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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Heliothis armigera imported with Tomatoes.— On June 4th I 

 received about twenty nearly full-grown larvae that had been found among 

 Valencia tomatoes. They were very combative in confinement. The larger 

 seize the smaller ones, and throw them two and three inches away. They 

 \pere kept out of doors. I touched one with my little finger; it turned 

 sharply round and bit me, causing slight pain, but did not break the skin. 

 The surviving larvae had all gone down by June 17th. I reared only seven 

 moths: they appeared on July 17th, ISth, 19th, 20th (two), Slst, and 

 25th. On Sept. 24th I received one larva (second brood, I suppose) which 

 had been imported with Lisbon tomatoes. — J. Arkle ; Chester. 



Rhopalocera in Essex. — On July 19th I saw five Euchloe cardamines 

 (males) flying along the railway bank oif Leigh, all in good condition. On 

 the same date Vanessa polychloros was fairly common between Southend 

 and Shoeburyness ; but as they kept well out of reach I was unable to take 

 any. I saw only one specimen of V. io ; but Pararge megoera was plentiful, 

 also Hesperia thaumas. — G. R. Garland; 94, Sedgwick Road, Leyton. 



Abnormal Specimen of Nemkophila plantaginis. — I should like to 

 record the breeding of an abnormity of iV. plantagbiis, in which the hind 

 pair of legs are replaced by miniature wings. — W. Woodward; 112, 

 Northumberland Park, Tottenham, N., Sept. 10, 1896. 



Uropteryx sambucaria in October. — I was much surprised while 

 passing a street lamp here, on Oct. 2nd, to see a specimen of U. sambucaria 

 clinging to the glass. Mr. Bird mentions having bred this species on Sept. 

 17th (Entom. xxvi. 303). It seems therefore evident that in suitable seasons 

 a certain proportion of the larvae of U. sambucaria do not hybernate, but 

 produce imagines the same year, as is the case with many other species 

 which usually hybernate in the larval stage. — Alfred Sigh ; Villa Ama- 

 linda, Burlington Lane, Chiswick, Oct. 5th, 1896. 



Emergence of Smerinthus populi in August. — I had a fine fresh 

 S. populi sent me from Rhyl on Aug. 12th. It is a good-sized male, paler 

 and much less strongly marked than the specimens which emerged in my 

 breeding-pots on May 12th, 16th, 22nd, 23rd, and June 4th, 11th, and 

 25ih. — J. Arkle ; Chester. 



Smerinthus populi in September. — A female specimen of this species 

 was taken at Macclesfield, in Cheshire, during the first week of September. 

 She deposited a batch of infertile ova. — Richard South. 



Emergence of Eupithecia pulchellata in August. — On July 23rd 

 I picked about thirty full-grown larvae from foxglove flowers in Delamere 

 Forest. A fine imago emerged on Aug. 21st. — J. Arkle; Chester. 



Parasites of Pachnobia alpina. — I have just returned from Rannoch, 

 and have bred, from infested pupae given to me by Mr. Salvage, a male and 

 female of an Ichneumon allied to, or a variety of, Amblyteles uniguttatus, 

 Grav., and several of a Pteromalus, apparently a new species somewhat 

 allied to P. catillus, Walk. — C. W. Dale ; Glanvilles Wootton, July 6th. 



Hemiptera-Heteroptera at Light. — Last year, at Offley, near 

 Hitchin, on Aug. 22nd, during a heavy thunder-storm, a specimen of 

 Corixa striata flew into a room, evidently attracted by the light. This 

 year, during June, a species of Psallus (probably varians or variabilis, from 

 an oak tree close by), and on Sept. 16th a specimen oi Lygus pabulinus 



