16 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



The Season at Ilfracombe. — In common with many of your 

 contributors, my brother and I found this an exceedingly bad 

 season. At Ilfracombe we sugared four or five times, but were 

 only rewarded by a few Xylopliasia polyodon, while our efforts 

 during the day did not meet with much better success. Later in 

 the month (August), at Jersey, I was able to take a few Colias 

 edusa, but even there the insects were by no means plentiful. — 

 C. Dashwood Snell ; St. John's College, Oxford, Nov. 5, 1883. 



Lepidoptera at Cambridge. — My entomological researches 

 during the past year have been confined to the environs of the 

 town of Cambridge, and it is surprising what a long list of 

 Lepidoptera may be made out in the town itself and its immediate 

 neighbourhood. If it is so with all towns, as I suppose it is, what 

 a long article might be written on urban Entomology. I have 

 noticed among the Diurni, within a radius of two miles from the 

 centre of the town, Argynnis selene, Vanessa urticce, V. io, 

 V. polychloros, V. atalanta, V. cardui, one specimen of Apatura 

 iris (in 1868, but none since), Arge galathea, and four species of 

 the genus Satyrus. Colias edusa and Gonepteryx rhamni not only 

 fly in the suburban meadows and gardens, but along the streets in 

 the centre of the town. The same remark may be made respecting 

 Anthocharis cardamines and the genus Pieridce. Chortobius pam- 

 philus and Hesperia sylvanus may be seen just outside the town ; 

 and I used to see Papilio macliaon, but have missed it of late. I 

 noticed that the larvae of Pieris brassicce seemed this year much 

 less infected with Apanteles glomeratus than usual. Among the 

 Sphingidse I have met with Smerinthus ocellatus, S. p>°P u ^> 

 S. Mice, Acherontia atropos, Sphinx convolvuli, S. ligustri, Choero- 

 campa elpenor, and C. porcellus ; but all appeared this year in less 

 abundance than usual.— A. H. Waters; Willoughby House, Mill 

 Road, Cambridge. 



Abnormities in Lepidoptera. — It was with considerable 

 satisfaction that I read Mr. Harding's notes in the November 

 'Entomologist' (Entom. xvi. 257) on the above subject, and in 

 the hope that they may be of interest I append the following 

 notes. In 1877 I bred a male specimen of Bombyx callunce, 



