366 THE ENTOMOLOGIST, 



Second brood of Eurois prasina (Aplectaherbida). — Probably 

 due to the abnormally hot summer a second brood of A. herbida has 

 been emerging since September. The perfect insects I have found 

 in the larvae cage, containing at present half size and nearly full-fed 

 larvae, so that I anticipate further emergences. The dates of emer- 

 gences are September 18th and October 1st, 2nd, 5th, 8th, and 18th. 

 The young larvae were kindly given to me by Mr. Hugh Main, and 

 originate from Eastbourne. — R. T. Baumann. 



ToRTRix pronubana AT Westclifp-on-Sea, Essex. — The above 

 Tortrix has appeared here : I met with its larva when walking in 

 this disti-ict one day in mid-August. In passing a privet hedge I noticed 

 two or three of the leaves on the top of the hedge fastened together, 

 and on examining them I found what I thought were Tortrix larvae. 

 As I could not call to mind any Tortrix larva that w^ould be feeding 

 on privet at this time of the year, I thought they might be some- 

 thing out of the common, so I searched further on following days 

 and found altogether about twenty larvae and pupae. The first insect 

 was bred on September 9th, others following on succeeding days. I 

 had never previously seen the moth either alive or in any British 

 collection, so for a time I assumed it was possibly a new species to 

 this country, and that I was the fortunate discoverer. My dream 

 was, however, soon dispelled, as on looking through the back numbers 

 of the ' Entomologist,' I came across Mr. Adkin's very interesting 

 article {vide ' Entomologist,' vol. xxxix, p. 265) on his finding T. pro- 

 nuhana at Eastbourne, and after reading same and his full description 

 of the imago, I found that my captures were referable to this species. 

 As I have not seen any mention of the previous capture of T. ^no- 

 nuhana in Essex, this may be the first record for the county. I have 

 now (September 20th) found this insect in three separate places in 

 Westcliff, but they are of small extent, two of them being private 

 gardens. In one locality, three larvae and one imago occurred on 

 Euonymus ; in the other localities privet was the food of the larva. — 

 G. H. Conquest ; 10, Meteor Eoad, Westcliff-on-Sea. 



Leucania unipuncta (Haworth) extranea (Guenee) in Devon- 

 shire. — On September 20th I was fortunate in taking a fine female 

 specimen of this insect at sugar on the Devonshire coast. Ova were 

 not obtained, although the moth was not killed for two days. The 

 species appears to be very sluggish when boxed and to show but little 

 inclination to move, although on the " sugar " it was by no means 

 easy to captui-e. — (Dr.) Beckwith Whitehouse ; 52, Newhall Street, 

 Birmingham. 



Caradrina exigua in Devonshire. — Between September 11th and 

 28th I took five fine examples of this insect at sugar. With one 

 exception all were captured between ten and eleven o'clock and after 

 a heavy fall of rain. It appeared probable that the latter had driven 

 this rather sluggish insect from its resting places in the long tufts of 

 grass. Ova were obtained from a female captured on September 11th, 

 and the larvae hatched between the 20th and 22nd. At the time of 

 writing (October 9th) they are in the third " instar," and feeding 

 rapidly upon dock. Previous to the second moult, the larvae are 



