THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 1838 
captured six, and a friend one, without any difficulty ; they 
all seemed too much engrossed in the search for something to 
take much notice of our approach.—W. Jagger; St. Ives, 
Flunts. 
Argynnis Niobe near Canlerbury.—On the 29th of June [ 
had the good fortune to take a fine male of this beautiful 
insect, and to-day have succeeded in taking a second speci- 
men, which I believe must be a variety, it being without 
silver spots, but of a dull yellow colour. I believe I saw a 
third, but cannot speak with certainty, as Aglaia are so like 
them when on the wing. I have shown this last one alive 
to a collector here.-—G. Parry; Church Street, St. Paul's, 
Canterbury, July 6, 1875. 
[It is the variety Eris of Argynnis Niobe.— EZ. Newman.} 
Chaerocampa Elpenor, éc., at Sugar.—Last evening, June 
22nd, I obtained four specimens of Chcerocampa Elpenor at 
sugar; three were hovering at one tree, and taken by one 
sweep of the net. On one tree I counted seventy-three insects, 
all common species. I do not think I shall over-state it in 
saying that Agrotis corticea and A. exclamationis came by 
thousands, and Triphena pronuba by hundreds. I captured 
two fresh Xylocampa lithorhiza, which seems to give this 
insect a wide range, as I took it here in February. Can there 
be a second brood? The only good thing taken here this 
season was one specimen of Notodonta Chaonia. I should 
mention that I laid the sugar on early, and that the Chero- 
campa Elpenor were taken before I lighted up; the evening 
was close, and without a breath of wind.—[Rev.] A. C. 
Hervey; Butleigh Vicarage, Glastonbury Somerset. 
Anticlea sinuata.—On the 19th of June I had the pleasure 
of finding in one of my breeding-cages a beautiful female 
Anticlea sinuata. When I was away from home in East 
Kent, last August, 1 found a caterpillar on Galium verum, 
with which I was not acquainted; but on the appearance of 
the perfect insect a reference to ‘ British Moths’ connected 
the one with the other, and told me the caterpillar | had 
found was that of A. sinuata.—({Rev.| P. H. Jennings. 
Larva of Plerophorus rhododactylus.—On the 26th of May 
last the Rey. T. W. Daltry, of Madeley, and myself, took the 
larve of Pterophorus rhododactylus very freely in a wood in 
North Kent. We went in the hope of finding the larve of 
