8s ; (September, 
Hera in the South and West of England have occurred during the last ten years. 
Possibly those entomologists who are acquainted with such captures will favour us 
with an account of the circumstances, so as to form a tolerably complete record. 
There can be no doubt that the species has more right to a place in the British List 
than many now existing therein. Our younger readers should, however, remember 
that specimens from the Continent (perhaps we may say, from the Channel Islands) 
car) be purchased for a nominal sum.—Ebs. | 
\\Notes on Sesia chrysidiformis.—This Clear-wing appears to be rather more nume- 
rous Yhere than it was last season; had we had more fayourabl> weather, I have no 
doubt a goodly number would have been taken; as it is, several entomologists, who 
recolle:zt many fruitless hours in 1870, think themselves tolerably well off. I sus- 
pect she insect has been compelled to betake itself to sorrel as a diet, for few dock- 
root-S have been left on those parts of the Warren where it formerly abounded. I 
forought home two or three roots, from a new locality, early last year, but only one 
imago put in anappearance. I then placed the old blackened roots in a bex covered 
with gauze, but without sand, expecting nothing from them, yet not liking to throw 
away even a faint chance. On going to the box the other day there were three 
freshly-emerged specimens. Moral: always save your old dock-roots. The imago - 
emerges between nine and twelve, but one came out in the afternoon. When the 
larva is full-fed, it ascends to the higher parts of the roots, lining its tunnel with 
silk, and there turns to pupa; some even spin up in the lower parts of the thick 
stems. When about to change, the chrysalis wriggles itself partly out of the tunnel 
through a hole previously prepared, but blocked up with frass or mining refuse ; 
these empty pupa-cases then resemble those of Z. wsculi, seen in the stumps and 
sides of trees —Hy. Uttyrrt, Folkestone, July, 1871. 
Captures of Lepidoptera in Sherwood Forest.—From June 12th to 16th I spent 
at Sherwood Forest, in company with the Messrs. Daltry, of Madeley, for the pur- 
pose of collecting Lepidoptera. The weather was very unfavourable, and had been 
so for some time previously ; consequently imagos were very scarce. Sugaring was 
quite a failure, as indeed it seems to have been throughout the country during the 
first half of the season. We had most success in beating for larvae, which were 
plentiful. The species taken were as follows, omitting the commonest :—Thecla 
quercus, larvee common; Cherocampa porcellus, one specimen flying about a 
sugared tree ; Hepialus velleda ; Liparis auriflua, larve in profusion ; Orgyia pudi- 
bunda ; Pecilocampa populi, one larva beaten from oak ; Himera pennaria, larvee 
not uncommon; Phigalia pilosaria, larvae very common; Nyssia hispidaria, larvee 
from oak; Amphydasis betularia; Tephrosia biundularia and punctulata, rather 
common, at rest on trunks of trees; Iodis lactearia, Ephyra punctaria and pendu- 
laria, rather common ; Panagra petraria, very abundant amongst Pteris aquilina ; 
Aspilates strigillaria, on the heath ; Hybernia defoliaria, larvee abundant ; Cheima- 
tobia boreata, in the larval state ; Emmelesia decolorata, Eupithecia pulchellata, cas- 
tigata, vulgata, and exiguata, Thera variata, Melanthia ocellata, Coremia unidentaria, 
Cidaria corylata, Eubolia palumbaria ; Stawropus fagi,a beautiful male specimen, at 
rest on a young oak; Huperia fulvago and OCymatophora flavicornis, larvee not un- 
common on birch; Neuria saponarie, at sugar; Teniocampa cruda and miniosa, 
