26 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Treatment of Pup^e during the Winter. — Some of us have found 

 it difficult to rear imagines from dug pupfe of Ampkida.vjft betularia, 

 and a few other species, as they are so apt to dry up. By putting 

 them in a small tin box, say a tobacco-box, with holes punched in it 

 top and bottom, and burying it a few inches deep in the ground out of 

 doors, I have obtained satisfactory results during the last two or three 

 years. I put a few dry leaves on the top of the box to keep the mould 

 from going through the holes into the box. — F. Milton ; 7, Chilton 

 Street, Bethnal Green, London, E. 



Macro-Lepidoptera in North Staffordshire in 1901. — The past 

 season has been a very productive one in North Staffordshire, a large 

 number of species having been taken that we had not met with before. 

 Our first captures for the year were Phigalia pilosaria, Hyhernia j^ro- 

 gemmaria, &c., and on March 31st one Cymatophora flaviconiis was 

 taken, and several more early in April, at rest on birch twigs. Other 

 species noticed during April were Anisopteri/x cescularia, Anticlea 

 badiata, Larentia muUistrigaiia, Trachea piniperda (abundantly on sallow 

 bloom, in company with Tceniocampa gotJdca), T. nibricosa, T. instabilis, 

 T. stabilis, T. cruda, &c. 



May : — Enchloe cardammes, Thecla nibi, Satnrnia carpini, Venilia 

 maculata (in the Manifold Valley, very common in Dovedale), Amphi- 

 dasys betularia (black var.), Tephroski crepuscularia, BupaJus piniaria, 

 Abraxas uhnata, Lomaspilis marginata, Emmelesia. affinitata (a few), 

 Hi/psipetcs ruberata, on the moors (the larvfe of this species we have 

 taken not uncommonly some years on sallow), H. implnviata, Scotosia 

 dubitata (one hybernated specimen). On the 28th two worn females 

 of Acrongcta vienyanthidis were taken on the moors, from one of which 

 we obtained a batch of ova, and were successful in rearing fifty or 

 sixty larvae on sallow. Hadena glnuca'w&s also fairly common. 



June : — Macroglossa stellatarum, Procris geryon (common locally in 

 Dovedale), Chelonia plantaginis (on the moors), Odontopera bidentata, 

 Asthena imlchraria (in the Manifold Valley near Dovedale), Eupisteria 

 heparata, Venusia cambricaria, Emmelesia alchemillata, Eupithecia veno- 

 sata (larvae of this pretty species were taken from SUene infiata planted 

 in the garden), Melanthia ocellata, M. albicillata, Melanippe tristata 

 (common, but local), M. galiata, Cidaria corylata, Acrongcta mega- 

 cephala, Miana fascmncula, Grammcsia trilinea (at light), Abrostola 

 urtica and A. triplasia (at flowers of rocket, and at light). 



July : — Epinephele ianira, Zygana JilipendulcE, Nudaria mnndana, 

 Liparis auriflua (at light), Uroptcryx sambucata, Larentia ccesiata, 

 Anaitis plagiata, Cidaria pyraliata, C. dotata (freely at light), Pliisia 

 interrogationis (a single specimen of this insect was taken, at rest, on a 

 wall, on the moors, on July 8th). 



August: — Vanessa urticcB (very common), V. io (this insect, which 

 we have not seen for several years, has been fairly common during 

 August), V. atalanta (not nearly so abundant as last year), Goncptcryx 

 rhamni (a hybernated specimen of this butterfly, which is rare in the 

 county, was seen in Dovedale on June 4th, also early in August, and 

 a specimen was taken in the Manifold Valley on the 21st), Halia 

 vauaria, Oporabia Jiligrammaria (a few on the moors at the end of the 

 month), Melanthia rubigitiata, Cidaria ribesiaria, C. testata, C. populata, 



