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to whitethorn has also been, I think, more abundant this year than 

 usual, or, one ought perhaps to say, is more abundant, as I believe 

 Peronea (Acalla) variegana, the species I allude to, hybernates in the 

 imago state. I have seen a great many sitting on whitethorn leaves 

 in the hedges in Chiswick and Brentford. The parti-coloured and 

 dark forms were equally common, but the browner variety was much 

 scarcer. — Alfred Sigh. 



Plusia moneta in North Lincolnshire. — I took a fresh speci- 

 men of Plusia moneta on July 18th, 1909, in a garden at Limber, in 

 North Lincolnshire. — E. A. Cockayne ; 16, Cambridge Square, W. 



Celastrina argiolus in Middlesex, &c. — In my previous note 

 [antea, p. 186) I mentioned the fact that I had never seen an autumn 

 example of this species here in all the years I have met with it 

 common or otherwise in the spring. Yesterday (i\.ugust 22nd), pre- 

 paratory to a big shower, the sky was clear, and I noticed a female 

 G. argiolus at rest on a flower-cluster of hydrangea; and a male 

 flying rapidly over the lawn. With regard to the Pierids, reported 

 by me as so common this year in Middlesex in May, and in Essex by 

 Mr. Frohawk {antea, p. 213), I may add that they are even more 

 abundant in this neighbourhood in the second generation, while on 

 August 21st, on the beautiful Chiltern Hills between Kimble and 

 Princes Eisboro', they were flying in hundreds, P. brassiccB un- 

 doubtedly predominating. A fresh and numerous brood of P. napi 

 was also much in evidence, while the scabious, thistles, and hawk- 

 w^eeds — this season in great luxuriance — were visited by the follow- 

 ing : — Pampliila comma, Thymelicus flavus (worn), Chnjsophanus 

 phlceas, Polyommatus corydon (males just emerging, very late), 

 P. alexis (one very fine female ab. = ccerulea-angulata, Tutt), P. 

 astrarche (fresh, very small), Gonopteryx rhamni (fine, just out), 

 Argynnis aglaia and A. adippe (both in rags), Vanessa io, Pyrameis 

 atalanta ; Epinephele jurtina ; Aphantopus hyperantkus (still in fair 

 condition), and Ccenonympha pamp)hilus ; all, except the " skippers " 

 and the " whites," under normal size. On the flower-heads Charceas 

 graminis was represented by single examples ; and on a windy, bleak 

 day in the middle of June I also observed, at the same spot, great 

 numbers of Adscita geryon on the helianthemum, and not a few 

 Parasemia plantaginis ; butterflies, however, being conspicuous by 

 their absence at that date. — H. Kowland-Brown ; Harrow Weald, 

 Middlesex. 



Phryxus (Deilephila) livornica at Exeter. — I wish to record 

 taking here, on July 27th, a dead male specimen of P. livornica, under 

 an electric light standard in High Street. It was in fairly good con- 

 dition.— F. Pope ; 11, Portland Street, Newtown, Exeter. 



Curious Place chosen by Triph^na pronuba for Ovipositing. 

 — I have frequently noticed batches of ova deposited on the tarred 

 stop-netting round our tennis-courts, but have never been able to 

 actually see what insect chose so unpromising a place for the 

 purpose. Piecently, however, I was fortunate enough to observe a 

 moth in the act of oviposition, and after allowing it to deposit about 



