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suburban gardens that have an old currant-bush or two in them pro- 

 duce S. tipidifoniiis. In a garden in this immediate neighbourhood, 

 on July 4th, I observed a pair in cq,. about 5 p.m. They crawled upon 

 my coat-sleeve and entered a ])ox without any objection. They 

 remained paired until 10 p.m. I. W. Tutt, Westcombe Hill, S.E. 



Emergknck of Porthrsia ciirysorkhoea. — The first imagines of 

 this species appeared in the breeding-cage to-day, July 11th, ^ male 

 and female. This appears to mo rather earlier than ths date at which 

 they used to emerge when 1 l)rcMl them 20 years or more ago ; 9 others 

 emerged on the 12th, G males and 8 females ; 1 male only on the I3th; 

 5 (? and 7 ? on the l(3th, when 8 larvai of the same brood were still 

 feeding. — Ibid. 



PoRTHESrA CHRYSORRHOEA LARV.E IN ABUNDANCE AT DeAL. 1 found 



the larvfB of l\ chnjiion-hoca and P. simiUs in the greatest profusion afc 

 Deal on June 24th and 25th feeding on sloe and sea-buckthorn, the 

 former being specially abundant. I also found cases (pupte) of Fiimea 

 craasiorcUa on rushes near the seashore, and larvje of what is, 

 apparently LujHa lapidella on the fences, the latter feeding on the 

 lichens thereon. Noctuids abounded at sugar— .Vci^r/V/ reticulata, &c. 

 — E. M. Dadd, 3, Colina Villas, Green Lanes, Hornsey. June^Wt, 1899. 

 Rearing Luffia lapidella.- I am sending you living females and 

 eggs of T.iiflia lapiihdla, as well as some males which I have recently 

 bred. The latter commenced emerging on June 2nd, but I had noticed 

 two or three freshly empty pupa- cases on the walls a few days before 

 that date. The females come right out of the larva-cases and cling to 

 them. I noticed several thrusting their long ovipositors into the old 

 larval-cases and, on breaking these open, I found eggs inside. I also 

 noticed the cases on an old wall in the island of Alderney a few days 

 since. It also occurs in Sark. — W. A. Luff, Mount Pleasant, Burnt 

 Lane, Guernsey. Jidi/ QtJi, 1899. 



Spring collecting at Skipwith. — The sallows were completely ruined 

 here by the bad weather, and only one late flowering bush yielded any 

 moths : this, however, gave me half-a-dozen Taeniorauipa opima. 

 Everything otherwise is exceedingly backward and larvte small, those 

 of L>/c<>]iIiotia strif/ida are in great abundance, a large number having 

 been swept whilst working for A;irotiH aijathina. The latter also seems 

 to be very abundant, whilst the larvne of Scodiona behjiaria has been 

 comparatively scarce — at any rate, I have swept very few. Several 

 larvae of Trochilium crabronifoniie were found in some sticks brought 

 as " pea rods," but a visit to the plantation yielded but few more. 

 Indoors, in a room without a fire, moths still emerge very erratically. 

 Hadena conti(iua, which began to come out in December, are still 

 emerging singly at the rate of one or two a week, (.'ollix spanata 

 began to come out in April, then stopped, and are just beginning to 

 appear again, but I have many cripples of this species. Just now 

 hybernated specimens of Pcronea iiii.rtaua are plentiful on the common, 

 but all are worn.~(Rev.) C. D. Ash. B.A., Skipwith Vicarage, Selby. 

 Mail ll^/'> 1^09. 



New Forest in June. — I have just returned from a visit to the 

 New Forest, where everything a])pears to be scarce, and beating very 

 slow work. 1 managed, however, to get larvJB of the following species : 

 Zephynta ifucrcus fairly common ; Drymonia chaonia, a few ; Catocala 

 promissa, C.sponsa, Hylnphila qm i < ana, X(da striyala, Ennomos erosaria, 



