NOTES ON COLLEOTINO. 9jg 



Eupnecilia affinitana, emerged, Comta liiinipcrda, at Pitsea. 8th, a 

 solitary larva of J\i/ratm'i:i ranliii, at Westclift". (Kcnphora I imardlo,' on 

 railway fence, at Pitsea. i)tb, Hcdifa oceUana, bred from hawthorn. 

 10th, Anaranipix laeninldla, flying freely over Lotm, at Eastwood, 

 Ft'nthina ochrolcurana, netted. 12th, Snphronia paretithesrlla and 

 Neweophila rmsida $ , at Eastwood. A few ova were deposited by the 

 latter, the larvae resulting from which will hibernate quite small, which 

 is, I believe, usual ; J. P. Hodgkinson {Entomoloijht, vol. vi., p. Ill) 

 speaks of three broods in a year, and there are, I believe, other records 

 of rapid feeding up and emergence of this species. July 14th, larva) of 

 ]\[arnyilnssastrllatar)i)t) on Galium vcruni, at Benfleet, Larcntia didi/tnata, 

 netted at Prittlewell. 15th, a visit to the C. pyralina locality in the 

 hope of getting a good series of that insect at sugar was very disap- 

 pointing. Mot a single moth came to the bait. I netted C. pifralina 

 (1), Ani/tTona pninaria (1), and Mclanthia bicolorata (1). 17th, larvie 

 of CJiwrocaiiipa pnrrdltts on (Tcdinm. rcrum, at Benfleet. 19th, Tarliyp- 

 tilia papnlella, bred from aspen. 21st, Crambm pindluA, at Bentleet. 

 23rd, Kupithecia obloivjata, bred from last year's ragwort — a late 

 emergence. 2otli, Cyaniris ari/inlus, seen at Southend ; rather 

 common at Prittlewell. 29th, Acidalia VKsticata, not, I fancy, hitherto 

 reported from Essex, occurred, but was very local. During last winter 

 I was permitted to examine a beginner's small collection, which con- 

 tained, among other good things, two specimens of this species, but 

 for this, I doubt if I should have found this insect, Litlwsia yn'srola, 

 flying at dusk. 31st, Art/yrolepia hadiana, Cyaniris an/iolus, and 

 Apatela aceris, at Shoeburyness. August 1st, a fine Ijasincaiiijia qncrci- 

 folia, on the frame of a gas lamp, Southend. 5th, Semasia rufdlana 

 and (Trapholitha nifidla, netted at Pitsea. 7th, Lejitoyrainma literana, 

 on ashed, near Shoeburyness. Fhihalaptcry.r vitalbata, beaten. 9th, a 

 few Gracilaria ain-oyuttdla, bred from HypericKm, gathered at Shoe- 

 buryness. 19th, larvfe in umbels of Daucus carota, from which I hope 

 to breed Spilodcs palralis next season. They agree with Mr. Porritt's 

 description (Ento)iiolnyist, vol. xii. , pp. 17-18) . Larva) of Earias rhlorana 

 and Pernnea hastiaiia, on osier. August 20th, Ochscnheinwria hirddla, 

 flying freely about 1 p.m., at Shoeburyness. 25th, Catoptria hyprri- 

 rana, emerging in some numbers, Sdenia bilunaria, a partial third 

 brood, Ei(pitJtecia assimilata, in Southend, a few larvje afterwards 

 found on hop. September 3rd, Zonosoma pintctaria, Ejdiippijdiora simi- 

 lana and Gclcchia iindindla (very worn), netted at Eastwood, J'yrauu'is 

 atalanta, common on heads of scabious skirting path in wood near 

 Hadleigh. August 17th-24th, Ciiciillia astrris, larvas on sea-shirwort, 

 near Shoeburyness, and swarms of larvfe of Iladma trifnlii on 

 Vhenopodium viaritimiiin. October 3rd, Peronea liaatiana and Eubolia 

 cervinaria, emerging. — F. G. Whittle, 3, Marine Avenue, Southend. 



The food-plant of Cabera kotundaria. — Ekratum. — I do not know 

 whether my writing was less legible than usual, but my article in the 

 last number contains several printer's errors, one of which (a)it>-, 

 p. 290) involves an error that it is well not to perpetuate. The larva 

 of Cabera rotnndaria was beaten from " alder," not " elder." — W. S. 

 EiDiNG, M.D., Buckerell, Devon. 



Lepidoptkra in the AuTiniN OF 1899. — Arhvrontia a<n)y'(/.s has occurred 

 in this district this autumn, but in no great numbers. Larvre of ( 'asms 

 liyniperda are very plentiful here. I have had dozens brought me by 



