134 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
30 species. Andaitis plagiata is amongst the commonest, Camptogramma 
bilineata has just appeared, and Venilia macularia is locally much in 
evidence. Of Xanthorhoé (Melanippe) fluctuata and X. (M.) sociata I 
have only seen two or three specimens, and of Opisthograptis (Rwmnia) 
luteolata only one.—(Lieut.) F. H. Wotnsy Don, (F.H.5) B.S.F._ 
May 10th, 1918. [Aporia crataegi has become common since I last 
wrote and I have seen Argynnis paphia.—F.H.W.D.] 
Frerp Nores From Batu, 1918.—After reading Mr. Sheldon’s 
excellent account of Peronea cristana in the Entomologist, | made some | 
attempts to find moths hibernating on the stems of hawthorn in hedges. — 
The game however is hardly worth the candle as I only succeeded in 
getting one moth, a quite good specimen of Acalla boscana var. 
scabrana, on January 24th, 1918. In the middle of March Xylina 
ornithopus and a white Tephrosia bistortata were seen at rest on larches 
at Conkwell. On the 18th Tinea pallescentella occurred in the house. 
Early in April I picked up a dead but little damaged Amphidasis 
strataria in Victoria Park. On the 23rd at Bathford the larve of 
Porrittia (Aciptilia) galactodactyla were busy making holes in the 
burdock leaves. Pammene argyrana on oaks, Lithocolletis corylifoliella 
on apple, and larve of Gracilaria tringipennella in mines on ribwort 
plantain were noted this month. A fine Acronicta alni emerged on 
May 4th, the produce of the larva found here last August. IJncurvaria 
muscalella was flying over hawthorn in Victoria Park. On the 8th I 
struck a colony of Laspeyresia perlepidana in a small hollow near a 
wood at Combe Down. Both males and females were flying briskly in © 
the afternoon sunshine. It occurs in many places round here but is © 
abundant in that hollow. Two days later, at Bathford, many things 
were on the wing, the only species seen and not mentioned in my notes 
of last year was Phragmatobia (Spilosoma) fuliyinosa. Ina lane near the 
town, on the 11th, I noticed a large bird’s dropping on a leaf of Viburnum 
Jantana and should have passed it by but the centre was curiously thin 
and extended. On exaniination it proved to be a pair of Cia 
glaucata in cop. Except parts of the tarsi of some of the legs no 
limbs were visible. Everything was tucked away beneath, even the 
heads. The dark grey thoraces furnished appropriate ends to the false 
dropping which appeared fresh and moist. Though I looked closely | 
and took a pencil sketch of them, neither moth made the slightest 
movement. Many species under similar conditions would move away, 
or even separate. In this lane I also saw Coleophora lineolea mining in 
the leaves of Stachys sylvatica. On May 14th, in a stone quarry, 1 
searched a patch of oxeye-daisy and found some circular cocoons on the 
upper sides of the leaves. All had a hole in them and contained a 
larval skin. They were the cocoonets made by the larva of Bucculatria 
nigricomella for the final larval moult. After more searching ten | 
proper cocoons were found. These were not spun on the daisy but on 
grass growing just outside the patch. They resemble the cocoons of 
B. cristatella but are I think longer. Nine of these have now produced 
the moths. I was fortunate in seeing the emergence of one specimen. 
It pushed the pupa case out of the cocoon, as far as I could judge, 
nearly half way, and then rather suddenly freed the head, thorax and 
the limbs, except the ends of the legs. It then rested and again with a 
sudden movement completed the exit. It retained the wings lying 
