NOTES ON COLLECTING. 247 



while to place the foregoing on record ; also to add that the lively 

 Triphaena janthina occurred about the ivy on the ash-trunks. — Ibid. 



NoTODONTA CHAONiA AND N. dodonyEA NEAR Croydon. — I havc bred 

 one Notodonta chaonia and three X. dodonaea from larvfe taken last year 

 at Farley, near Croydon. I also took the imago of the latter species 

 at rest on a tree-trunk this year. Is not this a new locality for A"". 

 chaonia ? perhaps also for the more common of the two species, N. 

 dodonaea? — C. B. Antram, Croydon. Anf/iist ISth, 1900. 



Forcing Callimorpha heea. — Following up my notes on the 

 " Forcing of Callimorpha hem " {ante., p. 130), April 7th, saw the last 

 of the larv« change into the pupal stage, the first imago appearing on 

 May 3rd. For about three weeks the perfect insects continued to 

 emerge in twos and threes per diem; quite 50 per cent., however, of 

 the pupfe failed to produce imagines, owing I am afraid to my having 

 kept them too dry, and there was also a fair number of cripples ; 20 

 per cent, were of the yellow aberration, and out of forty specimens only 

 two were of the intermediate form. — Ibid. 



Finding larv-e of Chcerocampa porcellus by lamplight. — On 

 July 31st, my friend Mr. E. Field and myself started at dusk to go to 

 the village of Cherryhinton to look for the larvae of Choerocampa 

 jwrcellus by lamplight. After a brisk walk we reached our destination, 

 and having lit our lamps we set to Avork upon the piles of Galium 

 rerum.. Some little time had been spent in a fruitless search, when 

 my friend found a larva of at least three inches in length, and after 

 that we kept on finding them at varying intervals, the majority 

 having brown skins, but a few with green ones. At eleven o'clock we 

 struck work, and on counting our captives we found the united take 

 of larvae to be forty C. porcellm, three 2Iacroi/lossa stellatarum and two 

 Antidea sinuata. — E. Crisp, 31 Union Eoad, Cambridge. 



Smeeinthus ocellatus and Cerura vinula two years in the pupal 

 STAGE. — Eeferring to Mr. Lane's note (ante., p. 217) on .Smerinthns ocel- 

 latm being two years in the pupal stage, I can instance a similar case. 

 On June 11th, 1898, I took eight eggs of S. ocellatus at Hythe, Kent, 

 which produced imagines in June 1899, except one, which remained 

 over the second winter in pupa and emerged on May 29th last, in fine 

 condition. A similar thing happened also with a specimen of Cerura 

 vinula which emerged early this spring from a pupa bred from an Qgg 

 found with others (which produced their imagines in due course in 

 1899), on the banks of the Thames at Barnes, on July 6th, 1898. — 

 H. AiNSLiE Hill, F.Z.S., F.E.S., 9, Addison Mansions, Kensington, 

 W. Awjust 1st, 1900. 



Deilephila livoenica IN THE IsLE OF Man. — Oil the evening of the 

 11th inst. a specimen of D. Uvornica Avas seen by Mr. William Garrett, 

 of Douglas, hovering over flowers of Silene maritima in the same 

 locality where several were seen and captured last year, as recorded 

 in the Ent. Record, vol. xi., p. 166. — H. Shoetridge Clarke, F.E.S., 

 Sulby Parsonage, Lezayre, Isle of Man. July 16th, 1900. 



Plusia iota on the wing during the day. — I noticed a number of 

 Plusia iota flying about in the garden to-day about 12 o'clock noon, 

 some of which I caught whilst hovering over flowers of blue lobelia 

 which are now in bloom. Is this usual ? The sun was shining 

 brightly at the time. I have frequently seen specimens of Plusia gamma 

 flying over flowers in the sunshine, but never P. iota. — Ibid, 



