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obtain Nyssia hispiduria, but have not been fortunate enough to meet with 

 it, and to the present time I have only heard of about eight having been 

 taken. Phigalia pedaria, Hyhernia leucophearia, Anisopteryx (Escularia, 

 occurred sparingly on the days when I was able to visit the park, but 

 several friends have taken all three species there commonly since the end 

 of February. On the 15th March, Tceniocampa gothica began to emerge, 

 in a cage that has been in the garden during the whole of the winter ; the 

 pupae were then brought into a warm room, and since then have emerged 

 very freely, averaging about half a dozen a day. I am also breeding 

 Eupithecia minutata, Lobophora viretata, and Hemerophila abruptaria, all 

 of which have been kept ir\ a room where there is a fire every day. — H. W. 

 Bakkee; 83, Brayard's Eoad, Peckham, S.E., March 25, 3 891. 



Notes feom the Wye Valley below Builth. — I found the year 

 ] 890, on the whole, a very bad one for Lepidoptera. I, however, succeeded 

 in adding some moths to the list I am making of the Lepidoptera of this 

 neighbourhood. On the 23nd of May I took at light two beautiful 

 specimens of Agrotis cinerea, which is, I believe, considered a good insect 

 anywhere, and one I hardly expected to get here, as I can hear of no other 

 instance of its capture anywhere in the district. In August I took also 

 at light Cleora glabraria. I found sugar almost a complete failure, and 

 took very few moths at it. Larvae in the spring and early summer were 

 very plentiful on the oaks, but in the autumn they were singularly scarce. 

 Butterflies were much fewer than usual, the commonest were, I think, 

 Polyommatus phlceas and Lycana icarus. The Vanessidse were, on the 

 contrary, very scarce. I hardly saw a specimen of V. atalanta or F. io, and 

 not a single V. cardui, all of which, especially the first two, are generally very 

 common here. — John Williams Vaughan, Jun, ; The Skreen, Eadnor- 

 shire, Erwood, K.S.O. 



Late appearance of Euchloe cardamines. — On various occasions 

 notes have appeared in the ' Entomologist ' of unusually late appearances of 

 Euchloe cardanimes. It may, therefore, be of interest to state that I saw 

 a specimen (male) on July 15th last, at Miirren, near Lauterbrunn in 

 Switzerland. It may possibly be worth recording, also, that during a tour 

 of between two and three weeks, in which time I walked over between 200 

 and 300 miles of that country, I saw but one specimen of Gonopteryx 

 rhamni, and that between Thun and Interlaken.— F. H. Perry Coste ; 

 Ravenshoe, Burnt Ash, March 4, 1891. 



PiERis RAP^. — On the 24th March last, a freshly emerged specimen 

 of Pieris rapes was taken in the kitchen at the Bridge House Hotel, 

 London. Although this date is late as compared with the recently recorded 

 specimens (Entom. xxiv. 77, 99), the position in which the insect was 

 found appears to me to afford a clue to their origin. What is more probable 

 than that the larva from which this butterfly was reared should have been 

 introduced into the kitchen in the autumn with the cabbages that woiild, in 

 the ordinary course of things, be brought into such a place for cuHnary 

 purposes, and being full fed seek some secluded corner in which to pupate ; 

 and its premature emergence be brought about by the warmth of the apart- 

 ment? In like manner, larvae that may have wandered into greenhouses to 

 undergo pupation would, by reason of the artificial warmth applied in the 

 early months of the year to force the plants into blossom, be also forced 



