234 THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



[December 



about twenty special outings I have only had two that could be called 

 failures, and these unfortunately were three days excursions. One 

 was to St. Leonard's Forest, Horsham, and the other to Red Hill, 

 both good districts. These trips were made in the beginning of 

 August, and even common macros w T ere not obtainable. Butterflies 

 were not at all plentiful through the season except S. tithonus, A. 

 galatea, and the newly detected H. lineola. Of the first named I took 

 a specimen partly bleached, but unfortunately somewhat worn. The 

 larvae of the commoner species of the genus Noctua, pine feeders, 

 autumn oak and birch feeders, N. cuculatella, &c, were very plentiful, 

 whilst the Chenopodium literally swarmed with the larvae of the eight 

 or ten species that usually frequent it. — H. J. Turner, 13 Drakefell 

 Road. Hatcham, S.E. 



Liparis Dispar. — In an old volume of the Young Naturalist there 

 are some remarks as to the doubtfulness of Dispar being now to be 

 found at large in England, whatever may have been the case formerly. 

 It may be met with however in two places now and not in small 

 numbers either. One is in the New forest, and the other on a Com- 

 mon near London, and not seventeen miles from Wimbledon." If not 

 native how did they get there. ? — J. Henderson, Streatham. 

 *01d Song. — " From Wimbledon to Wombledon is seventeen miles. 



Cerastis vaccinii and spadicea. — A quantity of these insects 

 were lately exhibited, and the question was discussed as to there 

 being two species or only one. Some said there were no Spadicea at 

 all in Britain. I would like to know the opinion of collectors in the 

 North.— Id. 



Polia Chi emerging in Spring. — Mr. L. S. Brady, of Sunder- 

 land, has sent for my examination a specimen of Polia chi, the larva of 

 which he obtained, along with those of several species of Tceniocampa, 

 by beating sallows in 1888, at Arthog, in North Wales. The moths 

 did not emerge in August or September, as usual, but came out in the 

 spring of 1889 with the Taniocampce. The specimen sent me is of the 

 darker grey variety, which, I believe, has no varietal name yet, but 

 which I have always known as the Yorkshire form. When an insect 

 that ought to emerge in autumn remains over the winter in pupa, it 

 generally remains till the usual period for emergence the next year. 

 I have always known Polia chi to pass the winter in the egg. — John E. 

 Robson, Hartlepool. 



