238 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
other larvae were scarce with the exception of Ypsipetes ruberata. 
—KE. Y. Watson; The Ferns, Tivoli, Cheltenham, Aug. 30, 1883. 
AppirionAL Notrrs From Cuicurster.—On the 19th of July 
I took a beautiful specimen of Sesia bembeciformis (crabroniformis) 
in a ditch here. It had evidently only just emerged from the 
pupa, which I found a few yards from the spot where the moth 
was flying. It was placed among the roots of Polypodium vulgare, 
growing on Sallows (Salix caprea). My visitors to light have 
been Selenia illunaria, Cidaria prunaria, Cilia spinula, Calligenia 
miniata, Pyralhs fimbrialis, P. glaucinalis, Noctua rubi, &e A 
fine specimen of Sphinx convolvuli was captured in a shop in the 
town, and brought to me on Sept. 14th, and a larva of Acherontia 
atropos on the 17th, found in a garden. A single specimen 
of Colias edusa was seen flying in the garden, and Cynthia cardua 
has been somewhat abundant.—JosmrpH ANDERSON, jun.; Alie 
Villa, Chichester, Sussex. 
Scarcity oF LEPIDOPTERA IN QUEENSLAND.—Noticing some 
remarks in the ‘ Entomologist’ (Kntom. xvi. 238) on the causes 
of scarcity of Lepidoptera in England last season, it may be 
interesting to some of your readers to know that we have suffered 
a similar scarcity in this part of Queensland, viz., some eighty 
miles from Rockhampton. It appears to have been the same 
also in other parts, for a friend, writing from Brisbane, 400 miles 
further south, complains that he has not taken a single specimen 
of Lepidoptera this season. In the fall of the year 1882, viz., 
February, March, and April, our best collecting months, Lepi- 
doptera were unusually abundant: Pieris teutonia and Catopsilia 
pomona literally swarmed for a time, and for a few days they fell 
like snow in the streets of Rockhampton; Diadema bolina was 
nearly as numerous. The larve of the latter swarmed on their 
food-plant, Sidera retusa. Other species were also plentiful. <A 
mild open winter followed (we have, at times, as much as 6 to 10 
degrees of frost). Our dry season, from August to November, was 
very wet, very few species of Lepidoptera appearing. Coleoptera 
were very plentiful for a short time in December and January ; 
but after that insect-life was very scarce. ‘The months following, 
which should have been wet, were very dry, herbage and water 
were equally scant, and only an occasional butterfly was to 
be seen. The only Rhopalocera, which seemed to have escaped 
