300 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
August. These larve occurred on blackthorn in a very old hedge in 
Huntingdonshire, about two miles from the locality of the 1904 
specimen. The country round is typical of the greater portion of 
the county, and has little in common with fenland. Species found 
there are Zygena filipendule, Procris statices, Cymatophora octo- 
gesima, Xylophasia sublustris, Teniocampa opima, T. populetr, and 
once a single specimen of Dicycla oo. 
The following year, 1906, early in July, I also met with strzgosa, 
but in a fresh locality, some four miles to the north-east of Chatteris, 
and therefore well in the county of Cambridge. This specimen was 
on a sugared bramble flower, and the circumstances of the capture 
are firmly fixed in my memory as the insect fell from the flower into 
the middle of the bramble clump, which had to be cut away piece- 
meal before the moth was found under a dead leaf at the bottom. 
In 1907 the same locality produced a further specimen, a female 
from which I tried in vain to obtain eggs. The locality of these last 
two captures differs from those previously mentioned in being of a 
distinctly ‘“‘fenny” nature, for in it occur Leucania obsoleta, L. 
straminea, Senta ulve, and Cenobia rufa. There are, however, 
numerous old hawthorn bushes which doubtless form the food- 
plant of the Acronycta. Since 1907, owing to absence abroad and 
for other reasons, I have had no opportunities of observing strzgosa, 
but I have little doubt that a systematic search for either the imago 
or larva would be successful. From the comparatively large area over 
which my captures were made, and from the fact that I never 
specially sought the insect, I am inclined to think that it is widely 
distributed and not very scarce in this section of the county. It 
appears, however, to be a survivor of an ancient fauna inhabiting the 
islands in fenland and its borders, rather than a native of the true 
marshes. Among the latter Wicken Fen must be included, and there 
is, therefore, no reason to fear that the position of the species in this 
country will be prejudiced in any way by the clearing of small patches 
of scrub within the boundaries of the fen itself—J. C. F. Fryer, 
M.A., F.E.S. 
ForFICULA GIGANTEA.—While staying at Southbourne, near 
Bournemouth, recently, I was fortunate enough to find a female 
Forficula gigantea under stones at the foot of the cliffs. Although 
I spent the afternoon searching, this was the only specimen seen.— 
R. D. Goop; 48, High West Street, Dorchester, Dorset, October 8th, 
1914. 
NEMEOBIUS LUCINA EMERGING IN OctToBER.—A female of this 
species emerged to-day bred from ova collected at Oxford at the end 
of May. There has been no artificial heat in the room where the 
pup were kept. I see it is stated in ‘ Butterflies of the British 
Isles’ that this butterfly occasionally emerges in August and I have 
looked at my breeding-cage and cannot find any others. It was 
lucky that I was at home on leave from my camp.—F. W. J. JAcK- 
son ; Woodcote End House, Epson, October 18th, 1914. 
Couias EDUSA IN DorsETSHIRE.—During September I twice 
noticed C. edusa flying in the neighbourhood of this town.—R. D. 
Goov; 48, High West Street, Dorchester. 
