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lamps in Fareham. — Leslie H. Mosse Robinson ; 2, Margaret Villas, 

 Portchester, December 28th, 1910. 



Collecting at Kendal (Westmorland).— Continuing my notes 

 {vide Entom. vol. xliii. p. 252) on the season's work in the Kendal 

 neighbourhood, I am able to report considerable activity amongst our 

 local lepidopterists during the latter half of the year 1910, accom- 

 panied by the acquisition of a wider knowledge of the habits of many 

 species, and by the encouraging addition of one or two fresh names 

 to our list. For several reasons, but chiefly owing to the broken 

 state of the weather, collecting throughout July was of a more or less 

 desultory nature. Several expeditions were made between July 3rd 

 and 9th to some high-lying marshy ground in quest of Arcjynnis 

 selene, but the resulting captures were disappointing. Three journeys 

 for a total of nine specimens, and this in a haunt where it has been 

 found some years literally in hundreds. Larentia ccssiata, showing 

 considerable variation, was common in the same neighbourhood, 

 resting in the daytime on the boulders and rock-faces, sometimes a 

 dozen or more in one sheltered corner. Generally they were pretty 

 active and rose quickly at one's approach. Some were stalked till 

 they came to rest on the heather, and invariably these were found 

 to be quite fresh — the worn insects remaining on the rocks, more 

 reluctant to rise. Males of Phothedes captiuncula were taken freely 

 in early July resting on the flowers of ox-eye daisy. One specimen 

 was reported as early as June 17th. Females of Nemeophila russula 

 were still to be taken in good condition on July 17th, though males 

 of the same species had been netted fully a month earlier. On the 

 18th, fifteen very young larvae of Dicranura furcula were discovered 

 on sallow — all on the lower branches quite close to the ground. The 

 young larva sits on a silken pad in the centre of the upper side of 

 the leaf and is easily seen. In several cases the empty egg-shell was 

 observed on the imder side of the same leaf. On July 19th, my friend, 

 Mr. G. Holmes, reported taking some nice Apliantopus liyperanthus 

 and Argynnis aglaia, one of the latter being a small dark female. 

 July 27th saw two more Notodonta dictaoides in the pupa-cage, an 

 interval of eleven days having elapsed since the last emergence. 

 They vary in the depth of chocolate coloration on both thorax and 

 wings. I have one bred specimen, a male, quite grey and hoary. 

 On the night of the 27th two Nocttta dahlii turned up at sugar. 

 About this date Melanippe sociata began to appear, and my series 

 includes some with a very distinct and almost black median band, 

 strongly marked, as in M. galiata, and without the customary in- 

 definiteness of M. suhtristata. 



August 1st broke out fine and sunny, and we spent the morning 

 amongst Erehia cBthiops, which we found to be just "beginning. Only 

 one female was netted ; they are usually a good week later than the 

 males. This species varies greatly from year to year in the matter 

 of size. On August 2nd several good examples of Anaitis plagiata 

 were netted. Larvae of Phalera bucepJiala were very abundant in 

 early August — birch, sallow, oak, and lime being apparently the 

 favoured (?) trees. August 11th saw appearing in the pupa-cage 

 some fine imagines of Cirrhoedia xeravipelina, bred from larvae found 



