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THE entomologist’s record. 
seven were head downwards and fixed by the tail ; the pupae are 
nothing like the rest of the family I have bred, being shaped like a 
whip-top, and the old larval skin hanging like a long tail in every 
case. — H. Alderson, Hilda Vale, Farnboroiigh, 
JVit/iersIack. — Scotosia rhaimiata is another addition to the Westmore- 
land fauna ; Mr. Threlfall and I captured a few in July. We obtained 
about 12 larvae of Depressaria capreolella after several hours’ careful 
searching, and a few of the bladder-like mines of Peritiia obscurepun della 
in honeysuckle which I had never seen till Mr. Threlfall drew my at- 
tention to them. — J. B. Hodgkinson, Ellerslie, Ashton-on-Ribble. 
Armagh. — The season up to the present has been most disappointing. 
Sugar has, night after night, proved a complete failure owing to the 
cold winds, and even favourable evenings failed to produce anything 
remarkable. Amon.^ my captures were : Hade 7 ia pisi^ H. thalassina, 
Nodua rubi, JV. fesfiva, Gonoptera libatrix.^ Grammesia irigranunica, 
and var. obscuni., Tutt, Mia/ia strlgilis and M. fasduncula. These last 
were not at all as abundant as usual, but exhibited considerable varia- 
tion. The most were taken on June 22nd and 23rd. On July 3rd, I 
took a specimen of M. strlgilis on a thistle-head in the afternoon. 
ZygcBna appeared in numbers on June 27th, when I took a lot 
of freshly-emerged specimens. The PlusicB, which are usually well 
represented in my garden in June, were conspicuous by their absence; 
only a solitary P. ganwia turning up. On July 27th and 28th I took a 
good number of Bryophila perla on the walls of the Cathedral. Just 
now TripluE 7 ia promiba and Xylopliasia 7 uonoglypha are in great abund- 
ance, a few dark examples of the latter have occurred. I have, I think, 
never seen as many “small whites ” in one place as I saw in a field of 
oats on last Sunday morning, as I was driving out to take the duty at 
Loughgall. There must have been hundreds of them hovering over and 
settling on the oats, I could not stop to determine whether one or 
more species were present. Taken as a whole the season from the end 
of May to the present has been decidedly bad, and w^ere it not for the 
consolations afforded by Coleoptera and golf, I should be on the verge 
of despair. — W. F. Johnson, Winder Teraace, Armagh. August 19M, 
1891. [The “whites” — Pieris rapoe.^ 7 iapi and brassiccB — have been in 
great force at Deal during the last week. — E d.] 
Ly/idliurst. — A fortnight spent at Lyndhurst last month produced far 
better results than a longer period last season. Although the weather 
w’as not a great deal better than during the corresponding period of 
1890, lepidoptera were much more plentiful and some good species 
w’ere taken. Unfortunately, how’ever, sugar was again of but little use, 
and the list of Nocture taken is consequently very meagre. During 
the few fine days that w'e had, Rhopalocera sw_armed. Lwie 7 iitis sibylla 
and Argy 7 i 7 iis paphia w’ere very common, and I took four specimens of 
the var. valezma ; but although E. ja 7 iira w^as as c jmmon as ever, I 
only saw one of the bleached forms, and that did not exhibit the varia- 
tion to any great degree. LyccB 7 ia agon was in full force on all the 
heaths. I captured one extremely small $ , as small as a typical L. 
alsus { 77 ii 7 ii 77 ia). Theda que 7 xus w^as very common over oak and ash, 
but mostly kept out of reach. The best butterfly that I took, however, 
was Apatura iris, of wTich I took tw^o $ ’s on July 26th ; one of these 
after much coaxing deposited twenty-five ova wdiich are now hatching. 
