52 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Middleton Dale (Euv. C. F. Thornewill). — S. luhricipeda. Common. 

 — S. mentliastri. Common. 



Hi'pialiis hiimuli. Common. — H. sylvanus. Fairly common south, 

 rarer north. — H. velleda. Common. — H. lupiiliims. Common 

 everywhere. — H. hectus. Common. 



Cossics ligniperda. Common. 



Zeuzera p!/rina, L., ccsculi, L. Frequent south. 



PortJiesia siinUis, F lies., = aunjiua, Fb. Common south. 



Leucoma salicis. Findern. 



Dasijchlra pxidibuuda. Fmdern (Rev. G. A. Smallwood). 



Orgijia antiqua. Common everywhere in the county. 



Trichiura cratmji. Not common. Willington. 



Pcecilocampa popull. Kepton. 



Eriogaster lanestris. Willington and Chellaston. 



Bonibyx rubi. Dovedale (E. Brown). Plentiful m Dovedale (J. T. 

 Harris). Reported from the moors (Rev. R. H. Fuller). — B. quercus. 

 Fairly common. Chellaston and Little Eaton. 



Odonestis potatoria. Common, 



Saturniu pavonia, h., = carpini, Schiff. Recorded by Mr. Hill. 



Drepana lacertinaria, 1j., = lacrrtidd, Schifi'. Recorded by Rev. G. A. 

 Smallwood. — D. falcataria, h.,=falculti, Schifi". Seal Wood. 



Cilix glaucata, Sco'p., = sp inula, Schiff. Common througbout tbe 

 county. 



Dicranuia bicuspis. Rare. Egginton (E. Brown). — D. furcula. 

 Repton and Barrow. — D. bifida. Fairly common in south-west. — 

 1). vinula. Common south ; unrecorded from Bakewell district but 

 common about Staveley. 



Fterostoma palpina. Seal Wood, Barrow, and Repton Shrubs. 



Loplioptenjx camelina. Common. 



Notodonta dicttea. Common everywhere. — .V. dictcEoides. Derby 

 and Breadsall. — A^. dromedarius. Derby and Repton Shrubs. — N. 

 ziczac. Seal Wood, Repton, Derby, and Barrow. — N. chnonia. 

 Repton Shrubs (G. Baker). — N. dodonea. Seal Wood (E. Brown). 

 Repton Shrubs (G. Baker). 



I'halera bucephala. Common in the south. 



Tlujatira derasa. Fairly common south. — T. batis. Fairly fre- 

 quent everywhere. 



Asphalia diluta. Ingleby. — A. fiavicornis. Moderately common 

 everywhere. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Jumping Beans and Jumping Eggs. — There is a remarkable analogy 

 between the " Jumping Beans " which have suddenly sprung into 

 notoriety, and the " Jumping Eggs " of Table Mountain, Cape Town. 

 The latter curiously-animated objects are the production of an insect, 

 and the saltatory action is similarly produced by the activity of the en* 

 closed embryo. These eggs are perfectly oval, white, and about the 

 size of a small sugar-plum, or the printed o's in "Our Notebook," 



