﻿THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



Rhopalocera Britannica. — Messrs. John T. Carrington and F. W 

 Frohawk intimate that they are about to produce, under this title, a new 

 and carefully prepared monograph of the British butterflies, which will 

 be very fully illustrated by coloured and plain plates, giving life-histories of 

 every species drawn from living ova, larvae, pupae and imagines. The 

 authors state that they have already a large amount of material in hand, 

 but invite the assistance of the readers of the • Entomologist,' by requesting 

 loan of specimens for figuring, and local lists of species with notes. Further 

 particulars are to be duly announced. Communications should be addressed, 

 "John T. Carrington, ' Field' Office, Strand, London, W.C." 



Colias edusa in 1889. — Additional records of captures are : — 



Lancashire. — A good many specimens have been taken in this district 

 during August and September. — G. Pobmore ; Charney Hall, Grange- 

 over-Sands, October 25, 1889. 



Staffordshire. — Two specimens were noticed at Bar Hill, in the parish 

 of Madeley, by Mr. F. W. Dutton, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, when out 

 partridge-shooting in September. Mr. Dutton was formerly a collector, 

 and he therefore could not be mistaken. — (Rev.) Thos. W. Daltry ; 

 Madeley Vicarage, Staffs. 



Shropshire. — On the occasion of an excursion of the North Stafford- 

 shire Naturalists' Field Club and Archaeological Society to Hawkstone, 

 Lord Hill's seat in Salop, — on Sept. 12th, I saw a male specimen of G. 

 edusa, caught by a young man who was out with the Club, in the park at 

 Hawkstone. — (Rev.) Thos. W. Daltry ; Madeley Vicarage, Staffs. 



Hants. — Last season Colias eduui was fairly numerous at Gosport, Mr. 

 Larcon meeting with eight one day at Hillhead, and others were reported, 

 — also seen by myself, — from Stokes Bay and other places on the Solent. — 

 W. T. Pearce ; 111, High Street, Gosport. 



Devonshire. — During the second week in August my father took five 

 males and one female of this species, on a railway-bank at Dawlish, and 

 saw several others. — C. Nicholson; 202, Evering Road, Upper Clapton, 

 London, N.E. 



Epinephele tithonus var. — In August I caught eight specimens 

 of E. tithonus, seven females and one male, each having two additional eye- 

 spots on the upper wings. They are all more or less injured (vide Entom. 

 xxii. 306). I think they must be sought for earlier in the season. — M. 

 Craske ; Newacott, Bridgerule, Holsworthy, Devon, December 7, 1889. 



Acherontia atropos in 1889. — The following records of the occur- 

 rence of Acherontia atropos during last year, have been received : — 



Yorkshire. — At the close of the month of August, we met with a batch 

 of the larvae of the death's-head moth at Hornsea. They were feeding on 

 the so-called " tea-tree " (Lycium barbarum), one of the Solanaceae. We 

 got a dozen that were nearly full-fed. These were placed, with their food- 

 plant, under a garden bell-glass, where they continued to feed for a week 

 on the leaves of the tea-tree, the branches of which they soon stripped of 

 their foliage. Another change, and they gradually began to make their 

 way into the soil, burrowing down several inches, and forming an earthen 



