80 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



On July 16th I had occasion to visit the woods around 

 Hailsham. It was an exceptionally fine afteraoon, and on entering 

 a ride in the woods, right down which the sun was shining with 

 its full force, I found Dryaspaphia and Limenitis sihylla flying in 

 profusion ; the ground was very slightly damp from a light 

 shower that had fallen the day before, and both species were 

 dividing their attentions between the bramble blossoms and the 

 damp ground, L. sibi/lla resting on the path so thickly in some 

 places that it was difficult to walk there without treading on them. 

 I had no net, but it was easy work to till what few pill-boxes I 

 had in my pocket with a sample of the two species picked up 

 from the path with my fingers; unfortunately they were all more 

 or less chipped. Here, too, Pieris napi was very common, but 

 they seemed to confine their attentions to the bramble blossoms ; 

 many Aphantopus hyperanthus were seen and Epinephele ianira 

 was abundant. 



September 18th was a brilliant morning, and on a walk along 

 the parade about 9 a.m. (G.M.T.) I noticed several specimens of 

 Tortrix pronuhana flitting about, sometimes singly, at others two 

 or three or half-a-dozen in a bunch, but on reaching a particularly 

 well-sheltered spot backed by an ivy-covered bit of wall perhaps 

 a hundred yards in length, and receiving the direct rays of the 

 morning sun, they were flying in the utmost profusion. There 

 were certainly hundreds of them on the wing at the time, and 

 the bright sunlight on their brilliant orange-coloured hind wings 

 as they pursued their curious zig-zag flight was a sight not easily 

 to be forgotten. They appeared to be all males, the females 

 having a much heavier and less jumpy flight. On passing the 

 same spot later in the morning not one was on the wing ; their 

 flight for the day was over. 



Eastbourne ; 



February, 1920. 



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FIVE NEW STEPHANID^ IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 

 By E. a. Elliott, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



Diastepkanus sidcatus, sp. nov. 



9 . Face irregularly rugose, vertex and occiput trans-striate, 

 with very distinct longitudinal sulcus, three stout curved carinas 

 between the posterior ocelli, temples smooth, posterior margin of 

 head bordered. Scape longer than cheeks, second flagellar joint 

 twice as long as first, third as long as first and second together. 

 Neck of pronotum finely trans-striate, semiannular smooth in front, 

 basally arcuately striate ; mesonotuni rugose, scutellum laterally 

 strongly punctate ; metanotum longitudinally carinate ; propleurae 

 smooth, mesopleurae finely trans-striate, apically punctate ; median 



