154 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
Beating dead gorse stems produced Phloeophthorus rhododactylus, 
Marsh, and its parasite Laemophloeus ater, Ol. ; Pityoyenes bidleutatus, 
Hbst., and Pityophthorus pubescens, Marsh (these two last species are 
usually found in fir). 
At Barton Mills the -Phloeophthorus and the Laemophloeus were 
abundant in dead broom stems, and nearly all the broom feeders were 
present in numbers: Tychius venustus, F.; Apion rufirostre, F. ; 
Gonioctena olivacea, Férst.; Bruchus loti, Pk.; and Micrambe villosa, 
Heer., in plenty; ete. 
A specimen of Vetropium gabrielli, Weise, was beaten off broom ; 
and Cveeliodes ruber, Marsh., off oak. This last insect, in my 
experience, is decidedly rare. In all the years that I have been 
collecting I have only taken four specimens.—H. DonistHorps. 
Some Leprpoptera FRoM Hast Tyrone in 1919.—A cold late 
spring following a fairly mild winter; the sallows were not in bloom 
until the middle of April; the usual spring Noctuae (with the exception 
of Taenivcampa munda) were all remarkably searce. 
On April 21st (a fine mild night) on the bogs near Tranmere, 
Lough Neagh, I did not see a single 7. opima at the bloom, although 
several were netted as they flew wildly round the lamp; these and a 
few reddish J’. gracilis were the total result of the trip. 
Among the birch scrub at Killymoon, Tvicopteryx (Lobophora) 
carpinata was much more abundant than usual at dusk. 
The last week of April came in warm and sunny, and from that 
date till the middle of August only a few passing showers fell, 
although the weather for days together was dull and stormy. 
In May Huchloé cardamines was more abundant than I ever 
remember and I was lucky to get some nice aberrations, including a 
pale yellow g¢ with the veins of posterior wings rayed with sulphur- 
yellow, almost a combination of abs. flava, Williams, and sulfwreo- 
venata, Keynes; although the colour perhaps is not quite as deep as 
the latter aberration ; a g with twin discoidals to the anterior wings ; 
several with the orange blotch suffused with dark scales and a band of 
dark scales along the eosta into the discoidal spot; a few examples 
with the marginal dots on anterior wings united to each other and to the 
apical blotch, producing the effect of a dark border to the outer edge of the 
wing. By the way, there is a mistake in my last notes (H’ntom. Record, 
vol. xxxi., page 72); in recording this aberration I wrote “ posterior ”’ 
wings ; what I intended to write was “ anterior,” thus entirely altering 
the meaning. 
Mr. H. B. Williams in the splendid paper on this species (Z7ans. 
London Natural History Society) describes this form, but gives no 
locality ; for this very distinct aberration I would _ propose the 
name maryinata. 
Nearly all the females are of the var. ochrea, Tutt, although a few 
in lividuals have only the discoidal area of hindwings yellow; and on 
May 22nd my ‘better half” brought to me a beautiful suffused 
specimen of the ab. radiata, Williams ; on the 27th I found a specimen 
streaked with orange on both forewings. The greater number of these 
aberrations were found at rest on Cardamine pratensis in the evening 
and on dull cloudy days. 
At the same time Pieris napi was also abundant and a number of 
nice banded females occurred as well as several pale yellow forms. 
