14 THE ENTOxMOLOGISt's RECORD. 



Mr. Sabine tells me that he did not see a.nj H.7iictitans, H. paludis 

 or H. lucens in the locality where the larvae were found — Ballysodare, 

 Co. Sligo. Ireland is once more found to be a favourite home of this 

 species. Mr. Sabine promises, all being well, to obtain larvfe for de- 

 scription next season. This will be as it should be. Have the larv» 

 of H. nict items, H. lucens, and H. paludis ever been described? 



Mr. T. Greer, of Stewartstown, Co. Tyrone, writes me. He has 

 taken numbers of specimens. " U. crinaneusis must have some other 

 food-plant besides Iris ; as in many localities here this plant is 

 absent where the insect occurs. Coarse grass and thistles are there 

 in quantity and I surmise that it will be found to feed internally in 

 these plants also." — (Rev.) C. E. N. Burrows, Mucking, Essex. 



i5'>0TES ON COLLECTING, Etc, 



Field Notes from Bath. — On May 31st, 1918, the Rev, A. M. 

 Downes took me to one of his favourite localities, but it did not pro- 

 duce much in the way of Micros. He found Agriades thetis and Poly- 

 ommatus icarus common among the long grass, and took also Cupido 

 minimus, which was new to him in that locality. Early in June 

 Enarmonia [Semasia) woeberiana was emerging from pupfe from the 

 bark of an old Pyrus aucuparia in Victoria Park, and I took one very 

 dark 5 . On the 8th of this month Blastotere glahratella was still on 

 the wing at Bathford. (I have now been able to compare my speci- 

 mens and to identify them as this species.) The common Epinotia 

 (Catoptria) hypericana also occurred, though I did not see it last year, 

 the same may be said of Cacoecia [Cnepliasia) niusculana and Epiblema 

 (^Paedisca) hilunana. On the 18th Drepana falcataria was seen at rest 

 at Bathampton, and on the 15th three Bryophila perla were noted on 

 the walls. This seems an earlj^ date. On the 23rd, Acalla (Peronea) 

 logiana emerged, and another the next day, from pupte previously 

 gathered. The moths of the summer brood appear to be much less 

 numerous than those of the autumn brood. At the time I was glad to 

 take a few specimens of Ephestia calidella [ficella) at the grocer's shop, 

 and also to discover the headquarters of the (^ s of lortrix [Spliale- 

 roptera) longana in an old quarry. The ? s occurred in various places 

 but the $ s only in this one spot. They were resting on the taller bits 

 of the herbage, and were very quick on the wing when disturbed. From a 

 pupa spun up in the shoot of a Scot's pine I bred Evetria [Retinia) buoli- 

 ana, and from a pupa between ivy leaves the nearly black var. of Cacoecia 

 (Tortrix) podana ab. sauberiana. There is certainly a tendency 

 towards melanochroism among the Lepidoptera of this district. I 

 noticed one Lithocolletis cramerella nearly as dusky as those from the 

 North of England and Scotland, and have already mentioned several 

 dark specimens of other species that I met with. The tendency may 

 be due to the damper air of the west. I did not find moths so abun- 

 dant in 1917 as in the previous year, except perhaps Eucosma [Penthina) 

 variegana, which I think was more common. I spent some time 

 getting series of the common " Sciaphilas," which were abundant. 



The Phycitids mentioned (vol. xxix., p. 169) as rolling the leaves of 

 Turkey Oak into balls, produced the common Acrobasis (Ehodophaea) 

 consociella, and the larger species taken later was A. (R.) zelleri [tumi- 

 della). I also mentioned some saw-fly larv^ in a web on hawthorn, 



