22 THE entomologist's recokd. 



from a typical ? , taken in Yorkshire ( S' parent unknown) , and among 

 them were two or three specimens of rotundaria, so that I consider it 

 merely an aberration and not entitled to specific rank. — T. Maddison, 

 F.E.S., South Bailey, Durham. 



As bearing on the question of Cabera pnsaria ab. rotundaria, I may 

 say that one of my sons took in the New Forest, in 1892, an aberration 

 of C. e.vanthemaria, which runs somewhat parallel to the rotundaria 

 form of C. pmaria. The wings are rounder and more ample in pro- 

 portion to their length than in the type, and are divided into three 

 almost equal spaces by the strongly marked transverse lines. There is 

 no trace of a third line. The aberration is a striking one, because the 

 outer transverse line is deeply shaded and the inner one, which in the 

 forewings is also shaded but not so deeply, has a dark blotch in it 

 near the costa. — J. C. Moberly, M.A,, F.E.S., 9, Kockstone Place, 

 Southampton. 



Aberration of Zonosoma porata. — I captured this year, in Devon, 

 an aberrant Zonosoma porata, in which the transverse lines on both 

 fore- and hindwings form distinct broad fasciae, in which the white 

 spots stand out in bold relief. — B. A. Bower, F.E.S., Langiey, Eltham 

 Eoad, Lee, S.E. Octoler 14.th, 1899. 



:]g^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Lepidoptera from Surrey and Epping, 1899. — As I had never 

 tried the Dorking district, and had heard a good deal about the beauty 

 of the Surrey scenery, my father and I made several excursions there 

 during the past season. The country undoubtedly is lovely, but we 

 were disappointed in the insects, the best part we visited being round 

 Friday Street, which is, to my mind, the most picturesque piece of country 

 as well, with its miniature lake and pine clad hills round, and a few 

 old-fashioned cottages about, but as it is situated about four miles from 

 any railway station it can scarcely be termed convenient. Our first 

 expedition was April 19th, to Boxhill for a few hours, but a few Orrhodia 

 vaccina, at treacle, were the only insects seen. Four days later we 

 worked from Gomshall to Dorking, via Deer Leap Wood and Evershed's 

 Eough, but only obtained a few larvffi of Rumia luteolata, Cidaria russata 

 and Larentia didijmata, the two last by sweeping the bilberry [Vacciyiium 

 myrtillus) which grows in the utmost profusion, and later on in the 

 season at a considerable height, in Deer Leap Wood. May 14th we 

 spent the whole day working from Dorking, via Friday Street and 

 Abinger to Gomshall. The day was warm but dull, and rain came on 

 about 4.0 p.m. By beating the junipers which abound near Friday 

 Street a large number of Eupithecia sobrinata larvae was obtained ; 

 they varied much, but the green variety was much more numerous than 

 the brown. Larva3 of Nola cucuUatella, Viloha caeruleocepliala, 2\letro- 

 campa margaritaria, Thera variata, Cheimatobia hrumata, Hypsipetes 

 elutata and Aliselia oxyacantiiae were beaten, whilst more Larentia 

 didymata were swept from bilberry. A few Pieris rapae were seen on 

 the wing, but Mclanippe subtristata and one Scotosia dubitata were the 

 only other imagines noticed. May 20th-22nd v^^as also spent at Dork- 

 ing. The additional larvae were Porthesia aurifhia, Boarmia repandata, 

 Pseudoterpona cytisaria (Gomshall), and Chedas spartictta (Gomshall), 

 the latter abundant, Oporabia dilutata, Hybernia defoliaria, Hypena 



