348 THE entomologist's RECORr). 



iiticavi'i([l), Helotrojj/ia fibrosa [1), and Viminia albovenom {ii) (these must 

 have belonged to a second brood), Pldhalapteryx vittata {lignata), and 

 Cidaria testata, whilst Calamia phraiimitidu was very scarce. Larva3 of 

 Papilio machaon were fairly common, also Halias chlorana, Cidaria 

 testata, Saturnia paronia, Viminia albovrnosa, Chnerocampa clpoior, &c. 

 I obtained a fair number of Micros, but have not named them yet. On 

 the whole, I think it has been a very fair season, considering the 

 weather. Macrot/lofsa steUatannn is swarming about here. — H. M. 

 Edelsten, F.E.S.,The Elms, Forty Hill, Enfield. 



Lepidoptera of south-east Essex. — This has been the worst 

 season for Noctuids I have experienced in this district. From the first 

 week in July sugar has not only not paid, but has, on many occasions, 

 not attracted even one moth. As a set-off against this almost total 

 failure of sugar I had the good fortune to meet with a few good species, 

 some of them in considerable numbers. I think I have seen more 

 specimens of the following insects than in any previous year ; Jwiandra 

 UDiotaria, Asthena luteata, Macroglossa stellatarum , Pyra)neis atalanta, 

 Lf'iicama obsoleta, At/rotis corticea, Cidaria jjijraliata, Kupithccia 

 plumheolata, and E. subnotata, P/iytonietra viridaria, lloxana arcuana, 

 Dasycera olivierella, Aconiia luctuosa, and Homoeosnnia binaerella. The 

 following notes will, I hope, prove not uninteresting : February 19th, 

 Diurnca fayiila, ^ and J emerged; April 4th, ^.sjj/(rt//a//ac/ror^(/.s, at 

 Eastwood. On the 9th, I boxed, at Benlleet, a specimen of Epiaraphia 

 steinkellneriana, which had fluttered from the bottom of a quick hedge 

 and settled on a grass blade. 16th, Ephipjnphora fucneana \siY\ee, com- 

 mon in roots of mugwort at Shoeburyness, Dicrorampha petirendla, in 

 yarrow. May 7th, mines of Bucculatrix inaritima, not uncommon in 

 leaves of sea-aster, at Benfleet. 20tb, cases of Coleopjhora compicuella, 

 common on Ccntaurea niyra, at Benfleet, those of C. alcyonipennella, 

 scarce. 22nd, puparia of Sesia cidiciforinis, protruding from birch 

 stumps, at Eastwood. 28th, a friend was kind enough to invite me to 

 visit a locality a few miles out of this district where Calymnia pyralina 

 had occurred, a number of Calymnia larvae were beaten out, from 

 which I bred early in July C. pyralina (3) and C. ajpnis (3), cases of 

 C. hadiipennella were found on elm, Coleophora rhninetella and 

 Depremaria conterminella, on osier. 31st, Hyloplnla prasinana, bred. 

 June 3rd, Elachista albifrontella, on a colt's foot leaf, at Southend. 

 4th, Bucculatrix ulmella and Zonowma porata, out of oak, at Eastwood. 

 6th, Cryptoblabes bifitriya, from larvre beaten at Eastwood and Hockley. 

 7th, ScJioenobius yiyantclliis, flying over reeds, at Pitsea. 11th, Catoji- 

 tria alber^ana and Drepana laccrtinaria, at Eastwood. 15th, O'^ra/diora 

 tripuncta, at Prittlewell. 17th, Earias chlorana, netted, also a larva of 

 Litliosia lurideula, on a fence, at Benfleet. 22nd, Amphidasys bitidaria 

 (old type), from Hockley larvae. On June 22nd I found a brood of larvs of 

 LTrammesia triyraunnica, the most sluggish larva I have ever attempted to 

 rear. June 23rd, Ephentia semirufa, in Southend. 25th, Telcia Incnlella, 

 Incurvaria vchlmannieUa, Hedya neylectana, and Erastria fasciana, at 

 Eastwood. Moths very common on tree trunks. 29th, CEcopJiora 

 Jiavifrontiila, netted at Eastwood. Puisina tenebrosa, Diptrryyia scab- 

 riuscula, and Euplexia lucipara, at sugar. 30th, Eupithecia linariata 

 and E. absintkiata bred Southend larvte. July 1st, Anticlea rnhidata, 

 at Prittlewell. 2nd, Hecatera serena, at Eastwood. 4th, Melanippe 

 hastata, larva) emerged from Eastwood ova and sleeved on birch. 



