18 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Genitalia of the British Noctuid^. — We have received 

 intimation that Mr. F. N. Pierce, F.E.S., is about to pubhsh a \york 

 under the above title. As practically the genitalia of all the British 

 species of Noctuidae have been examined by Mr. Pierce, and as 

 drawings of these will be given, the work should be indispensable to 

 entomologists. The cost of production will be considerable no doubt, 

 and the author, who proposes to issue the book at the low figure of 

 five shillings, will be glad to secure as large a number of subscribers 

 ^as possible. His address is The Elms, Dingle, Liverpool. 



CAPTURES AND FIELD REPORTS. 



Mamestea (Hadena) glauca and Aceonycta menyanthides in 

 Glamorgan. — While looking for MacrotJiylacia ruhi on May 22nd, 

 1907, on the hills between Merthyr and Aberdare, I came upon two 

 fine specimens of M. (H.) glauca sitting on a clump of heather. 

 Further searching on subsequent occasions produced a few more 

 specimens resting on an old wall which runs across the hill. In 

 May of this year several specimens of the insect were again taken in 

 the same place, and while searcliing for it on June 6th in another 

 locality on the same hill I found both it and several fine specimens of 

 A. menyanthides sitting on heaps of stones which are scattered over 

 the mountain side. Other specimens of the latter species were 

 observed at intervals up to June 20th, I am not aware that either 

 of these species has been taken previously in this district. — G. 

 Fleming ; 9, Fairview Terrace, Merthyr Tydfil. 



Larv^ of Cirehcedia xerampelina hatching in December. 

 — From some ova of G. xerampelina, which I had kept outdoors 

 under usual conditions, larvae hatched out on the 13th inst. Is not 

 this unusual, seeing that the ash-buds at present are very small and 

 apparently too hard for such young larvae to penetrate ? On 10th 

 inst. I took (here) a larva of Lasiocampa quercus ; it was unusually 

 active, and crawling across a sunny doorstep. — Herbert W. Baker ; 

 73, Limetree Place, Stowmarket, Suffolk, December 12th, 1908. 



PiERis BRASSic^ IN DECEMBER. — On December 16th I found a 

 number of larvae of P. brassicce feeding on cabbage in my garden here. 

 — W. Jarvis ; 22, Leicester Road, Lewes, Sussex. 



[Our correspondent kindly sent half a dozen of these larvae, one or 

 two of which were then nearly full grown, and have since pupated. 

 It will be remembered that Mr. Frohawk (Entom. xli. 39) recorded 

 three larvae of P. brassica at Rayleigh, Essex, on January 4th, 1908.] 



PiERis RAP^ in December. — I have an evidently fresh specimen 

 of P. rapa, which was captured on December 10th of this year. 

 This seems to be a most extraordinary time of year for this butterfly 

 to be on the wing, and I can only account for it by the fact that we 

 have had such a phenomenally mild autumn, though I have not 

 heard of other examples having been seen. I may add the butterfly 

 is still alive (December 15th, 1908). — Geoffrey Meade-Waldo; 

 Hever Warren, Hever, Kent. 



