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CAPTUEES AND FIELD KEPORTS. 



Spring Lepidoptera: — 



HampsJdre. — The foUowiug notes on recent captures and observations 

 in mid-Hants may help to show v?hat a remarkably early season it is: — 

 Anticlea badiata was taken on April 1st, and Hemerophila abrujytaria on 

 the 2nd ; Cidaria suffumata and Triphosa dubitata on the 4th ; Cidaria 

 siderata a few days earlier, when Ematurga atomaria and Pachycnemia hip- 

 pocastanaria were also out, the former very fine and dark specimens ; on 

 the 5th, Eupithecia nanata was taken, and E.jnimilata; on the 6th, a 

 single Syrichthus malva, two Lycana argiolus (one rather worn), and 

 Pararge egeria ; Pieris brassiccB, male, was also netted, while Gonopteryx 

 rhamni was in great force; another specimen of Eupithecia pumilata was 

 taken, and two more E. nanata ; several Vanessa polychloros were seen on 

 the 7th, and a few more Pararge egeria ; also Pieris napi and Saturnia 

 pavonia. — Savile G. Reid, Capt. R.E.; Froyle House, Alton, Hants. 



Hunts. — I found a perfect Saturnia pavonia female on a hawthorn 

 hedge, on April 5th, at Molesworth, Huntingdonshire. She had laid 

 fifty-two eggs on the twig where she was resting. — (Rev.) F. H. Wood ; 

 4, St. Paul's Terrace, Northampton, April 12, 1893. 



Kent. — Rhopalocera : — Pieris rapa, one in our garden, March 24th; 

 and another in a field the following day. Gonopteryx ihamni, a fine male, 

 flying along a bank near Bexley, March 8th. Yanessa urticce, several, in 

 fair condition. Heterocera : — Saturnia pavonia, saw a fine female in a 

 friend's breeding-cage, March 13th ; the pupse had been kept in a cold room, 

 and were not in any way forced. Asphalia flavicornis, a male in my 

 breeding-cage, March 3rd ; I afterwards took a female from birch, and a 

 few males on the lamps. Tmniocampa gothica, at present I have only 

 taken one, a male, at sallow, March 13th. T. incerta, only one male of this 

 insect, also at sallow, March i3th. T. populeti, a friend took a male flying 

 around a lamp, March 13th. T. stabilis, common at sallow. T. niunda, I 

 have not taken it myself, but have heard of a few at sallow. T. pulverulenta, 

 abundant at sallow. Cerastis vaccinii, common around the lamps in 

 B^ebruary, swarming at sallow in March. Scopelosoma satellitia, a few at 

 sallow, only one in good condition. Brephos parthenias, saw three in West 

 Wickham Wood, March 11th ; and am now taking them commonly in 

 Jayden's Wood. Phigalia pedaria, two males on lamps, February 2nd ; 

 common from that date till March 13th ; only one female. Nyssia hispi- 

 daria, I did not work for it this year, but took a nice male, with whitish 

 hind margin and hind wings, in West Wickham Wood, March 11th. 

 Biston hirtaria, a friend bred a male, March 13th, and took a female the 

 next day ; I also bred a male, March 23rd. Amphidasys strataria, female 

 in the breeding-cage, March 7th ; I have bred three females this year, in 

 which the usual chocolate markings are replaced by black and very dark 

 brown ; none of the specimens bred emerged before dark, the wings rarely 

 being dry before 7.30. Hybernia rupicapraria does not appear to be very 

 common here ; I have only seen a few males on the lamps. H. leucophcearia, 

 the first on a lamp, February 2nd; it has been very common this year; I 

 often took about thirty males from Dartford Heath fence after a south- 

 westerly gale. I have taken all the varieties described by Mr. Arkle 

 (Entom. XXV. 123, 145 j, with the exception of marmorinaria ; another 

 variety, of which T have seen three specimens, has, within the grey band, a 

 dark central shade of the same colour as the boundary lines, the remainder 



