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NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Depressaria putridella in the Harwich District. — Many 

 years ago I used to notice towards the end of May and beginning of 

 June that the young plants of the very local hog's-fennel {Peucedanum 

 officinale), which is not uncommon in certain localities in this neigh- 

 bourhood, were infested by the larvae of some species of Depressaria, 

 but, not being very keen about the Tineinae, I did not pay much 

 attention to them, though I know it now and then occurred to me 

 that, as the plant was so local the chances were that these larvae 

 might also be something of a rarity ; and so the years rolled on until 

 1909, when Mr. Sich's record of the discovery of D. imtridella in 

 Kent made me think that the larvae I had noticed so often on hog's- 

 fennel and treated of so little account might probably be that species ; 

 and so the next year (1910), the larvse being as plentiful as usual, I 

 took some of them with their food-plant, and placed it in a wide- 

 mouthed bottle in a large flower-pot, with muslin hood over, and in 

 a few weeks bred a couple of dozen D. imtridella. — Gervase F. 

 Mathew ; Dovercourt, March 8th, 1912. 



CffiNONYMPHA TYPHON. — I shall be Very much obliged if any 

 collector can furnish me with two pairs of Irish GcBnonytn-pha typhon 

 in first-rate condition. They are required for figuring in a future 

 number of M. C. Oberthiir's ' Lepidopterologie Compar^e,' to which 

 I am contributing a short account of the British and Irish forms. 

 Also wanted " furthest north " Scots forms. I shall be pleased to 

 exchange. — H. Eowland-Brown ; Harrow Weald. 



Early Emergences. — Phigalia pedaria (pilosaria) on lamps in 

 suburbs, January 1st, 2nd, and 5th. A. flavicornis on palings at 

 Sutton Park, March 1st, and H. progemmaria (type and melanic), 

 March 5th. Out of three hundred bred pupge of Odontopera biden- 

 tata, although kept in cold room till January 1st, and since then 

 out of doors, forty-three (type and black forms) have emerged up to 

 date. The first one emerged December 22nd, eighteen in January, 

 nineteen in February. Thermometer in breeding-cage, 33° F. at 

 moment of emergence of several. Three pairings have been obtained, 

 and ova deposited. — W. Bowater ; Russell Road, Moseley, Birming- 

 ham, March 11th, 1912. 



Nyssia hispidaria in Norfolk. — I captured, on Wednesday, 

 February 14th, in Northrepps Woods, near Cromer, one male Nyssia 

 hispidaria resting on an oak-trunk by day. — A. C. Morris ; Roughton 

 Rectory, Norwich, February 23rd, 1912. 



Hesperia onopordi in the Pyrenees. — While staying at 

 Gavarnie last July I took a fine series of H. alveus, which was very 

 common there. A short time ago, when taking the specimens off 

 the setting-boards, I found among them three H. onopordi, all males, 

 and in perfect condition. Two were captured in the Val d'Ossue, 

 one on July 16th, the other on the 20th, the third coming from the 

 Val d'Astazou on the 14th. Mr. Rowland-Brown informs me that 



