'64 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Plusia moneta in East Berks. — This handsome moth has now 

 become extremely common in the neighbourhood of Ascot. The food-plant, 

 monkshood, is much grown in cottage gardens about here, and from the 

 largest of a few clumps growing in our own garden I obtained a long series 

 of the moth on the evening of June 28th, bottling them from the flowers 

 by lantern-light, and scarcely using the net. More specimens, but worn, 

 were to be seen on the two succeeding nights. — M. J. Mansfield; Hurst- 

 croft, Ascot, July 1st. 



BoMBYX QUERCus AB. — Tn the spring of 1895 I collected a large 

 number of larvse of this species on the coast sandhills. Most produced 

 moths the same season, but eleven pupae remained over until this year ; 

 these have now emerged, and amongst them is a female having the base of 

 each wing thickly covered with dark scales ; but these rapidly decrease in 

 quantity, thus appearing to form all round the outer margins a very broad 

 band almost entirely devoid of scales, although the fringes are perfect and 

 very distinct. Amongst the large number bred there is great variation in the 

 depth of the ground colour: but the specimen specially referred to is totally 

 different to anything I have seen, and altogether is a most striking and in- 

 teresting specimen. — C. F. Johnson ; 59, Lowfield Road, Stockport, 

 July, 1896. 



SEsrA MYOPiFORMis. — On June 27th I caught in the garden here a 

 perfect female of S.myopiformis. — H. W. Bell-Marley; Ravenscourt Park. 



[Probably there is an old apple or pear tree in the garden where the 

 insect was taken, or at least in one not far away. We used to obtain 

 S. myopiformis freely from an old jargonelle pear-tree which grew in a 

 garden near Regent's Park. — Ed.] 



Thecla w-album at Reading. — On the 12th inst. I boxed a specimen 

 of the above insect ; it was settled on the flowers of bramble in a lane close 

 to my house; I don't think think it has been taken within five miles 

 of Reading before. Although I searched the lane I could not find another 

 specimen, neither could I find the food-plant (wych elm). — W. E. Butler ; 

 Hayhng House, Reading, July 19th, 1896. 



Thecla w-album at Chalfont Road, Bucks, — Several of the members 

 of the South London Entomological and Natural History Society who went 

 down to this locality on Saturday, the 18th inst., had the satisfaction 

 of taking this species. Unfortunately, however, the specimens were not all 

 in the best possible condition. I have collected in the district, at the same 

 time of year during several seasons, but never saw the species there before. 

 I should note that I also saw a female specimen of Argynnis paphia, 

 another species new to me for the district. — Richard South ; 100, Rither- 

 don Road, Upper Tooting, S.VV., July 21st, 1896. 



Vanessa c-album in Staffordshire. — A fine freshly emerged 

 specimen of the above butterfly was taken here by my brother-in-law, 

 Mr. J. R. B. Wasetield, in his garden, on July llth. — E. W. H. Blagg ; 

 Cheadle, Staffordshire, July 21st, 1896. 



Abundance of Chcerocampa porcellus. — No fewer than eighty or 

 ninety specimens were taken at my home in Gloucestershire. So abundant 

 were they that these specimens were picked specimens ; all slightly worn 

 were kft to follow their own sweet will. Two C. elpenor were as nobles 

 amongst a rabble. The last species is new to my list for Gloucestershire. 

 — C. J. Nash ; Pitnacree, Culver Road, Reading, July, 1896. 



