Anthocharis cardamines, L., and A. euplienoides , Stgr., both on March 28t.h (1890). 

 Polyommatus Phlceas, L. (if I am not mistaken), I saw at the end of February, about 

 five or six years ago, in a sheltered locality to the north of the town of Nice. Ly- 

 ccBna Baton, Bgstr., has been found on March 26th (1890), a solitary <? ; the 5 s 

 usually appear about a fortnight later, as I have also noticed to be the case with 

 most species of Lepidoptera. As regards this latter, I have always taken it on Mont 

 Yinaigrier, near Nice, a locality, by the way, for Deilephila Niccea, Prun., Bomhyx 

 alpicola, Stgr. (a melanic form), and other good things ; also at St. Jean, where the 

 wild thyme {Thymus vulgaris) grows in unkempt luxuriance. — F. Bbomilow, Nice, 

 South France : March Uh, 1893. 



Folia nigrocincta in North Devon. — The larva of this species has been found in 

 some abundance in the Isle of Man, but British specimens of the moth are, we 

 believe, extremely rare, and have occurred only in Devon and Cornwall. On the 

 night of September 15th, 1890, we took two specimens (both females) at sugar in the 

 neighbourhood of Ilfracombe. Mr. C. Gr. Barrett, who has kindly examined one of 

 our captures, pronounces it to be rather more obscurely marked than his Isle of Man 

 specimens. — F. A. Dixey, Wadham College, Oxford, and G. B. Longstaff, High- 

 lands, Putney Heath, S.W. : February, 1893. 



Abraxas uhnata. — Thorpe Wood, near Worksop, is almost purely a beech wood, 

 but has here and there an elm and oak : uhnata swarms in this wood, and so do 

 naturally the larvae ; these always prefer the elm, and a hundred may be thrashed 

 off one branch of elm to a dozen from a whole tree of beech, in fact, the few elms 

 are literally eaten up, while it is difficult to find a beech touched. Personally I have 

 always associated ulmata with elm, as certainly in this neighbourhood it appears to 

 be its natural food.— A. E. Hall, Sheffield : March \1th, 1893. 



Abraxas ulmata. — Mr. Gardner speaks of elm as the ordinary food of Abraxas 

 ulmata. I was rather surprised, however, to see the note in the Magazine of this 

 month. All these years that I have been beating these great beech woods near me I 

 have never beaten larvae of ulmata from a beech tree ; I have never connected uhnata 

 with the beech further than that the beech wood is the natural home of the wych 

 elm. Through all these woods there is a general sprinkling of wych elm, with here 

 and there a spot where plenty of it grows : ulmata goes through the wood in the 

 same way — sprinkled sparingly till you come to where the elm grows in groups to- 

 gether ; here the moth is abundant at once, and both it and its larva may, in the 

 right season, be readily beaten from the elms. May not Mr. Nash have overlooked 

 these wych elms ? They are slender, weakly growing trees in the wood, easily 

 escaping notice among the towering beeches. It is only outside the wood that they 

 attain any size. Sometimes, in walking through the woods with others we have met 

 with ulmata. " Why, how comes it here?" my companions say, "there is no elm." 

 I have always, however, been able to find the wych elm near at hand to account 

 for it. Larv£e may be often seen despairingly searching for food when they are blown 

 down by the rough autumn winds. It is a common thing for numbers of Demas 

 coryli and Halias prasinana to be overtaken by the fall of the leaf before they have 

 finished feeding up, and so come to a bad end. — W. Holland, 111, Southampton 

 Street, Eeading : March, 1893. 



