, were very much affected by larvae which had 

 spun the flower heads together, and upon i-eferring to Barrett and 

 reading the account which he quotes from Mr. F. de Laune of the 

 habits and mode of feeding of P. moneta larva, I had no difficulty in 

 coming to the conclusion that they were the young larvae of that 

 species. Since then some have changed their skins, making a con- 

 siderable diff'erence in their appearance which has placed the matter 

 beyond doubt. Anyone unacquainted with the young larvae of P. 

 moneta and habit of feeding, coming across them for the first time, 

 might well be excused for thinking they were Tortrix larvae. This is 

 a new and very interesting record for the county, and must, I think, 

 be the most northern yet recorded for England. — J. Gardner ; Laurel 

 Lodge, Hart, May 16th, 1919. 



EUPITHECIA ALBIPUNCTATA VAR. ANGELICATA IN SuRREY. — From a 



few larvffi of E. alhiimnctata collected last August in Surrey, I bred 

 on May 6th one fine example of var. ayujelicata, Barrett. According 

 to South's book, " The Moths of the British Isles," this form has 



