132 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
by Mr. Harding at Deal.” The truth is that I never bred one; 
I took one just out of pupa, which is of a yellow colour. 
An entomologist at Canterbury has sent out some specimens, 
which he has stated were taken by me. I have seen them, and 
they were never taken by me. ‘There appears to be a manu- 
factory at Canterbury for the produce of rare things. I may 
have taken in all some eighteen or twenty of P. orichalcea, seven 
of which were taken in one night. 
During another of my rambles to Deal I procured gali larve, 
and I also fell in with a small brown moth in large numbers; that 
was Acidalia ochrata. 
One stormy Saturday I was at Darenth Wood. At dusk I 
took seven Xylomiges conspicillaris, one of which laid several 
eggs; but what to feed the young larve on I did not know. Ina 
book it said, ‘‘ feed on vetch,” but I could not get them to feed on 
anything else but blackthorn, which they took readily to; and I 
succeeded in breeding fifteen fine ones. A strange habit I noticed 
in the larve was this, that if I opened a door in the room where 
they were they would all fall down and lay among the dead 
leaves for an hour before they would take to their food again. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 
NoTes oN THE SEASON oF 1882 In Co. Stigo.—My expe- 
rience of the season of 1882, having been a bad one, agrees with 
that of most of your other correspondents. I have not, however, 
to record the absence of any usually occurring species, but the 
great scarcity of many generally the most abundant. This was 
more observable in the Diurni and Nocturni than in the other 
orders. Pieris brassice, for instance, was quite scarce, though the 
larvee were very numerous in 1881; whilst of Anthocharis carda- 
mines, remarkably abundant in this neighbourhood, three only 
were seen. Lycena alsus, again, was almost as scarce; on the 
other hand, Argynnis paphia and Chortobius davus were, if any- 
thing, more abundant than usual. The following is the list of all 
my captures. ‘The dates are arranged according to the month in 
which each species was first met with. In February, Larentia 
multistrigaria only. March, Phigalia pilosaria, Anticlea badiata, 
Eupithecia pumilata, Teniocampa stabilis, T'’. gothica, and Ptero- 
phorus pterodactylus ; EH. pumilata was abundant, much more so 
“sa 
