254 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



On April 4th saw imagines of E. albipunctata appearing in 

 my cages. They were from wild larvae collected the previous 

 autumn. On the 17th Hydriomena ruberata was bred. The 21st 

 was bright and warm during the day and in the afternoon I 

 found larvae of Arctia villica and A. caja, commonly, in bedstraw 

 clumps growing on a sunny bank bordering a main road outside 

 Portsmouth. Ova of Lycia (Biston) hirtaria hatched on the 23rd. 

 ■On the 2oth 1 found larvae of Parasemia plantaginis swarming 

 on the downs a few miles outside the town. Quite 50 per cent, of 

 these larvae subsequently fell victim to a fungoid disease that 

 invariably manifests itself after an unusually wet winter. During 

 the afternoon of the 28th I obtained more larvae of A. villica in the 

 lanes and I saw many half-grown larvae of Odonestis Rotatoria 

 on the rank grass. 



On May 5th Ephyra pendularia was bred and larvae of 

 A. villica commenced to spin up for pupation. The 12th was 

 sunny with a rough wind from the S.W. I went to the woods 

 in the forenoon, and beat much birch, chiefly to obtain larvae of 

 G. papilionaria, but I failed to find even one. Indeed all larvae 

 seemed to be remarkably scarce, and remained so throughout 

 the spring, the oaks in particular showing none of the usual 

 devastation by Tortrix viridana. Imagines of Venilia macularia 

 were just making their appearance, and I saw a couple of 

 Vanessa io, but observed little else. The 16th was a warm, 

 calm, sunny day, and I cycled to some woods fifteen miles 

 out. Much searching of beech trunks revealed solitary exam- 

 ples .q^nly of Tephrosia consonaria and T. pimctularia, which 

 specico'usually abound here. Imagines of Hesperia vialvae and 

 Nisoniadex tages were evidently just coming out, as I saw a 

 few fresh specimens of each in addition to numerous G. rhamni 

 and Vanessa io, etc. One side of the wood comes out at the top 

 of some downs, and here I found Callophrys rubi in superb 

 condition flying and sitting in abundance over and on beech 

 foliage. Here also were numerous Ematurga atomaria flying 

 over heather, and I netted a few Eidype hastata and two female 

 S. mendica flying in the sunshine. Beating produced Bapta 

 bimacidata, B. taminata and Cidaria corylata, etc. 



(To be continued.) " 



NOTES AND OBSEEVATIONS. 



Note on Synonymy op two Miceo-Lepidoptera from British 

 Columbia. — Through the kindness of Mr. B. H. Blackmore I lately 

 received some named species of micro-lepidoptera from British 

 Columbia, of which two call for comment. 



(1) Depressaria blachnori Busck is a later synonym of D. drya- 

 doxena, Meyr., but the fine bred examples now sent show that the 

 species to which these names apply is unquestionably the European 

 costosa Haw. These examples, bred from Genista, agree exactly in 



