234 THE entobiolqgist's record. 



three, Triphaena proyiuha, Gonoptera libatriv one, Miana strigilis, 

 ■Apamea secalis (ociilea), Cymatophora duplaris three, Thyatira batis one, 

 Xylophada rarea, Leucania pallens, and Calymnia trapezina were taken 

 at sugar. 



On July 17th Porthesia similis, A, secaZis, and Geometra papilionaria 

 came to light. 



On July 21st P. siniilis was met with as imagines, ova and cocoons. 

 The larvie of Hipocrita jacobaeae were now full fed, and larvfe of 

 Apatela {Acronicta) aceris were found. 



On July 23rd light in the huts produced Hydroecia nictitans com- 

 mon, Pseudoterpna pruinata three, Eupithecia assimilata, E. oblongata, 

 Apamea secalis, Endotricha flammealis, Eurrhypara urticata, Platyptilia 

 ochrodactyla (bertravii), Leucania litharfiyria, and Dianthoecia cucubali. 

 On July 25th I found Xylopliasia lithoxylea on tree trunks, Bitkys 

 [Thecla) quercits, the three Pierids very common, Epinepliele tithonus 

 very common, Tephrosia crepuscnlaria, Polyouiiiiatns icarus very com- 

 mon, Ptychopoda [Acidalia) acersata, Crambas ivarringtonellus with C. 

 j)erlellus, which was the rarer, and C. cidmellns. 



On July 27th Cosmotriche potatoria, DiantJioecia cucubali, and 

 Boarmia yeiiiniaria came in to light. 



On July 28th' Miltochrista miniata came in the hut to light. 

 On July 31st I found Psilura monacha female on an oak trunk. 

 Note. — No colony of Zygaena filipendulae has yet, September 26th, 

 been noticed in the district, although Z. trifoUi were very common, 

 and a few Z. hippocrepidis among them. The dragonfly, Anax impera- 

 tor, occurs here fairly commonly. Ferns are noticeable for their 

 absence — a great contrast to the Isle of Wight and to the New Forest, 

 both within sight of our mess.^ [To be continued.] — G. S. Robertson 

 (M.D.), Officers' Quarters, Netley, Hants. 



Field Noteis from Bath and the Neighbourhood.— Though August 

 was a wet month it had some redeeming features from an entomo- 

 logical point of view. On the 2nd the tree trunks in Victoria Park 

 were all wet, but a small insect was seen on the mud, I cannot describe 

 the ground better, at the foot of a birch, when boxed it turned out to 

 be Argyresthia goe.dartella ab. literella. Very few specimens of this 

 aberration have been recorded. Maple abounds here in the hedges, 

 and there are also many trees in the fields and woods, but it was not 

 till this month I saw Croesia forskaleana and then less than a dozen 

 specimens. Some mines gathered off elm produced later Lithocolletis 

 schreberella, and I have seen here the other elm miner, L, tristrigella. 

 Is there any recognisable difference between the mines of these two 

 species ? About this time (Egoconia qnadripuncta was seen sitting on 

 a lime trunk, and only one, or two specimens of Cairina quercana 

 occurred in the hedges. Three larvje of Mimas {Snierinthus) tiliae 

 were seen, one crawling down the trunk of an alder, the second on a 

 lime trunk, and the third at the foot of an elm. The 4th was a 

 showery day, and I went into some woods near Bathampton. Verj'^ 

 little was aljout, but two Cerostoma sequella were found at rest on the 

 stem of a small maple, and a good specimen of Asthena blomeri was 

 observed, rather a late appearance. Searching tree trunks has not 

 yielded very much this year. I have seen two Boarmia repandata, one 

 Tricopteryx ' (Lobophora) viretata, and of course several XanthorJioe 

 (Melanippe) fiuctuata and B. gemmaria, besides a few Scoparia dnbitalis, 



