34 the entomologist's record. 



the cases were all at rest on unmined parts of the leaves. I think the 

 larvae were then undergoing their first ecdysis. The larva? continued 

 to mine small spaces in the leaves, not eating the surface of the leaf 

 as they do after hibernation. In the middle of September I set them 

 free on a birch in the garden. I have only come across one reference 

 to this method of case construction, it occurs in a paper by Dr. 

 Ottmar Hofmann, who states that he saw the larvae of C. musculella 

 and 0. saponariella commencing their cases by forming a cone of white 

 silk outside the mine, and he suggests C. vitisella, the species of 

 which he is writing, has a similar habit. (Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1869, p. 

 113). The first two species he mentions, as above, make silken cases, 

 but not of the pistol shape adopted by ibipennella and its allies. — 

 Alfred Sich, Chiswick. 



JJ^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Larva found in a Barrel of Canadian Apples. — On November 

 17th a friend of mine who keeps a greengrocer's shop, brought me a 

 living larva of what appears to be one of the tiger-moth family. He 

 had found it in a barrel of Canadian apples. It was rolled up in a 

 ring and appeared sluggish, but when I brought it into the warm 

 house it appeared to revive and began to walk round tbe zinc larva 

 box in which I had placed it, I pat in several sorts of low growing 

 plants, but it did not seem to take any notice of them ; I also put in a 

 slice of apple on which it at once got and appeared to imbibe the juice 

 from the fresh cut surface. The larva is about If inch, and much 

 like A. caja larva in appearance, but is rather differently coloured. 

 The first two-fifths is coloured black, including the head, the next two- 

 fifths is chestnut coloured and the last fifth is also black, it looks a 

 regular " black and tan." The hair is not so long and sleek as that of 

 A. caja. It is set on in tufts but close together, like the hair in 

 a scrubbing brush, in fact it looks like a caja larva that has been to 

 the barber and had its hair cut. I expect it will hibernate, but I hope 

 to get it through to the imago, so that the species can be determined. 

 — William Daws, 39, Wood Street, Mansfield, Notts. 



[The species is probably Pynharcticus Isabella, a common species 

 in Canada and the United States. It hibernates in the larval stage 

 under logs or loose bark, and after brief activity in spring pupates 

 in a frail cocoon. It feeds on low bushes, blackberry, raspberry, 

 etc.— Hy.J.T.] . 



Records. — I see that in July, 1918, Mr. Donisthorpe gives the 

 aberrations of Goccinella 11 -punctata, but gives no British locality for 

 ab. tamaricis, Weise. On referring to my series I find two specimens 

 which come under this head, and it might therefore be worth 

 recording them. Both were taken at Gullane (1) on May 27th, 1915, 

 and (2) on November 10th, 1905, the latter with large spots, and 

 would have taken little to convert it into ab. boreolitoralis. 



I'ararge aegeria race egerides is pretty generally distributed in 

 Somerset, but I have never seen it in such great numbers as I have 

 seen /'. megera. The specimens were notably large, one female 

 measuring 28-25 mm. from the centre of the thorax to the tip of the 

 wing, was taken at Weston-super-Mare on July 2nd, 1920. My 



