NOTES ON COLLECTING, ETC. 
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are a few Lasiocampa quercifolia larvae about, full fed. I have taken 
three, and various boys have taken eight among them. Altogether 
the season seems a good one. I have taken a fair lot of Orthosia 
upsilon under the willow bark, they squeeze under uncommonly close 
pieces — and yet the ichneumons get at them a great deal. Drepana 
hamula have been very plentiful this year, but they are cruelly wild. — • 
G. M. A. Hewett, The College, Winchester. 
AshtoJi-on-Ribble. — About a month ago I captured a very dark grey 
specimen of Tephrosia crepuscularia {biimdidaria (?) Ed.). I have never 
found one before in this district, but used to take plenty of the creamy 
white ones in the same wood about 50 years ago. At Grange-over-Sands, 
a week later, C. vacd 7 iia?ui and Nepticida woolhopieUa were very plenti- 
ful, and also N. argetitipedeUa. My breeding has been indifferent. 
Mainly a few N. desperatella, N. rubivora^ N sereda, N. luteeUa and 
N. weavereUa. A nice series of Gracdaria ononieda has also come out, 
one Elachista trapezieda and one Cidaria reticulata^ but it is early yet for 
this species. — J. B. Hodgkinson, Ashton-on-Ribble. July 2nd, 1891. 
Chathani District. — On June ist, with Mr. Shelton, in the neighbour- 
hood of Chatham, we captured Anthocaris carda) 7 imes, Pieris 7 iapi, F. 
rapee and Lo 77 iaspilis 77 iarginata (two), and a few days later, by beating, 
Ligdia adustata (above a dozen). At Wigmore on the 8th, I found 
Argynnis euphrosy 7 ie and other common species. Two days later at 
Queensdown Warren, the locality where Mr. Sabine and myself used to 
take so many vars. of Lyccena ado 7 iis, I got next to nothing, and at 
present I have got only one Abraxas id 77 iata. The place is all cut and 
spoiled, scarcely a hedge or bush left. At another locality, however, 
the first brood of LyccB 7 ia adonis swarmed, and several others of this 
genus. I captured in half an hour above two dozen fine specimens, 
similar to those which Mr. Sabine captured, and of which so much was 
written in the Ento 77 iologist about three or four years since under the 
name of bedargus. I found also a beautiful var. of Lyccena adonis, $ . 
Upper side bright blue in the centre, shading off to a deep chocolate 
border and a similarly marked one of Lycce 7 ia alexis. On the 12th at 
Chattenden, I got one Qlielonia pla 7 dagmis, two Scoria dealbata, three 
Procris statices, one A. carda 7 ni 7 ies (the smallest I have ever seen), and 
other common species, also Acidalia re 77 iidata, Asthena candidata and 
Halias prasmana. — J. Tyrer, Chatham. July, 1891. 
Pitcaple, N.B. — There has been too much cold weather this spring to 
have been a good season as yet, but insects are now appearing in 
greater numbers. Up to the present I have seen Va 7 iessa urticce, Pieris 
brassicce, P. rapee, P. napi. Poly 0 771 matus phloeas, Tce 7 iioca 77 ipa stabilis, T. 
i 7 istabilis, T. gothica and var. gothacina, Caloca 77 ipa exoleta, C. vetusta, 
Dasypolia te 77 ipli, Pach 7 iobia rubricosa. Trachea pi 7 iiperda, Larentia 
77 iultistrigaria, Cidaria suffu 77 iata and var. piceata, A 7 iticlea badiata, 
Chesias obliquaria, Selenia ilhmaria, Crocadis bide 7 itata and Fido 7 ua 
at 077 iaria. — A. D. Connon, Woodend Brace. Ju 7 ie ^th, 1891. 
I have been having good sport among the hills, the severe frosts have 
prevented night work but the sun has shone out brightly during the day, 
and in consequence many species have been abundant. In one locality, 
Argyrolepia bau 77 ia 7 i 7 ua 7 ia fairly swarmed ; and among others I have 
taken the following : — Pe 7 dhina ochroleuca 7 ia, P. dunidiana, Euchro 77 ua 
purpurana (2), E. arbutana, in fair numbers, Orthotce 7 iia ericetana, 
