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properly working, Tamocampa stabiUs, T. (jnthica, and Cerastis vaccinii 

 occurred. A few larvae of Cleora lichenaria were obtained in a beech- 

 wood. 



On March 13th I "hiked" to Lyndhurst, and found Brephos par- 

 thenias fairly common, but did not succeed in taking any. Vanessa 

 urticm, PhvjaUa pilosaria, aud Hyheniia marginaria were the only other 

 Lepidoptera seen. 



With April the spell of mild weather came to an end. I was 

 unable lo do much collecting at Salisbury, but took a good male 

 Amphidasys prodromaria from a street-lamp on the 1st, and subse- 

 quently saw one or two more. Pieris rapa- appeared on the 3rd ; and 

 other insects noticed were TcBniocampa stabilis, T. yothica, Phlogophora 

 meticulnsa (one at sallows), Hybernia inarginaria, Aniwpteryx (Bscularia, 

 and Diurnea fagella. Larvfe of Odonestis potatoria were found on the 

 18th, when a small Arctia caia was also seen. A larva of Lasiocampa 

 [Boinbyx) quercus was beaten from hawthorn. Oporabia dilutata larvas 

 were noticed, and Eupithecia sobrinatahesiten from juniper bushes on the 

 hills near Dean. Larvae-searching one evening, with an acetylene lamp, 

 showed up a few TripluBiia fimbria, a very large number of T. comes (?) 

 feeding on bramble, blackthorn, and almost anything, and Uropteryx 

 sambucaria. On the 4th I walked about four miles out of Salisbury to 

 see a friend, and found larvae of Sesia tipvlifurmis in the currant-bushes 

 in his garden. He showed me Plusia moneta which he captured in his 

 garden last year, and on searching DelplUmum there we found two 

 small larvae. I have since searched both monkshood and Ddpldniinn 

 in the garden here, and been rewarded by seven larvae found in the 

 heads of one plant of monkshood, and a few odd ones on Delphinium. 

 I also found four other larvae on Delphinium, in a garden at Northwood, 

 Middlesex, on April 30th, Some of the larvae spun up on May 13th, 

 but others were not half-grown at that time. 



We have, up to the present, had such bad weather in May that I 

 have only ventured out once, which was on May 15th, to Wilton. Two 

 very fine Lithusia sororcula (aureola) were on this occasion beaten from 

 birch, whilst continuous searching of tree-trunks only produced one 

 Tephtosia crepuscidada, two T. punctxdata, and one Panagra petraria. 

 Asthena candidata was beaten. Larvae noticed were Cheimatobia boreata 

 (abundant on birch), C. brumata, Oporabia dilutata, PhigaUa pilosaria, 

 and Ilypsipetes elututa. Melanippe liuctuata is the only other moth 

 noticed so far this month. 



Easter was spent in the New Forest with my father. The weather 

 got colder and colder until the last day of my stay (April 13th), when 

 we actually had a snowstorm. Butterflies were not much in evidence, 

 Gonepteryx rhamni being by far the commonest, with occasional examples 

 of Vajiessa polychlorus and V. urtica;. Pararge egeria was taken April 

 10th, and another seen two days later. A few Sarrothripus ujulnlatms 

 were taken. Is this moth double-brooded, or are the individuals seen 

 in the spring hybernated specimens ? I should be glad to know this, 

 as I cannot make out from the only book I have at hand, though their 

 condition suggested hybernation. After much searching, about a dozen 

 Boarmia cinctaria were found in different parts of the forest, five of 

 them being captured between the snow showers. A fine Lobophora 

 viretata was netted as it flew off a hoUy-trunki A short series of 



