296 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



CAPTURES AND FIELD REPORTS. 



Notes on Nyssia lapponaria. — During the past two seasons I have 

 been rather fortunate in finding nice long series of this rather local 

 species along the Struan Road on the way to Kinloch. The moths are 

 to be found in four different places along the road where bog-myrtle is 

 abundant. I have obtained them near Blair Atholl, also about two 

 hundred feet above tbe road on boggy parts of the hills, but I never 

 found tbem away from bog-myrtle, and this would go to prove that 

 this plant is the usual food of the larvse. Two weeks after I had 

 ceased collecting them, a young man in Kinloch started to look for 

 them, and he had got a fair lot. He did not say what he did with the 

 males ; but he had a box with about fifty females, which I gave him 

 two shillings for. I then put them down on new ground ; in fact, if 

 this species is not removed away from Struan Road it will be ruined, 

 as everyone about the place has come to know of it. A man put a 

 box of them into the river at Kinloch, and no doubt the moths will 

 be scarce on the Struan Road next year. Fortunately all the spots 

 for N. lapponaria in this district are not generally known. If I visit 

 the locality next season, I think it would not be wrong of me to take 

 all the females I can get on the Struan Road to safer ground, as it 

 would be a pity to have this local species destroyed. — L. G. Esson ; 

 383, George Street, Aberdeen. 



Lepidoptera on the Kentish Coast in 1907. — I made a short 

 visit to the Kentish coast in the vicinity of Deal on July 25th last, and 

 found Noctua3 in some numbers at sugar on the sand-hills ; this was 

 particularly the case with Xylophasia sublustris, of which species I 

 counted sixteen pu one sugared post, and over one hundred on my 

 first round. They were accompanied by Agrotis corticea, Miana literosa, 

 X. monoglypha (polyodon), and other common species. At the Echium 

 flowers I saw Agrotis vestigialis and tritici, and also secured a nice 

 series of Nyctegretes achatinella; the latter sitting quietly on the flowers 

 allowed themselves to be boxed without trouble. Lithosia luturella 

 (pygmaola) were flying somewhat freely for them, the evening being 

 warm, with only a slight breeze ; but having met with this insect in 

 plenty in the same locality in 1898, I did not work for them. On the 

 following day I explored the sand-hills for a considerable distance, and 

 was delighted at meeting with Acidalia ochrata for the first time alive. 

 A few were taken, and two worn females deposited ova freely. The 

 larvae emerged during the first week in August. I gave them Galium 

 verum flowers to begin with, and when these could no longer be 

 obtained, they took to the flowers of the golden-rod. a plant which 

 I had fortunately growing in the garden. A fair number of the 

 larva? are alive, and I hope to find them in the same condition after 

 hybernation. — G. H. Conquest; 10, Meteor Road, Westcliff-on- Sea, 

 October 29th, 1907. 



Acidalia strigilaria at Folkestone. — On July 24th, 1906, I had 

 the good fortune to capture in Folkestone Warren a single female 

 specimen of Acidalia strigilaria. She laid a few ova, and from these 

 I reared nine perfect imagos in July of this year. They were fed 



