21i THE entomologist's record. 



when IbreJ a moth from almost every larva, and fine large specimens. 

 A few arc coming out from larva' kindly sent me from Yorkshire by Mr. 

 Ash, but they are small and poor-looking, as those of last year. Light 

 has paid pretty well lately, one curious feature being the large number 

 (comparatively) of ? Pdlura wonacha, taken in the traps. This 

 species is very late this season, being now just in finest condition, 

 Lriocaiiipa (lictacoidi'n also turning up, three this week. It may be of 

 interest to note that CaUiworpha Iwra is spreading, I saw one in 

 Alphington yesterday and took two close to Exminster. I also saw a 

 g Ci)lias ('(him in St. Thomas, a suburb of Exeter. — E. F. Studd, 

 M.A., F.E.S., Oxton, Exeter. Au(jmt 12th, 1899. 



Notes from south-east London. — The following dates may be 

 interesting as coming from the London district : On June 25th I 

 captured Sinerinthut> popnli 3^ at Sydenham, on July 11th, S and ? 

 of the same species at Dulwich, on Jiily 16th and 18th, other males, 

 and on the 31st another ? at Sydenham. The female captured at 

 Dulwich measures 91mm. in expanse, and laid 183 eggs. On June 

 3rd I captured .S'. iiliac S ^t Sydenham, on the 6th a ? at Forest 

 Hill, on the 15th a g- at Sydenham, on July 8th a ? at Dulwich. 

 The latter had laid 39 eggs on the side of some stone steps which were 

 quite five yards from a lime tree. On June 17th, 1897, 1 captured a male 

 specimen of S. (x-ellatus at Sydenham, but have never seen the species 

 since. On June 23rd, 1899, I captured a specimen of M. steUatanon 

 on a fence near rhododendrons, in Sydenham. A female (raptcnjx 

 saiiihiicaria laid 457 eggs between July 13th and 16th, and one of 

 Zoifzeya /ii/riiia, captured on the 15th, had laid 223 by the morning of 

 the 18th. Cijaniri>^ arpinliis were seen in the roads at Sydenham, and 

 two 3 s and one $ were captured. On August 14th, about 9 a.m., a male 

 and female (h-fn/ia antiqiia emerged from pupa?, they paired directly 

 after and remained so until about 10 a.m. By the evening 75 eggs had 

 been laid, very few on the 15th and 16th, but by the evening of the 

 17th, 277 had been deposited, one batch numbering 93 and another 

 79. — A. M. Swain, 5 Kelvin Terrace, Sydenham, S.E. 



Lepidoptera in Lancashire. — The following dates refer to observa- 

 tions made this year: — S)iieyinthii$ jxipuli, three larva' taken at Halli- 

 well, near Bolton, on August 22nd, two nearly fullfed, one Just about 

 to change its skin (2nd moult) one of the older ones buried itself on 

 August 25th. Siiicrinthiin occllatm — one larva taken on August 21st, 

 at ijimbrick, nearChorley, Lancashire, buried itself the following day. 

 This is the first that I have observed in this neighbourhood where 

 the insect appears to be very rare. 21arn)(/h)>^m stcUatanim — saw a 

 specimen on June 10th, at Halliwell, another at Old Traftbrd, Man- 

 chester, on June 17th, hovering over some blue flowers in a lady's hat. 

 Tnichiliiini ajiiforvic — caught the first examples observed in this dis- 

 trict between Julv 12th and 21st. — 0. "NVhittaker, Moreland, Heaton, 

 Bolton. Aii;iiist 26M, 1899. 



Lepidoptera in the IUknley district in 1899. — In consequence of 

 a rather cold and wet spring there was very little doing here till the 

 end of May. On May 27th, l-'idonia atoiiiaria were Hying in the sun- 

 shine among heather, and a few Satiirnia coriu'iii J s were also seen. 

 On May 29th, a single Votnsia cawhrirarin was found on a trunk at 

 Hardcastle, near Hebden Bridge, Yorksliire ; a Aery early specimen. 

 June 3rd, Tacitiuraiupa ndnuvm was still Hying, but worn, and also T. 



