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bred this insect from larvaj picked up on the open moor (Dartmoor). Phragmatohia 

 fuliginosa, L. : numerous at Seaton, and common in the Wallcombe Woods, near 

 Grensfan, Ilorrabridge. I have taken a dozim $ in a few minutes on one spot, 

 evidently after a ? . Eriogaster lanestris, L. : tlie larvee numerous in the thorn 

 hedges round Seaton, but I do not think it is taken west of Exeter. I was once 

 informed by Mr. Bignell that if larvae were brought west of Exeter they would not 

 turn to pupae. In 189;), when at Seaton, I had 70 or 80 larvae. As long as they 

 were at Seaton they grew and thrived exceedingly ; when they were almost full-fed 

 I took them to a house on Dartmoor, 800 feet above sea level ; the larvse fed and fed 

 but none attempted to pupate, and eventually died one by one, the last dying on 

 November 8th. Whether this was owing to bringing them west of Exeter or from 

 sea level to a higher altitude I cannot say. Paecilocampa populi, L. : some years 

 abundant at Seaton. Soarmia repandata, var. conversaria, L. : more abundant than 

 usual this year. Botys asinalis, Hiib. : I found this not uncommonly in June, 

 1894; B. lancealis,W.Y. : fairly numerous in all the woods round there. Melanippe 

 galiata, W. V. : abundant this year. Acidalia imitaria, Hiib. : much more common 

 this season than I have ever seen them. I took Deilephila livornica, Esp., on June 

 7th at rhododendrons at Horrabridge. — John N. Still, Seaton : August, 1894. 



Occurrence of the yellow male of Hepialus humuli, L., in Lanarkshire. —On the 

 evening of July 18th my nephew and I were collecting along the grassy borders of 

 a small patch of unreclaimed bog land in South Lanarkshire, lying at an elevation 

 of between 700 and 800 feet. A little after 9 o'clock Hepialus humuli began to fly, 

 and I had just been commenting on the large size and beauty of the white males, 

 when my attention was arrested by a hovering yellow Hepialus about the size of an 

 ordinary $ H. humuli. No time was given me to come to any conclusions regarding 

 it, for the sudden appearance on the scene of an undoubted V of H. humuli put an 

 end to conjecture, and the two insects were soon united and settled on a grass stem. 

 I have not before me any of the aberrations of H. humuli which have hitherto been 

 considered peculiar to the Shetland Isles, but the insect now under consideration 

 agrees entirely with the $ figured by Mr. Barrett in his " Lepidoptera of the British 

 Isles," pi. 63, fig. \c. The ground colour of the fore-wings is nearly identical with 

 that of the fore-wings of the $ along with which it was caught, but the markings 

 on these wings are fainter and greyer in the ^ than in the ? . The hind-wings are 

 decidedly blackish. H. humuli is just one of those common insects which no one 

 thinks of going out specially to collect and observe. In no other way can I account 

 for the fact that the yellow <? does not appear to have been noticed hitherto on the 

 mainland of Scotland, for of course it is now quite incredible that it should not 

 occur occasionally over the greater part of that country. — Kenneth J. Moeton, 

 Carluke, N.B. : July, 1894. 



Vespa austriaca, Panz. — During the closing weeks of June and early days of 

 July I was fortunate in securing five ? of the above species in a garden at Llan- 

 gollen, North Wales ; this locality is in same county as Colwyn Bay, where Mr. R. 

 Newstead took his specimens two or three years ago. I saw several others, which I 

 missed boxing, owing to a desire to trace them " home," if possible. I soon learned 

 to distinguish them on the wing by their listless flight, like that of a " cuckoo bee," 



