306 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Leucania vitellina in Essex. — I have the pleasure to record that I 

 took a specimen of L. vitellina here at sugar on September 25th. As this 

 is not altogether an abundant species, it may be as well to note that on the 

 tree it looked very like a wasted Xanthia ferruginea. A more careful 

 inspection of pale X. ferruginea therefore might possibly result in more 

 L. vitellina. — (Rev.) W. Claxton, Navestock Vicarage, Romford. 



Catocala fraxini in Norfolk. — One example taken on the sand-hills 

 near Blakeney at the end of August. — [F, W. F.] 



Heliothis scutosa {Schiff.) in South Devon. — On September 4th, 

 whilst collecting with me in a clover-field near Dartmouth, my son, F. 

 Capel Haubury, captured a specimen of this extremely rare species. It flew 

 rapidly when disturbed, and then buzzed at the clover-heads like Plusia 

 gamma. The specimen is a male, but in poor condition. Mr. Eustace R. 

 Bankes, who was staying with us at the time, saw the specimen alive, and 

 concurred in the determination. — Frederick J. Hanbury ; Stainforth 

 House, Upper Clapton, N.E., September 24th, 1900. 



Cymatophora occularis at Chingford. — On May 27th I took a pupa 

 of this species under a poplar tree in my garden. The perfect insect 

 emergeii on May 31st. 1 should add that a friend of mine has also taken 

 this moth, once at sugar last year, and again this year at light, in this 

 locality. — S. Graham ; Chingford, Essex. 



Ennomos alniaria at BoGN0R.~In the course of a walk with my 

 brother-in-law, Mr. Graham Davis, he called my attention to a moth caught 

 in a spider's web on a gas-lamp in this town. On being captured and 

 examined, it proved to be E. alniaria. I find this species is recorded by 

 Mr. Alfred Lloyd in his list of the Lepidoptera of Bognor. Mr. W. H. B. 

 Fletcher also informs me that it is known to occur at Chichester, some six 

 miles from here as the crow flies. — R. Meldola ; Bognor, Sept. 23rd, 1900. 



Leucania vitellina and Plusia festuc^ at Bognor. — Since sending 

 the record of the capture of E. alniaria, I am able to add that, at sugar on 

 September 28th, I took two very good specimens of Leucania vitellina. 

 At Paghara, about the middle of the month, I saw at sugar, but unfor- 

 tunately lost, a fine specimen of Plusia festuca. Neither of these species 

 is recorded in the local list. — R. Meldola ; Bognor, Sept. 30th. 



PiERis DAPLiDicB, &c., AT BoGNOR. — Mr. H. L. F. Guermonprcz, the 

 well-known naturalist resident here, informs me that in many respects the 

 season has been remarkable. I saw on his setting-board a beautiful Pieris 

 daplidice, taken by him near Felpham on September 3rd. Colias hyale 

 has been fairly common, and also C. edusa and the larva of A. atropos. It 

 is noteworthy also that many species appear this year to have been made 

 double-brooded by the fine September succeeding the wet and cold August. 

 I took a good specimen of Agrotis exclamationis, for example, on September 

 21st, an unusually late date for this species. — R. Meldola; Bognor, 

 September 30th. 



Epunda nigra in Kent: a Correction. — In your last issue {ante, 

 p. 271) I recorded the capture of E. nigra here. I should like to correct 

 that statement. It was a mistake ; the insect I took I afterwards discovered 

 to be a very dark form of E. lutulenta. E. nigra has never been taken 

 here or near here, as far as I can gather. — A. J. Lawrance ; 8, Cross Roads, 

 Bromley Common, Kent, October 19th, 1900. 



