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pillars. Tn the Kelsall district there will be little fruit of any description, 

 the apple, pear, and gooseberry trees especially being affected. The 

 disappointment among market gardeners is all the keener, as there was a 

 magnificent show of bloom. A serious plague of caterpillars has broken 

 out in the rural districts around Southampton, doing immense damage to 

 the fruit crops, which in many cases are totally destroyed. 



[The above cutting, from a London weekly newspaper (May, 1890), 

 is inserted here as it may thus come under the notice of entomologists 

 residing in the districts mentioued, who will perhaps be good enough to 

 give us further particulars. — Ed.] 



Small example of Tephrosia biundularia. — I have never seen an 

 example of T. crepuscularia smaller than the one mentioned by Mr. T. B. 

 Jefferys (Entom. 204); but my friend Mr. George Rose, of Barnsley, took 

 a specimen of T. biundularia on a cottage window, near Barnsley, in June, 

 1887, that measures only half an inch from tip to tip. This insect was 

 given to Mr. C. S. Gregson by Mr. Rose, and an account of it appeared in 

 ' The Young Naturalist,' vol. viii., p. 181.— A. E. Hall ; Norbury, Sheffield. 



Saturnia pavonia (= carpini) Larva feeding on Oak. — I had a 

 pair of Saturnia pavonia emerge, and obtained about 150 eggs. Some 

 forty of these proved fertile. As I was unable to obtain heath for the 

 young larva? I gave them bramble and oak together, but they would only 

 eat the oak for the first fourteen days or so ; at the end of the first fortnight 

 they took to the bramble, and although I have offered them heath and oak 

 several times since they will not touch it, but stick to the bramble, the 

 flowers of which, when well open, they seem very partial to. The larvae, at 

 the present time about thirty in number, appear to have fed up very 

 equally and to be quite healthy. — Mark H. Winkley ; 9, Glen Eldon 

 Road, Coventry Park, Streatham, July 10, 1890. 



Acid alia rusticata in the North of London. — As this species 

 seems to be of very local occurrence, it may be of some interest to the 

 readers of ' The Entomologist ' to mention that I took a specimen on 

 Hampstead Heath in 1884. Unfortunately I was quite a beginner at the 

 time, and consequently the specimen is not in such good condition as one 

 could wish, being minus its abdomen : the wings, however, are not damaged 

 in any way. 1 am afraid I cannot give the date of capture, as in those 

 days I did not keep any regular diary. I see that Newman gives Darenth 

 Wood and the Isle of Portland as the only localities for the species, and 

 Stain ton mentions only the Isle of Portland and Northfleet. — Henry A. 

 Hill; 132, Haverstock Hill, London, N.W. 



Lepidoptera attracted by Light at Shepherd's Bush. — Although 

 this has been to me a somewhat blank season, yet I have taken, for the 

 first time in Shepherd's Bush, two good specimens of Amphidasys betularia, 

 which flew into my bedroom on June 2Gth, attracted by the gaslight. I have 

 also taken, through the same means, several specimens of EupUxia lucipara, 

 in June; Mamestra persicarice, commonly; Triphcenq pronuba, in July, 

 fresh and beautifully marked ; Melanippe Jluctuata ; Agrotis corticea, one 

 specimen ; and Acronycta aceiia, with well-defined black wing rays. I 

 might mention that the hedges in North Acton, near Twyford Abbey Lane, 

 were alive with Cam/ptogramma bilineata on Sunday evening, July 0th, 

 varying in shade from pale yellow to dark brown. — Chas. E. M. Ince ; 

 11, St. Stephen's Avenue, Shepherd's Bush, W. 



