﻿344 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



Plusia moneta in Britain. — It may be worth recording that on 1st 

 July last I captured at light, in a wood near here, a very fine specimen of 

 Plusia moneta. Messrs. Watkins and Doucaster identified it. I also 

 took a specimen of Acronycta alni in June, at sugar. — R. A. Dallas 

 Beeching; 24, St. James' Road, Tunbridge Wells, October 2, 1890. 



[Mr. C. G. Barrett, in the October number of another magazine, 

 to wit the ' Entomologist's Monthly,' has a most interesting note on 

 the occurrence of this species in England, in which he mentions the 

 capture of two other specimens. One of these it appears was taken on the 

 evening of 25th June last, by a schoolboy, as it was hovering over a flowering 

 plant of Delphinium in a garden at Dover. The other example was seen 

 on the night of 2nd July, flying around one of the gas-lamps at a railway 

 station near Reading, and was secured by Mr. W. Holland. It is, 

 perhaps, noteworthy that the last specimen referred to was taken at light 

 on the same evening that Mr. Christy found one in his illuminated moth- 

 trap (Entom. 254). At the last meeting of the London Entomological 

 Society, Mr. Kirby remarked that Plusia moneta had occurred in some 

 numbers in Holland. — Ed.] 



Plusia moneta. — With reference to the description of the larva 

 (Entom. 288), it is correct. I have preserved specimens in my collection. 

 Of this species there is a not uncommon variety of the imago in Amurlaud 

 (Siberia), in which the fore wings are shining silver-white, instead of the 

 golden grey in the type. I have specimens of both.— N. F. Dobree ; 

 Beverley, Yorks. 



Acronycta aceris in September. — I took a specimen of Acronycta 

 aceris at Enfield, on the evening of the 17th September last, at sugar. Is 

 not this a very late date for this species ? — H. D. Sykes ; " The Cedars," 

 Enfield, Middlesex, October 11, 1890. 



Heliothis armigera at Chatham. — On the 5th of last month, while 

 I was strolling about the waste ground at the extension works in Chatham 

 Dockyard, I disturbed a fine specimen of this moth, which fluttered up 

 from among some rank herbage at my feet, and settled again a few yards 

 off. Unfortunately, I had not a net with me, and my efforts to secure it in 

 my cap were unavailing, as it was too wary and active, and eventually took 

 a long flight, and I saw it no more. This is only the third example I have 

 met with in England during the many years I have been collecting. — 

 Gervase F. Mathew; H.M.S. 'Tyne,' Gibraltar, October 4, 1890. 



Varieties of Arctia caia. — Referring to Mr. W. T. Pearce's note 

 on Arctia caia (Entom. 291), I may mention that I have this year bred a 

 female specimen of A. caia with the usually white portion of the fore wings 

 suffused with a pale pinkish hue. I may add that I obtained the larva 

 (with others) from Walthamstow in the spring, and fed it principally on 

 dock, though I gave it lettuce for a day or two. — Henry A. Hill ; 

 132, Haverstock Hill, Hampstead, N.W., Sept. 15, 1890. 



On the 24th of July a boy brought me a fine dark female of A. caia 

 to pin and set for him. It had certainly rubbed itself a little, but 

 only slightly. Fore wings deep chocolate ; hind wings black, except 

 at the base, which is reddish orange ; abdomen black, with a narrow red 



