918 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
first example, a g , emerged yesterday, from one of the Epping Forest 
cases. As neither Dr. Chapman nor Mr. Bacot would venture to pro- 
nounce upon the cases, | do not feel ashamed of my ignorance of 
them, except in so far as I suppose I ought to have examined their 
occupants critically, and that the time of year at which I was taking 
them ought to have made me suspicious. On a visit to Epping Forest 
in company with Dr. Chapman, on May 26th, we found 39 of these 
cases, and the larye were at that time on the point of spmning 
up. My companion suggested to me on that occasion that they might 
perhaps prove to be Narycia, as they seemed rather too scattered for a 
species possessing a wingless 9. I may add that since writing my 
last note I have found cases identical with these on pine trunks, at 
Westerham and Oxshott; a 2 N. monilifera emerged from one of the 
latter yesterday.—Lours B. Prout, F.E.8. June 22nd, 1900. 
CyMATOPHORA ocULARIS IN Krent.—lI have the pleasure to report the 
capture of a female C. ocularis, dryimg her wings on the trunk of a 
Lombardy poplar, at 6.45 p.m., on June 20th, 1900, in this distriet.— 
L. W. Newman, Salisbury Road, Bexley, Kent. 
ASSEMBLING oF ARcTIA viLLica.—Arctia villica 1s by no means an 
abundant species in this neighbourhood, but by diligent search this 
spring I discovered as many as five larvee. One of these emerged in a 
elass-fronted cardboard necktie box, in the north-west corner of my 
study, on June 17th. I noticed the imago during that afternoon, but 
forgot to kill it before dark. After sitting out in the garden until half- 
past nine I happened to come into the room, quite oblivious of the 
‘“cream-spot’s’’ presence, when I heard two large insects, which I 
thought for the moment must have been hawks, buzzing about in 
great excitement on the upper part of a window facing south, the lower 
part of which was open. ‘They proved to be males of A. villica. I now 
lighted my lamp and placed it on the table near this south window 
(still leaving the female A. villica confined in the box of her birth, in 
the north-west corner), but as an experiment I also opened the window 
facing due west, and awaited eventuahties. At 9.45 a third male A. 
vilica arrived, and entering the room by the lower sash of the south 
window was promptly captured by me and cyanided. At 9.55 a fourth 
suitor arrived and met with similar treatment. After this no more 
came, although I watched till 10.45. There seems to me little doubt 
that all these four males came up against the wind.—Rev. G. H. 
Raynor, M.A., Hazeleigh Rectory, Maldon, Essex. June 22nd, 1900. 
Comias EDUSA IN THE IstE or Man.—On June 21st, about 11 a.m., 
I saw a number of Colias cdusa flying about in a erass field close to 
the railway station, at Peel Road. This insect is looked upon as rare 
here, a few odd specimens only turning up from time to time. I have 
taken it occasionally at Laxey, Castletown, and Sulby. Is this looked 
upon as an edusa year?—H. Suorrrmen Cranks, F.E.S., Sulby 
Parsonage, Isle of Man. June 28rd, 1900. [Mr. Eaton records half 
a dozen of C’. edusa (both sexes) near Branscombe, on June 12th, in 
fine condition. He also noted Pyrameis cardui at the same time and 
place. Mr. Prout saw both species at Chattenden on June 11th.—Kp.| 
RearRinG SEsIA PHILANTHIFORMIS.—I have recently bred a number 
of Sesta philanthiformis (musciformis) from thrift, gathered from the 
rocks during May, and as | have been somewhat successful I venture 
to give briefly the means resorted to, which may prove useful to those 
