38 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
July 28rd.—The Stag-Beetle (Lucanus cervus) in my garden. I 
frequently saw specimens (mostly females) in Hazlewell Road and the 
roads near by during July. 
August 24th.—I captured a fine specimen of the House Cricket 
(Gryllus domesticus) in a coal bin. This bin is not warm, as it is out 
in the yard, not near the kitchen. It is the first time I have seen a 
Cricket alive for over forty years. It used to occur behind the 
wainscotting in the large old-fashioned kitchen in my father’s house 
at Earls Shilton in Leicestershire. 
September 7th.—Longitarsus jlavicornis was in abundance on 
Convolvulus in @ voad near here: the plants, which were growing beside 
a fence near some waste ground, being riddled with holes. The ab. 
fumigatus occurred sparingly.- Fowler gives the foodplant as Eupa- 
torium ; but in the supplement we give Convolvulus, which is the proper 
foodplant of the beetle. 
September 18th.—The Red Admiral (Pyrameis ata was flying 
in the High Street. 
September 26th.—I noticed the little moth (Tortrix pronbana) 
in numbers hovering about a fence in Upper Park Fields. The 
time was 10.80 a.m., and the moths were evidently ‘“‘sembling,” as 
about 50 were fluttering over and settling on one board in the fence ; 
running up and down and flying off the board again. When I returned 
in half an hour’s time only a few specimens were to be seen, but always 
on the one board. Mr. Durrant tells me that this moth has only been 
in Britain for a few years, having been introduced from the 
Mediterranean coast lands. 
September 27th.—The Small Tortoiseshell (Vanessa urticae) flying 
in my garden. 
_ October 1st.—Captured some specimens of Hupterya melissae on a 
clump of garden sage in my front garden. This little frog-hopper, 
which is coloured exactly to match the leaves of the sage, has occurred 
all the summer in some numbers. Even to-day, December 12th, a few 
are present, in spite of the rain, snow, and frost we have had lately. 
Specimens taken on November 2nd and put in a bottle with a few sage 
leaves, laid eggs, or at any rate produced young, as very tiny larve 
were found in a day or so. I do not know if anything of the life 
history of the species is known, or not. 
November 19th.—Alewrodes lonicerae, Walker. A neighbour told 
me that a small white insect was destroying some honeysuckle in a 
cold conservatory and asked me to come and see it. I secured 
specimens and ran it down as a species of Aleurodes, in the Cambridge 
Natural History, The insects are breeding still (December) in spite of 
the very cold weather. The nymph does not show the segments and 
limbs of.the insect as is figured in the work referred to abavel Very 
little is known about these little creatures, and I had thought of 
breeding them and working ont the life-history. I found, however, 
that Mr. Laing of the British Museum wanted to do this, so I have 
turned them over to. him.—Horacr DonisrHorPE. 
ZYGHNA TRIFOLII AGAIN (ante vol. XXill., p. 28).—Last summer | 
spent a few weeks in the Malvern district and in my wanderings I came 
across an interesting colony of %. trifolii; the colony was interesting 
from its environment and its very close proximity to a large filipendulae 
area rather than from a varietal point of view. 
