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OcNERiA DisPAR AT Eastbournb. — Oil the evening of August 

 30th last, on my way home from the train, I captured a female 

 Ocneria dispar from the trunk of an elm-tree, where it was resting 

 in an apparently torpid condition. It is an unusually large 

 specimen, measuring 74 mm. from tip to tip of the wings, and is 

 somewhat greyer in colour than usual, possibly owing to the loss of 

 wing-scales, although the fringes are in fairly perfect condition. The 

 situation where it was taken is an unlikely one for the species to 

 have bred wild in the immediate neighbourhood, nor has the speci- 

 men the appearance of one that had been reared in captivity ; there 

 should, however, be no difficulty in this latter point being set at 

 rest. — Robert Adkin. 



CoLiAs EDUSA AT Eastbourne. — Although frequently over the 

 most likely spots in the neighbourhood of Eastbourne during the 

 months of August and September last, the only example of Colias 

 eclusa that came under my notice was a travel-stained male captured 

 by a friend on the morning of September 17th. The species cannot 

 have been common in Britain during the past autumn, but probably 

 some few specimens may have been noted, and it would be interest- 

 ing if all such cases were put on record, with particulars of date 

 when met with, and sex and condition of the specimens where 

 known. — Robert Adkin. 



Stauropus pagi. — As the " lobster moth " seems to be still of 

 unfrequent occurrence, it is perhaps worth while to record a male 

 taken by myself early in June last ; it was on a pane of my study 

 window, and perfectly quiet. In my present crippled condition I had 

 some difficulty in securing it, but first and last it never moved, and 

 had apparently never flown ; no bred specimen could be in finer 

 condition. The only perfect insect of this species I have ever before 

 taken here was a female, on the trunk of an oak many years ago ; 

 though from the year 1852 at various considerable intervals of 

 time up to now I have met with the larva, but never succeeded in 

 getting a perfect insect ; the result having always been that the 

 larva either died after changing to a chrysalis, or else produced 

 an " ichneumon." — O. Pickard-Cambridge ; Bloxworth Rectory, 

 November 17th, 1909. 



Abundance op the Larv^ of Pieris BRASSiCiE. — With reference 

 to Mr. Joseph Anderson's note {cintea, p. 282) on the extraordinary 

 abundance of the larvae of P. brassicce in the neighbourhood of 

 Chichester, I should like to record their equal abundance in this 

 district, for most of the plants of broccoli, Brussels sprouts, savoys, 

 &c., in the gardens about here present the same melancholy spectacle 

 of bare stalks, and the palings and walls adjacent are covered with 

 their chrysalids, and the yellow nests of cocoons of Apanteles glome- 

 ratus ; and there are still quantities of larvae to be seen on the plants, 

 or crawling about the walls looking for sheltered corners wherein to 

 pupate, notwithstanding the severe frosts, snow, and hail we have 

 experienced during the last week. I did not notice that the perfect 

 insects were in any way more numerous than usual at the end of 



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