182 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
me), a fair amount of success. Sugar was very unproductive, 
and a few Hadena rectilinea, Noctua conflua, and dark 
Cymatophora duplaris, were all that I got for my trouble in 
that line. On the hills, however, I got Psodos trepidaria, 
Larentia cesiata, Coremia munitata, Larentia salicata, 
Melanthia ocellata, Cidaria immanata, Scopula alpinalis, 
and many others. In the Black Wood, Fidonia pine- 
taria was not out, but Acidalia fumata, Boarmia repandata, 
and Larentia czsiata, were common, and there were many 
Tortrices out as well, which Dr. White worked very success- 
fully; but, as I had a fearful headache on the day we visited 
the wood, I must plead guilty to having been lazy on that 
occasion. Near Kinloch, Emmelesia blandiata and Lycena 
Artaxerxes were out, and Lycena Alexis was very con- 
spicuous on the banks. I also saw, near the end of my stay, 
July 12th, a hybernated specimen of Vanessa Urtice.—J. C. 
Wassermann ; Cullercoats. 
Apatura Iris (Entom. viii. 159).—This butterfly we occa- 
sionally see in a wood in this neighbourhood. I was away 
from home last year while the insect was out; but it was 
observed several times by my father, the late Mr. Thomas 
Bentall, feeding on dead moles, and he succeeded in capturing 
one specimen (a male) at this high-flavoured food. I have 
to-day bred a specimen (a female) from a larva beaten from 
sallow on the 5th of June, and which became a pupa on the 
1ith.—S. R. Bentall; Nightingale Hall, Halstead, Essea. 
Apatura Iris (Entom. viii. 159).—I may say that on 
July 15, 1857, in the Farnham district, | took nine males from 
oaks with a hoop-net tied to a long pole, one other male on 
the ground, and two females flying near the ground. I have 
reason therefore to say that on that occasion the pole was of 
much service.—Fi'ederic Walker. 
Apatura Iris (Entom. viii. 159).—I was interested in 
reading the note by Mr. Anderson concerning this species. 
My experience would go to prove that there are times when 
the insect adopts the same mode of flight as other butterflies. 
Last July (1874) was dry in the early part, at least here, and 
the wind rose generally at sunset, so that there was but little 
dew deposited ; and, sure enough, while this dry time lasted 
A. Iris flew low down, as if searching for the moisture it 
might otherwise expect to find on the leaves of oak, &c. I 
