192 THE entomologist's eecord. 



Burnley, also a typical specimen (a reddish form) on the 9th, the pupa 

 taken in the same way at Bungay. May 3rd- 18th, several Hadena 

 pid from near Wimbledon. May 13th-15th, Crocallis hhlcntata from 

 Manchester district. May 11th, Kiipithcria rciiasata, the larva was found 

 on Sih'uc at Malton, Yorks. May 13th, Saf.nnu'a pavonia, from the 

 moors, Burnley ; also KiicJiclia jambafar from Southport. These have 

 a tendency to form twin spots instead of one large spot on the upper 

 Aving, and I have two specimens in which they are quite distinct. — • 

 W. G. Clutten, 10, Halliwell Street, Burnley. Mai/ llth, 1S99. 



Collecting in the Chilterns. — I have been favoured with several 

 interesting letters from readers of the Record, who have explored the 

 Chiltern Hills at, or in the neighbourhood of, the locality described in 

 my paper (p. 9H). With regard to the insects enumerated, Mr. 

 N. C. Rothschild informs me that, as I suspected, Vatuphila aitimia and 

 An/i/nnis adiiqic are common enough at several places in the district, 

 but that ^Lliana>■gia (/alatJica appears to have died out since 1895, 

 together with Pob/diiiiiiatns Jwllarum, and MrUtaea aiirinia. I can only 

 hope that any collectors who may follow in my footsteps will be able 

 to give a better account of the last two species. As far as Jv. (jalathea 

 is concerned, I should say that it is the one luitterfly in the list not 

 taken or observed by me personally, but the record was made, I fancy 

 by Mr. Spiller, who resided at Chinnor, not many miles away, and was 

 published elsewhere. I further stated that the comfortable inn I found 

 was at Little Kimble. This was a slip of the pen, as the hostelry in 

 question is situated at Great Kimble, rather nearer to the best collect- 

 ing ground. — H. Rowland Brown, M.A., F.E.S.,Oxhey drove, Harrow 

 Weald. Man ^>"f, 1^99. 



The late season. — The promise of an early spring has by no 

 means been fulfilled in the localities I have visited since April began. 

 At Easter time I was several days in the New Forest, but the only 

 butterflies I came across were Kunonia poli/rhloyos, in some numbers 

 near Lyndhurst, and on the road from Christchurch to Leamington ; 

 AijlaU nrtlcae and (Toncptern.r rliamni, very common everywhere, both 

 within and without the forest proper. Picris rapae was just emerging 

 on April 5th, but though I searched the tree trunks with some care I 

 came across nothing except an odd specimen or two of Xj/Iocaiiijia 

 areola. Week-end visits to Stratford-on-Avon and the Chesham dis- 

 tricts added nothing further to my April observations. — Ibid. Mai/ 2iid, 



1899. 



Spring Lepidoptera. — Devon. — I have so far noticed tlie following 

 first appearances our of doors, riz., February llth, J'/iii/alia jiedaria, 

 Aiiij)Jiidasi/s strataria, Tortricodes In/eiiKoia. March 9th, Asjdialla jiarl- 

 c(irnis, Aiii^iijderi/.r aesetdaria, Lamttia iindtistn'i/aria. March 12th, 

 Kupitlweia ahlireriata, Tae)ti(>(aiiiiia indrenileitta, Diiirnea faijella. 

 March 13th, SeJoiia Iiilimaria, Tephnisia bistortata. March 14th, 

 Xi/loranijia areala. On March 12th, I bred (kept in a warm room all 

 winter) Xotudonia ilidiiiedariiis, 3 , from a larva found at Selby, Yorks, 

 August 7th, 1897, with others. All but this one emerged in May, 

 1898, but this went over the second winter in pupa. There is nothing 

 to distinguish the moth from the others. To-day (^larch 20th) there 

 is a heavy snowstorm, and sallowing seems almost out of the question. 

 This morning I brought in the Litliocollctid mines that have been out 

 of doors in bags all winter. I found that a few LWuK-iAlrih^ runinivUa 



