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THE entomologist’s RECORD. 
C7iephasia poliiana abundant, C. ??iusculana, Phoxopteryx unguicella, P. 
7fiyrtiila?ta, P. Iunda 7 ia^ Coccyx cos 77 iophora 7 ta^ C. vacciniaTia, Retinia 
resmanci^ also some of the rarer Tortrices and other things, — W. Reid, 
Perthshire. 
Tullamores — I have been across the bog near Tullamore to-day but 
saw no C(Z 7 i 07 iy 77 ipha davus or Macroglossa bo 7 ?ibylifor 7 nis. One or two 
Anarta inyrtilli^ one Eupithecia satyrata^ some Theda riibi, some 
Saturnia carpmi^ and various common insects. MelitcEa aurinia is 
not out yet. — W. F. de V. Kane, Sloperton Lodge, Kingstown. 
Drymonia chaonia and Cucullia chamomiles at Christchurch. 
— It may be of interest to note that I captured on May 9th a large 
specimen of DrymoTiia chao 7 iia flying at dusk in my garden from which 
I obtained some ova ; also Cucullia cha 77 io 77 iill(z on the evening of the 
nth at laurel blossom close to the same spot. Both are in very fine 
condition, and 1 believe have never been taken in this neighbourhood 
before. — J. M. Adye, Somerford Grange, Christchurch. JuTie if^th, 
1891. 
Agrilus sinuatus in the New Forest. — Last autumn I took 
several specimens of Agrilus sinuatus {dryseis, Curt.) in the New 
Forest. Two of them I have presented to the Hope Collection at the 
University Museum. — E. W. Bowell, Wadham College, Oxford. 
Bombyx rubi. — On the evening of June loth, I found the males of 
this insect flying in numbers on a moor in Inverness. By watching 
their flight I discovered a female in the heather already in cop.^ and 
by taking my station close to her I netted nine males in a few minutes, 
and could doubtless have captured more had I had time to stay longer. 
Her attractive power was evidently not lost with her virginity. — John 
E. Eastwood, Enton Lodge, Witley. 
Notes on Biston hirtaria. — Ova deposited latter part of April, 
hatch in about three weeks (middle of May). The species lays very 
freely in confinement always in cracks, crevices, etc., if available. 
The larva in this neighbourhood feeds normally on lime, but in my garden 
occurs on pear, and in captivity will eat almost anything, e.g.^ hawthorn, 
birch, etc. I have never noticed the imago on anything but lime, 
pear, poplar (once) and hawthorn (a $ worn, so that this would afford 
no clue to its food). The larva does not seem to undergo any 
important changes of coloration, though when young the tints are 
decidedly brighter than afterwards — purplish, ringed (at the segmental 
divisions (?) — I have made no proper description of this larva, and 
write from memory) with bright yellow. Moults five times — approxi- 
mately when ten, nineteen, twenty-eight, thirty-nine and forty-eight days 
old, but some of the same batch grow much more slowly than others. 
They begin going to earth about middle of July, a fortnight after last moult, 
and make no cocoon, not even (at least in captivity) a very fragile one, as 
Dr. Buckell suggested, might possibly in the case. Some go down nearly 
two inches, others turn on the surface of the earth. The imago seems to 
emerge most freely about the middle of April ; I find them most 
abundant from April 15th to 25th, but no doubt weather influences 
them greatly. Of my batch this spring three emerged on March 25th, 
brought about by a S.W. wind. The bulk (except some I forced at a 
moderate temperature in January and February, which mostly produced 
cripples) from April 14 to 28, and one tardy one on May 7. It cop a- 
