90 The entomologist. 



lingered, as did blossoms of Vitex agnUH-castiis, and were haunted by the 

 "tailed" blues. Other rare plants in tlower were Sternbergia lutea, 

 Plumbago europcEci, Muscari parvijlorum, Crocus medius ; the only known 

 localities being the grassy summits of a few of the higher mountains along 

 this coast for this last, and near Final marina Campanula isophylla ; so, as 

 will be seen, those who arrive early in the autumn find many very inte- 

 resting and lovely botanical rarities, as well as insects. I forgot to mention 

 thai ISyrichthusfritilluni, Hb., var. alveus, lib., is still to be caught in shel- 

 tered nooks, and that Deiopeia pulchella, L., was rather common during the 

 second week in October along the coast. I had noticed specimens of this 

 insect in the same places last May. It becomes quickly ragged and torn, 

 from its habit of plunging into the thistles that grow on the shores. — 

 Frank B. Norris ; October 31, 189-2. 



NOTES AND OBSEEVATIONS. 



Notes on Eupcecilia geveiuana and Cemiostoma lotella. — Eupce- 

 cilia geyeriana appears to be an instance of what has been thought, in many 

 other cases, to be " double-broodeduess." Previously I had only met with this 

 insect in i^ugust, but during the season of 1892 1 took eight tine specimens 

 on the 25th of May ; fifteen on the 30th of May, in company with Mr. 

 Eustace Bankes, and a few others shortly after ; also several on different 

 days during June, and one on the 15th of July. In August it appeared 

 again in larger numbers, but scarce compared with the previous year, 

 when the food-plant (which had almost disappeared in 1892) was in profu- 

 sion. Mr. Richardson, again, found the larvae in a plant I sent to him on 

 the 5th of July, 1892. From my own and Mr. Eichardson's observations (see 

 Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist, and Autiq. Field Club, xiii. p. 173) it appears that 

 some of the larvae, hatched probably in June and July from the May 

 insects, remain throughout the winter in the decayed seeds or stems of 

 their lood-plant, and emerge to form the loUowing scattered May, June and 

 July brood, and from this brood proceed the more compact August brood of 

 periect insects, as well as the hybernating larvae which produce the following 

 May and June brood. This process can scarcely be properly called 

 " double-brooded," though it is very probably the case also with many other 

 so-called "double-brooded" moths. It can hardly be that the August 

 brood should produce larvae, as by that time the plant has died down and all 

 signs of life have disappeared. In the volume above cited, Mr. Kichardson 

 has a coloured plate illustrating this moth, as well as its larva and food-plants, 

 from Mrs. Richardson's beautiful drawings. The larva has not, I believe, 

 been either figured or described before. The following somewhat similar facts 

 relating to the pretty little moth, Cemiostoma lotella, may not perhaps be 

 generally known: — In August, 1891, I bred it freely from a lot' of mines 

 found in Lotus major, in J uly ; and from the same lot there emerged seven 

 moths, on the 29th and 30th of May, 1892. From larvae or pupae thus 

 hybernating, and emerging in spring, it seems then almost certain that the 

 summer brood arises. Unless it had been bred as above noted, it would 

 be most natural, on finding the perfect insects in the month of May, to 

 conclude it to be distinctly double-brooded, much as in the case of Eupcecilia 

 geyeriana mentioned above. — (Rev.jO. P.Cambridge; Bloxworth Rectory, 

 Wareham, Dorset* 



