NOTES ON COLLECTING. 277 



tenia, Ain)iJii(}asi/s hHnlaria, SiC, were also ol)taine(l. A few days ago, 

 I was in one of the woods here and saw ]'^/>liip]ii/>li(>ra siniilana, 

 l\haco(Ua raiidaiia and Peronca couijiaraiKi. ( lularia linhncrella 

 abounded among old birches, but was getting avoi'u, and a few Artiy- 

 rcathia retindla were in the same condition. I might add that Macro- 

 fllossa !>tellatan(iii has been much commoner in Cumberland than for 

 some years. — F. H. Day, 6, Currock Terrace, Carlisle. Sciitembcr Gth, 

 1899. 



Spilodes p.\lealis and Cuculll\ asteris at Southend. — The larvas 

 of Spilodes- palealis have occurred here in the umbels of Daticus carota 

 this autumn. I may also record that the larviT! of Cuvullia asUris are 

 locally common near here on plants of starwort. — F. G. "Whittle, 3, 

 Marino Avenue, Southend, Essex. Seiitemher 28t/i, 1899. 



Resting-habit of Macroglossa stellatarum. — I took a specimen of 

 Macnv/losxa stdlatarniii at rest on a wall at Eastbourne about noon on 

 August 14th, 1899, the sun shining brightly at the time. It was cling- 

 ing to apiece of clothes-line touching the wall and looked at first sight 

 exactly like a knot in the rope ; I also saw several in a field of lucerne, 

 on the road to Beachy Head. On September 17th, 1899, 1 saw a speci- 

 men of the same species hovering over flowers on the clifi". — C. W. 

 CoLTHRUP, 127, Barry Road, East Duhvich, S.E, 



LaSIOCAMPA QUERCdS MORE THAN TWELVE MONTHS IN PUPAL STAGE. 



A larva of Ladocampa qiicrn'is captured on May 16th, 1897, near Croydon 

 and fed up on plum, pupated June 29th, 1897, but did not emerge until 

 July 13th, 1898. I think this is not usual with southern examples. 

 ■ — Ibid. 



DiANTHOECIA LUTEAGO VAR. BARRETTII, IN WaLES. 1 SpCllt three Or 



four days in a remote part of Pembrokeshire last June ; entomology 

 was quite a .secondary matter, but I saw a few ordinary butterflies 

 about, including Pyraweia canJiii, and I spent some time on three suc- 

 cessive evenings on parts of the clift's where Silem' was flowering freely. 

 The only moth I saw, with the exception of three Noctuids, was 

 Fiipithecia venosata, fairly plentiful. The three Noctuids captured were 

 single specimens each of I'cridnima iipsilon (snffusa), DiantlKiecia con- 

 sperm, and I>. var. harrettii. The latter was a ? , and I kept hei'some 

 days to obtain ova. She laid a good many, but they were unfortu- 

 nately infertile. I landed one bright sunny day for a few hours on 

 Ramsey Island, and found Setina irmreUa very plentiful on the cliflfs. 

 — H. W. Vivian, B.A., F.E.S., Glanafon, Port Tallrot. SepUuilnr 

 22nd, 1899. 



Chrysophanus dispar. — " This is the only method li'ft now by 

 which we can collect British ('/iri/.sojdianits disiiar.'' This apologia for 

 the monied amateur has haunted me ever since I read Mr. Tutt's 

 remarks on the " Large copper," published three years since in the 

 Ent. liecord (vol. viii., G5), and I have more than once, in despair, been 

 tempted to bid (unsuccessfully) for sale-room specimens of this much- 

 prized species. In my wanderings in the eastern counties and in 

 Huntingdonshire, I have always closely scanned any cases or cabinets 

 which might happen to contain some unconsidered specimen. But 

 hitherto I have not succeeded in unearthing new recruits to the limited 

 ranks of C. dispar. The unexpected, however, happens in entomology 

 ;as often as in every other form of sport, and while I have been 

 ■"chasing the white blackl)ird " in every county but my own, two or 



