230 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
the end ot August. For P. letus I was chiefly indebted to 
the keen sight of a kind friend, more accustomed to their 
rapid flight.—Batlershell Gill; 9, Cambridge Terrace, 
Regent's Park, September 13, 1875. 
Spilodes palealis at Brockley.—It may be interesting to 
some of the readers of the ‘ Entomologist’ to know that I took 
a specimen on the wing of Spilodes palealis on the railway- 
banks, near Brockley, New Cross, on the 4th of August. I 
believe this is the second capture of this insect there.— 
Arthur Bliss; 4, The Terrace, Ladywell, near Lewisham, 
August 20, 1875. 
Cosmia pyralina.—This species seems to be but poorly 
represented in most cabinets, the localities where it occurs 
being few and far between. It has, however, been known to 
occur pretty continuously in Monk’s Wood, near Huntingdon ; 
and being in this part of the country at the time of the 
insect’s appearance I determined to try for it. I was some- 
what unfortunate in not being able to get over before the 6th 
of August, and then only for a single night. Mr. Richardson, 
of Clare College, met me at the ‘White Hart,’ Alconbury, 
Weston, where we took up our quarters, though not so com- 
fortably as we could have wished. One wood we selected, 
from the group standing in Alconbury, Upton and Sawtry 
parishes, was that in Sawtry, St. Judith, which, though 
somewhat smaller than Monk’s Wood, has not been worked 
so much by entomologists. We sugared some sixty or 
seventy trees, almost without exception oaks. During the 
first round we took a couple of Cosmia pyralina on the 
fifteenth tree, from which we augured much future success. 
This longing, however, was not to be fulfilled; and the only 
other C. pyralina we got were two on one tree towards the 
end of our first round. We commenced a second round 
about half-past ten, but found insects so scarce that it took 
but little over half an hour. The other insects attracted by 
the sugar are scarcely worth mentioning: Noctua baja and 
Cosmia trapezina swarming everywhere, with a few Tryphena 
janthina, and single specimens of Tryphzna fimbria, Caradrina 
alsines, and Epunda viminalis. Three of the Cosmia pyra- 
lina taken were females, from which I infer that had we been 
a week or two earlier we should not have found the species so 
scarce.—Gilbert Raynor; St. John’s College, Cambridge, 
August 23, 1870. 
