40 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Pyeameis in January. — I saw a fresh-looking specimen of 

 Pyrameis atalanta flying in the sunshine in a sheltered hollow at 

 Brook, Isle of Wight, on January 7th last. — Orfobd Young, M.D. ; 

 Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, January 10th, 1909. 



Eably Appearance op Hybernia rupicaprabia. — On 4th inst. 

 several male specimens of this species w'ere at rest on an electric 

 illuminated window here. — Heebert W. Baker ; 73, Limetree Place, 

 Stowmarket, Suffolk, January 6th, 1909. 



Erratum. — In January number, page 18, line 16 from bottom, for 

 "December 12th " read "December 17th." 



T^niocampa gothica in June and October. — I should like to 

 record having taken a somewhat worn specimen of T. gothica on the 

 fiow-ers of Budleia globosa on June 12th, 1908, and a very perfect 

 specimen at ivy bloom on October 15th. I also captured a good 

 specimen of Acronycta psi at sugar on the evening of September 6th. 

 — (Miss) B. Coney ; Pucklechurch, Glos. 



PiERis NAPi, var. — Last May I had a very large number of 

 hrassiccB, rapce, and napi, and among the more or less interesting 

 forms that appeared were a fine male napi with the basal portion of 

 all fore wings conspicuously black. Mr. Eaynor — who was here 

 yesterday — strongly urged me to send you a note of its occurrence, 

 and thought it deserved a varietal name, so we decided to call it hasi- 

 nigra. A similar but somewhat inore pronounced form of hrassicce is 

 figured in Morris's ' British Butterflies,' having been copied from 

 ' The Zoologist,' p. 471. It was taken in a garden in Leicester in 

 1843. I have always been on the look-out for this form, but though 

 I have bred and captured many thousands of specimens, I never 

 met with anything approaching it previously. — W. H. Harwood ; 

 94, Station Eoad, Colchester, September 4th, 1908. 



Pteeophoeus monodactylus in Januaey. — On Esher Common, 

 January 2nd, I observed Pteropliorus monodactylus ; first, at rest 

 about two feet from the ground on oak palings above dead leaves and 

 behind brambles, and later on, high up on the trunk of a Scotch fir. 

 This capture may serve to confirm the belief that this moth hyber- 

 nates during the winter months, flying only at times in favourable 

 weather. — D. C. Holmes ; The Briars, Manor Eoad, Thames Ditton, 

 January 4th, 1909. 



[This species most certainly passes the winter in the moth 

 state, but, except perhaps during the coldest weather, it does not 

 seem to become absolutely dormant. It is often seen among the 

 latest insect visitors to ivy bloom and the earliest to the sallow 

 catkins. — Ed.] 



Hybebnia leucoph^abia on Januaey 8th. — On the oak-fence of 

 Esher Common I took to-day a male H. leucophcearia. It was a dark 

 nicely banded specimen, and seems worthy of record, the date being 

 so very early. — D. C. Holmes. 



Campodea staphylinus (Aptera). — In rotting stumps from which 

 trees have been cut down, I found to-day (January 8th, 1909) several 



