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Captures at Sugar in Yorkshire. — On June 7th, 1902, I liad 

 the good fortune to take Acronijcta alni, and on the same date this 

 year another good specimen was secured. Two days later, June 9th, 

 I again sugared in the same locaUty, and was successful in taking 

 three more good specimens, one of them strongly inclined to 

 melanism. I also took two A. leporina^nd missed another specimen 

 of the same species. Haclena thalassina, Euplexia lucipara, Xylo- 

 2)liasia rurea, and other common moths were very plentiful. I also 

 took several melanic varieties of A.psi and Agrotis segetum. Ajyamea 

 unanimis was also plentiful. — -Geo. Bunce ; 1, Johnston Street, 

 Wakefield, June 12th, 1910. 



Pachys (Amphidasys) betularia ab. doubledayaria in Essex. — 

 In the ' Entomologist ' for July, 1910, p. 204, the Eev. W. Claxton 

 announces the capture of a fine specimen of this form at Navestock, 

 on May 21st, and suggests it may be a record for Essex, but he is 

 nearer the mark when he further suggests that some of your readers 

 may know better than himself. Several years ago I put out an 

 ordinary bred female on an apple-tree in my garden, and was laot a 

 little surprised to find a black male paired with it the next morning. 

 Since then I have found similar pairings on trees hereabouts, and 

 have bred many fine black and intermediate forms. The specimens 

 obtained from wild larvae and pupae collected here are far finer than 

 any I have received from northern correspondents. In recent years 

 there has beeji such a demand for these larvae that I have had very few 

 left. This spring I had only three and these produced one ordinary 

 male and two large, intensely black females. This black form is so 

 frequently turning up here now that it appears to be gradually 

 superseding the light one. If I remember rightly, there is a record 

 by Paymaster-in-Chief Mathew, R.N., of the occurrence of double- 

 dayaria at Dovercourt, and I have an impression that it has oc- 

 curred to some of my other Essex friends elsewhere in the county. 

 One of my black females paired in iny garden with an ordinary male 

 this year, and I have now a good brood of the resulting larvae feeding 

 on iSalix viminalis. — W. H. Harwood ; 94, Station Road, Colchester, 

 July 4th, 1910. 



Pachys betularia var. doubledayaria (Lepidoptera). — On 

 May 31st last, in Kingston-on-Thames, I found on the pavement a 

 large female of the Peppered Moth. It was quite alive, but had 

 received a little damage. In greatest expanse from tip to tip of the 

 fore wings it measured 60 millim. — W. J. Lucas. 



SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society. — May 12th. — Mr. A. Sich, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the 

 chair. — Mr. Yonge exhibited a series of Mclitcea aurinia, taken at 

 Verney Junction about 1890, but apparently now it is extinct there. — 

 Mr. x\shdown, a specimen of AsphaUa flavicorni^, from Mickleham, 

 having a large dark blotch in the disc of the fore wings. — Mr. 



