100 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
R#opatocera :—Pieris napi var. 2 bryoniae, Brenthis dia, Hveres 
argiades, and Nisoniades tages. 
Puants, Erc., Iv Brossom:—Of these I recognised 24 different 
species during March at Vicenza. 
Hymenoptera :—Bombus ligusticus, Osmia cornuta, Ophion obscura, 
and Bombus lapidarius. 
Dretera :—Fristalis tenax, Catabomba pyrastri, Brachypalpus vulgus, 
Chrysotoxum. italicum, and Nomada succincta. 
Nevroprpra :—Phryganea flavicornis (?), Phryganea grandis (?). 
Coteoprrra.—Carabus granulatus, Lema brunnea, Blaps similis, and 
Meloe proscarabaeus.—Lieut. Ki. B. Asupy, F.H.S. (To be continued.) 
A Breepineg Resutt.—The following occurrence illustrating the 
unexpected prizes which now and then crop up for entomologists may 
be of interest for your readers. 
On April 26th last I placed in a cardboard box, with lid partly cut 
away and the space very carefully covered with muslin, a larva of the 
common Arctia villica found that day. This larva duly spun up in 
about a week’s time, and a day or two ago showed signs of pupating. 
To-day (May 2nd) on going to inspect the box I found not only the 
pupa of villica, but also resting on the muslin cover inside the box a 
freshly emerged Alder Moth (Acronicta alni), a somewhat uncommon 
species. 
I am absolutely certain I placed no other larve or pup in the box 
than the villica, and it was obviously impossible for the alni to have 
crawled into the box. The box was on a shelf in the greenhouse. 
I have exhaustively searched the box and can find no trace of any 
empty pupa case, and the box contained nothing else than a little fine 
earth and a piece of cork attached to which is the cocoon and live pupa 
of the villica. 
I have never seen a larva of alni, nor have | heard of the moth 
being taken in this neighbourhood or ever come across a live speci- 
men of the perfect insect until to-day. 
Probably you will think this story ought to have been sent either 
to Messrs. Maskelyne and Cook, or to Mr. Vale Owen and not to a 
serious scientific entomological publication. The facts nevertheless 
remain.—B. Barnarp CrurksHank, Gosport, Hants. May 2nd, 1920. 
Tue Wicken Fen Funn, 1920.—It wonld seem hardly necessary 
to say more than to remind our readers that the Treasurer of this most 
useful fund, Mr. W. G. Sheldon, Youlgrave, South Croydon, is at the 
“receipt of custom,” and to ask all.to send him thei annual 
contributions at an early date, and to obtain further subscribers from 
their fellow entomologists. 
GXURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 
The Bolletino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria, Vol. 
xili., 1919, has just come to hand and contains investigations of the life 
histories of various insects of economic importance, including the genus 
Anastrepha (Dip.), the Ayaonini (Hym. Chal.), the Coccid (Sphaerole- 
canium prunastri) of the plum-tree, and that of the nut-tree (Hulecanium 
coryli), and a long article with many illustrations of an irruption of 
