go [March, 



Calocampa vetusta in January. — On January 15th I received a specimen of 

 Calocampa vetusta from my friend, Mr. W. J. Hamilton. He had taken it on Jan. 13th 

 on Benbow Mountain, Manor Hamilton, Co. Leitrim. In reply to enquiries he tells 

 me that the moth was wriggling on the heather with its wings closed, and seemed 

 very lazy. The day was very mild, with a south-west breeze. The slight motion 

 made by the moth attracted my friend's attention, and, being a smoker, he had a tin 

 match bos to which he consigned the insect, and in which it reached me. Evidently 

 the mildness of the weather made the moth mistake the season. — W. F. Johitson, 

 Armagh : January 2bth, 1894. 



Epunda lutulenta, var. sedi, in Cumberland. — On August 29th, 1893, I sugared 

 at a place called E.ed Cat, about two miles south of Carlisle, and obtained Hadena 

 protea, Anchocelis litura, Agrotis segetum, PJilogophora meticulosa, and a specimen 

 of Epunda lutulenta, var. sedi. From that time I sugared the same trees re- 

 peatedly (there being no ivy about the place worth speaking of) until October, and 

 though I took Epunda nigra, Noctua glareosa, many common species, and the 

 ordinary form of JS. lutulenta, I never saw the var. sedi again. A wood lies on one 

 side of the road, and on the other side is a small heath bordered by the row of trees 

 which I sugared. The greater number of the trees are Scotch fir, with a few oak 

 and ash, the undergrowth of the wood consists of birch, sallow, mountain ash, &c. 

 The country round about abounds with Scotch fir woods, and heaths and waste 

 land. A Member of our Society (Mr. Gilbertson) tells me that he also has in his 

 possession an insect which exactly resembles my var. sedi. He took it at sugar 

 about the year 1890 at Peastraw Wood, near Carlisle ; so two specimens of this moth 

 have been obtained in this locality. — F. H. Day, 6, Cunock Terrace, Carlisle : 

 February hth, 1894. 



[I attended an interesting meeting of young entomologists the other evening at 

 Carlisle, and saw Mr. Day's specimen. It is a fine example of the form of -E. lutu- 

 lenta, which is of a rich slate-grey with a broad black band. I am not quite sure 

 whether this variety has been obtained elsewhere in England ; most of our specimens 

 are from the West of Ireland. — C. Q-. B.]. 



Agriotypus armatus, Curtis, in Perthshire. — It may be worth recording the 

 occurrence in Perthshire of this interesting parasite on Trichopterous larvsB. On 

 May 1st last year, while collecting Perlidce on the shores of Loch Ard, I noticed 

 that an Ichneumon was not uncommon, and on now examining the single example 

 kept, I find it belongs to the above-named species. The identification is based on 

 material kindly sent to me by Professor Klapalek of Prague, who gave a valuable 

 account of the insect's life-history in vol. xxv of this Magazine, pp. 339 — 343. 

 Curtis's examples came from the Clyde, near Lanark, where they were taken by 

 Walker. I have never seen the species near that rivei*, although it has been a 

 favourite locality of mine for many years. Now that the insect's ways are better 

 known to me, I hope to refind it at or near the original station. This record serves 

 to confirm to some extent a point concerning which Klapalek was in doubt, namely, 

 Holmgren's statement that the species was found on the shores of Swedish lakes. 

 It seems that references to the conditions of water inhabited by various species of 



