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may call a “mingled” appearance. He also took two specimens of 
Taeniocampa munda, both light forms, one being an example of the ab. 
immaculata. 
His last visit to the Forest, up to the time of writing, was on April 
7th, with P. pedaria and A. aescularia still to be found in quantity, but 
again only one of the olive form of the former was met with. Six 
more 7’. crepuscularia (biundularia) were obtained, four males and two 
females, all of the dark delamerensis form. I have mostly taken them 
from the first week to well on in June.—W. Daws, Mansfield, Notts. 
| April 12th. 
Some Recorps or Leucanra vITELLINA IN West CornwaLu.—At the 
end of 1889 a friend sent me as a present a rather worn example of 
Leucania vitellina taken in §. Devon. He would not then give me 
name and exact place of capture, but promised to do so later. How- 
ever, he shortly afterwards passed over to the great majority without 
doing so. Previously, in the same year, I had been staying near 
Penzance and at sugar had secured an example of this species. Sub- 
sequently I have taken others and now furnish the dates of capture. 
All were taken at sugar in thesame locality. 1889, Sept. 20th; 1890, 
Sept. 26th and Sept. 30th; 1891, Sept. 20th ; 1893, Oct. Ist; 1894, 
Sept. 28th. Six specimens in all. I believe Sept. 20th, 1889, is the 
earliest date for the appearance of this species in Britain.—W. Daws, 
Mansfield, Notts. 
A Few Notes on tHE Season or 1917, marty In anp NwAR Mans- 
FIELD, Norrs.—I made my first entomological ramble in the middle 
of February. Only a few Cheimatophila hyemana (tortricella) were to 
be seen and no Hibernia leucophaearia. In the beginning of March I 
went over the same ground again. This time Phigalia pedaria (pilo- 
saria) was now out but scarce; I took one of the olive variety. Again 
I did not see a single H. lewcophaearia, in fact, in my favourite locality 
for this species I did not meet with even one specimen in the season 
of 1917. Alsophila aescularia, Hibernia rupicapraria and H. margin- 
aria (progemmaria) were all in fair numbers at this date, while 
C. hyemana (tortricella) and Diurnea fagella were both very abundant. 
I did not find any females of the above-mentioned species. Cheima- 
tobia brumata and C. boreata were to be taken up to well on in March, 
in fact, these two species must cover a flight period of about six 
months. 
On May 80th two “whites” in cop. rose from the garden path. I 
netted them and at once put them in the bottle. On turning them 
out I was surprised to find a male Pieris rapae and a female P. brassicae, 
and felt very vexed with myself for killing them without closer 
examination. As it was I set them and put them in my collection. 
About the 4th of April I took two Polyploca flavicornis on the trunks 
of birch trees. About this time I bred a rather small yellow variety 
of Pieris napi, one of a number that lay over from the summer brood 
of 1916. It was from Donegal parents. 
During the summer months I only took ordinary common species. 
From the middle of June to the first week in July Hupithecia coronata 
was to be taken on the trunks of the Sweet Chestnut in scores, while 
on beating the branches they came out in swarms. In point of num- 
