54 THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 
I did- not see a single specimen of Colias edusa or Pyrameis cardut. 
(To be continued.)—C. W. Couturup. 
GXYURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 
A writer in the Globe a few weeks ago, writing on the topic ‘‘ Dig! 
Dig !! Dig!!!,” after eulogising the virtues of this now so necessary 
newly self-imposed task, turns to the fascination of discoveries to be 
made on the natural history side. After discussing the incidents 
connected with the spade dropping into a wasp’s nest from which a 
pair of garden mice scuttle out he proceeds as follows—‘‘ Then on you 
go and bring to light an uncommon butterfly paupa. A minute 
examination and a reference to a book tells you it 1s a paupa of the 
peacock butterfly. Then up come all sorts of grubs or catterpillars, 
uninteresting and harmful varieties, and what a feast the waiting robins 
have,” and so on to the “ battered penny ” and the digger ‘‘as pleased 
as Punch.” Our correspondent’s marginal note to the extract 
“ Evidently in forma pauperis”? no doubt is intended to be caustically 
personal. 
In the Naturalist for December still other Agrius convolvuli are 
reported to have turned up in the North. The advent of this and other 
large moths is often attended with remarkable incidents. Mr. W. J. 
Clarke says, “I was attending the funeral of an old friend at the 
cemetery, and an old lady in the company suddenly made a furious 
onslaught with her umbrella upon some object in the grass. Presently 
one of the grave-diggers went to her help, and assisted in hammering 
with his spade the object of her attentions. After the funeral was over 
I went to the spot to see what they had been killing, expecting to find 
a frog or a toad, but instead I found the battered remains of a Con- 
volvulus Hawk Moth. The grave-digger was standing by, and when I 
stooped to pick it up he hastily exclaimed, “ Deaen’t touch it, it’s a 
hoss-teng.” I had some difficulty in persuading the man that the 
object of his attentions was after all buta harmless moth.” Mr. Clark 
goes on to give an incident which is too good not to be repeated. “A 
Death’s Head Moth had flown upon the deck of a Scarborough fishing 
boat while out at sea. The crew viewed the intruder with great dread, 
and turned the hose on it, washing it into a corner, where, half dead, 
it was transfixed to the deck by a daring member of the crew, armed 
with a hammer and big wire nail. To make it additionally secure a 
fish box was turned over it, and so it arrived in port, where I saw it 
shortly afterwards, still alive in spite of its ill-usage.” 
SociETIES. 
Tar Sourn Lonpon EnromonocicaL anpD Naturat History Society. 
November 8th.—Deceasr oF a Mrmper.—The decease of a life- 
member, Mr. R. Standen (1873), was announced. 
Aperrations oF British Leucanupm.—Mr. Leeds exhibited forms 
and aberrations of various British Leucaniidae, ieluding Leucania 
impura, with ab. punctina, ete.; L. pallens, with ab. ectypa, ab. arcuata, 
ete.; L. phragmitidis, with ab. rufescens, ete.; Coenobia rufa; Tapt- 
nostola fulva; Nonagria geminipuncta, with ab. wnipuncta, ab. obsoleta, 
etc. ; N. dissoluta; N. brevilinea, with ab. sinelinea, ete. 
