166 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Ennomos quercinaria : Abundant at Hesdin in 1918. OdontoTpara 

 hidentata : One captured at Hesdin in 1918. Earymene dolabraria: 

 A freshly einerged specimen taken at rest at Hesdin in 1918. Ange- 

 rona j^yunaria : Common at Hesdin in 1918. Aviphidasys betidaria: 

 A specimen, black save for the base of the wings, was found crushed 

 by the roadside near Grand RuUecourt in 1916. Phigalia pedaria : 

 One taken at rest near Albert in 1918. Biston hirtaria : Very 

 abundant on the birches at Flixecourt in 1919. Scotosia undulata : 

 One taken at Hesdin in 1918. Sesia culiciformis \ Three taken in 

 Beauval in 1918 and one at Flixecourt in 1918. — Norman C. E. 

 Miller ; 66, Ellington Eoad, Ramsgate, Kent. 



The Lepidoptera op Macedonia. — The following additional 

 and corroborative notes on the Lepidoptera of Macedonia may be 

 of interest : Manduca atropos, twenty or thirty full-fed larvae, both 

 brown and green forms, a mile or two north of Salonica (October, 

 1915). D. eiqjhorbicB, full-fed larvse common on marshy ground, 

 Struma Valley (July, 1916). Ghrysophanus dispar (presumably var, 

 rutilus), common. Struma Valley (July, 1916). Nomiades semiargus, 

 locally common. Struma Valley (June, 1916). E. argiades, fairly 

 common in one or two places, Struma (June-July, 1916). L.sinapis, 

 abundant among young maples, Hortiach Plateau (April-May, 1916). 

 — H. V. Wilson ; 4, Percival Terrace, Brighton, June 3rd, 1919. 



Parthenogenesis in Lymantria dispar.— Last year my son, 

 while a prisoner in Holland, obtained two larvae of Lymantria llispar — 

 " The Gipsy." These were kept in a large wooden breeding cage with 

 wire gauze and glass sides. Two females emerged and laid their 

 eggs on their silken cocoons. As he had no male he did not think 

 more about them. Last May I noticed a lot of small larvjB crawling 

 about the cage : I looked in and saw some hundreds of larvte. I boxed 

 a large number and put some whitethorn leaves in. They are all 

 feeding up well on it and have now completed their second moult. I 

 wrote to my son, who is a very careful observer, and asked him what 

 these larvte were ; he at once replied giving me full details. Now it 

 was quite out of the question that any male moth had access to these 

 two females, as the cages are very carefully made and were kept in 

 the rooms the whole time. Is parthenogenesis at all common in 

 moths ? I may add that some years ago in India the same thing 

 happened to me. I at once wrote up to the Bombay Natural History 

 Society and was informed that it was not uncommon in the class of 

 moth that I referred to. I do not remember the exact genus of the 

 moth, but it was one very closely allied to the Lymantriidae. I would 

 be very grateful to anyone giving me any information on the subject. 

 I am absolutely certain of my facts. I can send larvas to anyone 

 who would like to have them for experimental purposes as I have 

 many more than I can deal with. I will when they emerge write 

 again giving more particulars if desired, but it struck me as being of 

 interest.— R. H. Rattray (Col.) ; 68, Dry Hill Park Road, Tonbridge, 

 Kent, June 9th, 1919. 



Notes on the Larva of the Protoparce convolvuli. — I found 

 eggs and larvte of this moth at Sheikh Othman, near Aden, in June 

 and July, 1917. Most of these were on a climbing plant with Heshy, 



