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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



beech. This species, in common with many others, was universally 

 plentiful in the Lichfield district. Two other records of the larva 

 will jje found in the report for the year of the North Staffs. Field 

 Club. — A. SopwiTH ; Chasetown, near Walsall, Staffs. 



Lrucania vitellina in Devonshire. — On September 7th I took 

 at suf^ar in my garden a fine specimen of L. vitellina. — E. H. Moore ; 

 Heathfield, Plymstock. 



Heliothis peltigera, etc., in South Hampshire. — During 

 August last, while searching restharrow at night in this district, I 

 had the good fortune to find larva; of H. 'peltiijcra not uncommonly, 

 in company with the usual Pyrrhia lonbra, Asjnlates ochrearia, etc. 

 Those that I collected duly pupated, and I hope to Ijreed the moths 

 shortly. — A. T. Postans ; 148, Fawcett Koad, Portsmouth. 



Catocala nupta, ab. — On August 31st I liad brougiit to me a 

 very remarkable var. of G. mipta. The fore wings are entirely black, 

 wifcb the exception of a thin, grey marginal line. Head and body jet 

 black ; hind wings normal, except that the red is a somewhat deeper 

 shade than is usual. I do not know if this variety has previously 

 been recorded, but it is new to me. The moth, a male, is one of a 

 batch bred this season. — F. Howard Lancum ; " Fernside," Shep- 

 herd's Lane, Dartford. 



Thamnonoma brunneata in Hertfordshire. — I have to record 

 the capture of Thmnnanoma hruvneata at light in the college grounds 

 at Bishop's Stortford on June 25th, 1920. There is no Vaccinium in 

 the district. I took imagines of D. irregularis and ^1. ruhiijiuata on 

 August 4th this year at Tuddenham. — C. Mellows ; The Yews, 

 Peterborough. 



A Eough Field in Thanet, August 20th. — Possibly a list of 

 species, especially Tortrices, taken tliis August in a rough, flowery 

 field near Broadstairs may be of interest to local collectors. Wild 

 carrot, ragwort, mugwort, milfoil, clover, teazle, etc., were the most 

 conspicuous of the wild flowers, with a very little Centaurea scabiosa. 

 The following species were common : E. diibitana, E. atricapitana, 

 E. erKjertina, D. acnviinatana, D. sim^Mciava, C.francillana, C nigro- 

 viaciilana, C. fimeaihmanniana, C. perletlus, A. gilvaria, E. ohlungata. 

 A few specimens occurred of L. rufillana, E. roseana, L. covipositella, 

 H. simiella, N. voctucUa, A. 2^)'oiiiiitaia, (J. clathrata, C. gevicnleus, 

 and one specimen each of L. palealis, P. zepJnjrana, H. biiueveUa 

 and //. ochroleuca. The last-named was, however, found freely on the 

 Centaurea in the neighbourhood, together with C. alternana. Outside 

 this particular field the most interesting of my captures were A. rusti- 

 cata, a T. virctata in Broadstairs itself, one specimen only of each, 

 some fine yellow aberrations of P. j^erla, and, on the sandhills at 

 Sandwich a good series of O. distans. — H. C. Hayward ; Eepton. 



Phl.edes crenana. — As it seems to be questioned whether this 

 species is double-brooded, it may be as well to put on record that on 

 September 11th and 13th I bred two from larva^ obtained in Eothie- 

 nmrchus Forest, Inverness-shire, in July last. Myrmccocella ochra- 



