282 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



CAPTURES AND FIELD EEPORTS. 



Extraordinary Abundance of, and Destruction by, the 

 Larv^ of Pieris brassiCxE. — One noticeable entomological feature 

 of the past autumn has been the extraordinary abundance of the 

 larvae of Pieris hrassicce, which have done an immense amount of 

 injury to cabbage and other cultivated plants of the Brassica genus 

 in fields and gardens. A farmer told me of an instance where six 

 acres of kale were completely destroyed by these caterpillars ; every 

 leaf had been devoured, the stalks alone remaining, which presented 

 a curious and melancholy spectacle. The larviB have committed 

 great havoc with the cabbages in our own gardens. — Joseph Ander- 

 son ; Chichester. 



Larva of Manduca atropos at Chichester. — A larva of Man- 

 duca atropos just on the point of pupating was brought to me on 

 September 16th. It was dug up with potatoes. The interference 

 was probably inopportune, and resulted in death before the last 

 ecdysis. This is the only instance of the occurrence of Manduca 

 atropos in any stage known to me this year in this locality. — Joseph 

 Anderson ; Chichester. 



Apatura iris and Vanessa antiopa in Essex. — A female speci- 

 men of Apatura iris was seen in this neighbourhood this summer by 

 a young collector, Mr. Webster. It had settled on the ground but a 

 short distance from him. As there is a good deal of oak and some 

 sallow in the vicinity, it is quite possible that this was a wild in- 

 dividual. Mr. P. I. Lathy informs me that he saw a specimen of 

 Vanessa antiopa at Broxboux'ne. Another individual of this species 

 was observed within the precincts of the Royal Small Arms Factory 

 at Enfield.— George Talbot ; 11, Palace Gardens, Enfield. 



A Few Insects from Braemar. — Dr. D. Sharp was kind enough 

 to give me a few insects which he took at Braemar in June of this 

 year. They were : — Neuroptera : Raphidia maculicolUs, two males 

 and two females, together with a female pupa. Plecoptera : Dicty- 

 opteryx mortoni, five males and a female ; Dictyopterygella recta, a 

 nymph almost certainly, and thi-ee imagines ; Ghloroperla grammatica, 

 one ; Tceniopteryx risi, two ; Nemoura variegata, a male and a female. 

 Trichoptera : Brachycentrus suhnuhilus, two. — W. J. Lucas. 



Notes on the Season. — I was able to spend the morning of 

 Saturday, August 7th last, one of the few really favourable collecting 

 days in the past season, in Folkestone Warren. Peronea aspersana 

 was flying among the Poterium ; Pyrausta anguinalis, Coleopliora 

 lixella, Lozopera dilucidana, L. francillana, and other species were 

 about. I think I saw more insects on this particular morning than I 

 had seen during a whole fortnight spent in Lincolnshire in the middle 

 of July, when the only interesting Lepidoptera noticed were Tapino- 

 stola elymi, at Mablethorpe, and a few Scoparia ulmella, near Wil- 

 loughby. — F. G. Whittle ; 7, Marine Avenue, Southend, October 9th. 



Abundance of Vanessa io. — In July, along the roads around 

 Sidmouth, the larvae of this insect were abundant on the nettles. I 

 could have taken hundreds. — A. H. G. Nethercot. 



