204 THE entomologist's record. 



of the insect have been produced, viz., by the abnormal pressure of 

 the wings on the leg structure during the time of development. 



The example of Anthrocera exulans, described Brit. Lrp., i., p. 427, 

 is almost exactly parallel with the above, and has, in the same way, 

 two additional winglets developed between the left anterior wing and 

 the left mesothoracic leg. 



Entomology at Hazeleigh (Essex). 



By (Eev.) GILBERT H. RAYNOE, M.A. 



The following notes of what I have seen and done this year, until 

 the middle of June, may perhaps prove of interest. The great feature 

 of the season, so far, has been the abnormal abundance of Macro- 

 cilofisastdlatarton. They seem to be especially plentiful in the early 

 morning and at du'^k, at both of which times they are inc-lined to 

 enter rooms. They do this at dusk evidently with a view to securing 

 a safe resting-place till morning. They sit pressed close to the wall, 

 right at the top where it meets the ceiling, and in this position are 

 noj very easily seen. I take it that these M. stellatarnni are immi- 

 granLs from Europe, as they can hardly have succeeded in hybernating 

 here in such numbers. There will be abundance of food for their 

 progeny, as I never remember seeing the hedges so festooned Avith 

 luxuriant cleavers {(udinm aparine) as they are this year. It is this 

 sp33ies of Galium I presume to be their ordinary food inland, although 

 I have taken the larva at Dover on (Taliion renoii and at Sidmouth 

 on G. moUiii/o. To go back to the beginning of the seascn, fallows 

 were not very productive. Although I took five Taenioiatnpa popnleti 

 in my own garden in 1898, I did not see it at all this year, but I took 

 a single specimen of T. viiniosa at plum blossom, and a fair number 

 of 2\ incerta (very variable here), T. ri(brico>ia and T. (jracilis. T. 

 rubiicosa run very red compared with the form which I have been 

 taking of late years (in Lincolnshire), and the T. (jracilis we get seem 

 to be somewhat small ; one I took this year is beautifully suffused with 

 pink and another is very fuscous. Xylocavtpa areola, which u£cd to 

 be common here, was represented by a single specimen hovering round 

 sallow bloom on which it does not seem to settle down quietly as do 

 the Taeniocampids. Early in April I instituted a successful search 

 on tree-trunks for cases of Taleporia pwudohomhiicdla, which, however, 

 I could not find in any numbers. Later on, about the middle of May, 

 I found them, together with various Psychid cases, in great profusion 

 on the walls of a small black wooden shed (used as a luncheon-room 

 by shooters) in the middle of Hazeleigh Wood. This wood, covering 

 nearly 100 acres, and consisting chiefly of oak, with a considerable 

 quantity of hornbeam, maple, spindle, hazel, kQ., is splendid entomo- 

 logical ground, being the home of Oenistis quadra, ]\'ola stri(iula, 

 Cochlidion ardlana, Jhepana hinaria, and Litluma sororcula. The 

 first two species have only occurred singly, several years ago, but the 

 other three are not uncommon. Indeed I took no less that 44 L. 

 sororcula in two afternoons (say four liours' work altogether) early this 

 June, when they were in magnificent conditicn. My method of obtaining 

 them is to beat the outskirts of the wood with a 9-fcot pole on a really 

 hot day, from five till seven in the afternoon being a very gccd time. 

 They flutter gently out, from cak, maple, blackthorn and ash, but 



