20 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
of Hpione advenaria amongst young ash trees. Obtaining ova I 
successfully reared them on ash, which is, I presume, their food- 
plant in that locality. I failed to find larvee of C. lychnitis this year, 
although I left a goodly number the previous year to carry on the 
species. Possibly they are holding over for another year, as out of 
sixty pupze only one imago emerged this season. I always find that 
more than half the number stay a secohd year in the pupa state. 
Agrotis obscura (ravida) was formerly so plentiful here that I have 
captured more than 200 in a season, but for the past few years it has 
appeared very sparingly indeed, my captures being only two or three 
each season.—A. J. SprnteR; Chinnor. 
MARGARODES (GLYPHODES) UNIONALIS AND LEUCANIA VITELLINA IN 
SoutH Drvon.—I took two fine M. wnionalis at ivy in October. The 
first was taken on the 12th and the second the following night. Wet and 
windy weather followed and probably destroyed all chance of further 
captures of this species. Excepting a solitary Botys asinalis nothing 
of note was seen until October 22nd, when my father, Mr. E. J. 
Milman, called my attention to a Leucania vitellina feeding greedily 
at ivy. We had never before seen this usually skittish moth at ivy. 
Noctuze, with few exceptions, have been very scarce throughout the 
year, and many captured females have proved infertile.—P. e MinMAN; 
Cyprina, Lower Conway Road, Paignton, November 16th, 1920. 
BurtrerFruies IN SoutaH Cornwaun.—From August 14th to 
September 4th, 1920, I visited South Cornwall. The first week 
was spent at Penzance, the second and third at the Lizard. 
Although the weather was generally fine the temperature was low 
for the ‘district, and the prevailing winds were N. and N.E., so that 
conditions were not ideal for butterflies. The first capture was a 
fine specimen of P. cardui, secured with a pill-box (!) on the Land’s 
End. During my stay I took or noted nineteen species. Owing to 
the winds the sheltered valleys leading to the coves were the most 
favourable collecting-grounds. Two visits to the Try Valley, men- 
tioned by Mr. G. B. Kershaw in the ‘ Entomologist,’ 1912, proved 
unfortunate owing to bad weather, although the district looked very 
promising. A fine day on August 18th in the Lamorna Valle 
brought thirteen species on the. wing, many abundantly. At the 
Lizard I found the Caertilian Valley a favourable and handy locality. 
Here C. edusa had evidently bred; I saw altogether about a score 
and took four in perfect, fresh Condi Of the Pierids P. brassice 
was the common one everywhere, rape only scanty and napi few 
and worn. All showed the summer variation. P. megera and P. egeria 
swarmed in all parts visited, the former along the Cornish wall-hedges 
and the latter in more shady places as usual. I took a series of fresh 
Egerva egerides in a small wood at Lamorna, and found the light 
markings distinctly darker and more fulvous than in specimens I 
have taken elsewhere. JH. tzthonus abundant everywhere. A few 
C. pamphilus. EH. jurtina common but getting over. H. semele 
common locally at Mullion and elsewhere. P. atalanta: I never saw 
this species in such abundance. P.cardui also common and generally 
distributed. V.zo: A few here and there. I captured a few for inspec- 
tion and found none with the blue spot on the hind wing (ab. cyano- 
