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on my table, they were back to back, and ran about both backwards and 

 forwards. I picked them up with a fine paint brush and placed them 

 in a small plaster nest, where they remained in cop, for a considerable 

 period. — H. Donisthorpe, 



:E':10TES on collecting, Etc. 



Eeappearance of Notodonta bicoloria. — I read in The Irish Natu- 

 ralist for October, p. 164, the account of the capture of a male speci- 

 men of Notodonta bicoloria in the Killarney locality, by my friend Mr. 

 L. H. Bonaparte Wyse, on the morning of June 7th last. There is a 

 further vindication, if such were needed, of the veracity of Peter 

 Bouchard — which has suffered much from suspicion in times past, but 

 was ably defended by Edwin Birchall in The Entomologist for January, 

 1867, pp. 192-253. By a somewhat curious coincidence I met Mr. 

 Bonaparte Wyse at Stevens' Sale Rooms, on the same day on which I 

 received the Irish magazine, and we discussed his capture in the 

 presence of one of Bouchard's ancient specimens. — C.R.N.B. 



Hydrcegia ckinanensis in Co. Tyrone. — Thanks to the Rev. C. R. 

 N. Burrows' kindly help, I am able to record this species as occurring 

 in this locality. Amongst a short though variable series sent to him 

 for identification, amounting in all to twenty-two insects, no less than 

 seventeen prove to be Hydroecia crinanensis, the remainder being 

 Hydroecia Incens. The former varying from a pale yellow through 

 various shades of red to a dark brown, with either a white or orange 

 reniform ; a series of four from the banks of a small stream flowing 

 into and close to Lough Neagh are almost of an unicolorous light 

 brown, the reniform being of the same colour as the rest of the wing ; 

 another red-brown form has both orbicular and reniform of a bright 

 orange colour. H. lucens, on the other hand, hereabouts seems to be 

 a comparatively unvariable species, being of some tone of red or 

 yellowish-red. — Thomas Greer, Stewartstown, Co. Tyrone. October 

 2ith, 1917. 



Some Field Notes from Netley, Hants, in 1917. — As this 

 locality appears to have been very little worked a few random notes 

 may be of interest. 



On June 5th full fed larvae of Ac/lais iirticae .were common. 



On June 15th full fed larvae of Eugonia polychloros were wandering 

 from elm trees in search of a site for pupation. 



On June 16th Platyptilia ochrodactyla (bertrami) were common in 

 several different places around. Arctia villica two specimens, Tri- 

 phaena prqnnba, Agrotis exclatuationis and A. segetitm, with the common 

 Caradrinids, were abundant at rhododendron flowers at dusk. 



On June 21st Dysstroma {Cidaria) truncata were common, two 

 colonies of Zygaena trifolii, about a mile apart, were fresh, and a full 

 fed larva of Porthesia siniilis was noticed. 



On June 24th Fyrameis atalanta was seen in good condition. 



On June 25th ColUx sparsata and Lobophora sea'alisata were com- 

 mon at dusk flying about the sallows in a marshy field. Crambus 

 2oascuellus and Alucita pentadactyla were abundant, as were Cabera 

 pusaria and C. exanthemaria. At privet blossom Caradrina alsines, C. 

 taraxaci, C. quadripunctata, Cainptogranuaa bilineata, C. pusaria, 

 Hypena proboscidalis, and some Eupitheciids were taken. 



