156 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
A very few Hupithecia succenturiata were bred this month, and a 
few were observed flying at dusk among the foodplant, but not 
captured ; it appears to be not uncommon locally judging from the 
abundance of the larve ; but these are terribly infested with parasites, 
the few (four) I bred, being the sole survivors of about two dozen fine 
larve taken in the autumn. In early August Stilbia anomala was 
numerous flying over the moors at dusk in one restricted locality and 
a little later Hydroecia crinanensis fairly swarmed at honey-dew on 
thistles, Cnicus palustris, near Killymoon, as many as twenty being 
observed on one thistle stem, but the thistle spikes played havoc with 
the scales and wings, consequently only about one in ten was in good 
order. Sue 
About the middle of the month Rumicia (Chrysophanus) phlaeas 
was in swarms in a flax field, attracted by the honey-dew on the flax 
stems, in fact the whole of ‘the little copper” population seemed to 
be congregated in that field, and although I was only able to examine 
the edges, I captured a nice lot of aberrations, the best being one partly 
ab. schmidtii and partly ab. intermedia, Tutt, several brassy. forms, 
examples with pear-shaped spots, and numerous abs. caeruleopunctata, 
Gerh. 
On August 23rd, a beautiful summer day, I went with “the 
Doctor” to see Sptranthes romanzoffiana which he had found on the 
shore at Lough Neagh; we found this rare orchid, which in Hurope is 
almost confined to the Lough area, abundant for some miles along the 
shore and growing only in boggy ground; Aglais urticae was very 
abundant at mint flowers and I took a nice variety with chalky-blue 
apex to forewings and the blue lunulets on hindwings obsolete. 
It was remarkable to observe on the shore that the vegetation 
growing in the sand was burnt up and dead whereas that growing in 
the bog was green and fresh. 
At ivy in the late autumn Xylina socia was abundant and Agrotis 
saucia put in a welcome appearance after an absence of some years ; 
other autumn species were rare or absent.—THomas Greer, Carglasson, 
Stewartstown, Co. Tyrone. 
GXURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 
A number of the parts of Seitz Lepidoptera are now obtainable from 
the English agents Messrs. Williams and Norgate. Seven parts are: 
of the Palearctic Geometrae, which is almost finished now; the com- 
pletion of the Palearctic Noctuae is also ready, and in addition some 
five parts of the Exotic portion. The price is now doubled, with an 
occasional double number. 
Signor Querci of Florence writes to say that he has been collecting 
for the last month in the Alpi Apuane (Carrara), N.W. Tuscany, and 
that his wife and daughter have spent two months on the coast 
ranges of Calabria and are shortly joining him in Tuscany. He says 
that the Alpi Apuane is “ the most interesting country I have ever 
met.” Dr. Verity proposes to do some collecting while on his visit to 
the Italian Tyrol. 
We hope to publish an account of the breeding of Phryaus livornica 
in the succeeding number from the pen of Mr. Hedges, who has 
obtained ova this spring from British-captured imagines. 
