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Nine larve of Geometra papilionaria were taken at Delamere, from which 
three males and one female were reared. The other larve were parasitized. 
In company with Mr. S. Gordon Smith, F.E.S., at Delamere, I saw an 
assemblage of sixty males of Macrothylacia rubi in 67 minutes. 
Records of Lepidoptera of the District by Mr. Patrick G. Nagle :— 
Polygonia c-album. Boundary Lane, Chester, 9th August, 1918. 
Argynnis aglaia. Saughall, July, 1918. 
Argynnis euphrosyne. Saughall, June, 1919. 
Notodonta ziczuc. Saughall, June, 1919. 
Cyaniris argiolus. Near Chester, May, 1919. 
Thanaos tages. Saughall, May and June, 1919. 
Macroglossa stellatarum. Saughall, July, 1919. 
Agrotis saucita. Chester, October, 1919. 
Brachionycha sphinx. Chester, November, 1919. 
Taeniocampa munda. Delamere, April, 1919. 
Calocampa exoleta. Chester, November, 1919. 
Plusia moneta. Chester, June, 1919. 
Plusia festucae. Chester, June, 1919. 
Hepialis sylvina. Saughall, July, 1919. 
It may be of interest to note that Plusia moneta, P. chrysitis, P. festucae, 
P. gamma, and Abrostola triplasia were all taken on the same night, 
while flying over a patch of Purple Dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum). 
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New Varieties or LeprpopteRA FROM CHESHIRE. 
In The Entomologist, vol. LII., 1918, the Curator, Mr. Alfred Newstead, 
and Mr. S. Gordon Smith, have published a joint paper on four new forms 
or varieties of moths, namely :—Boarmia biundularia form venosa, Newstead 
and Smith (see accompanying illustration, fig. 1); Biston strataria form 
ochrearia, Newstead and Smith; Crocallis elinguaria form  signatipennis, 
Newstead and Smith (fig. 2); and Wyssia zonaria, form ochracea, Newstead 
