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Cotswolds to the Severn Valley, settling, as he described the Skippers 

 in the Alps in the last issue of the F. N. Q., on sand recently deposited 

 by an overflowing side stream over the lane." — W. Mellersh, The 

 Gryphons, Cheltenham. 



With reference to Mr Mellersh's above letter, Mr Rowland-Brown 

 writes: "With regard to your correspondent's note re Migration there 

 is a series of papers still in progress on the subject in the ' Entomologist's 

 Record,' by Mr J. W. Tutt, who is collecting all the evidence available 

 on the subject. It seems to me that unless the species is identified it is 

 difficult to say whence it may have come. But probably these insects 

 were blown yiolens volens from the African coast, if they were not part 

 of a migratory swarm. Some LyccE7iids migrate ; notably Lainpides 

 bcriicus, the Long - tailed Blue, which occurs in Africa, Asia, and 

 Australia, and sometimes penetrates as far north as England, being 

 taken in 1899 in some quantities in the Channel Islands. A specimen 

 exhibited by Mr H. W. Shepheard-Walwyn, on June 5 at a meeting of 

 the Entomological Society, was caught at Winchester in that year. But 

 it is interesting to note that those observed and taken in the Channel 

 Islands in 1899 were almost entirely confined to the male sex." 



" Can you or any of your readers give a full copy of Dr Jenner's 

 poetical weather rhymes, one stanza of which was quoted in the ' British 

 Medical Journal ' for July 5 ? " — " Squid." 



" Is it of common occurrence for weasels .to hunt moles in their runs 

 from 6 to 8 inches underground ? A few days ago I visited some mole- 

 traps with a friend, and in one of the traps was caught a weasel. The 

 wire noose had closed on him nearer the tail than the head ; the weasel 

 had then turned and the head and tail were touching outside the barrel 

 of the trap." — -Thomas Thompson, Winlaton. 



" May I ask if you or any of your readers know if there is any record 

 in hand, or completed, of the boulders or erratics of Norfolk ? Basalt 

 and granite boulders are common in this district, and I should be glad 

 to put my pupils on their cycles by way of helping such a record. 

 They would locate the boulders ; we — my colleagues and myself — would 

 afterwards go and verify and break off hand specimens for any properly 

 constituted body undertaking the record." — Harry Lowerison (Principal, 

 Ruskin School-Home, Heacham-on-Sea). 



(We know of no such record : but the county field clubs would doubt- 

 less gladly record such observations in Transactions, and probably there 

 are museums in the county that would like a series of such specimens. 

 —Ed. F. N. Q.) 



" I would be very glad if you could tell me of an active Field 

 Naturalist Club within reach of one living at Twickenham. I have been 

 unable to hear of such a club." — B., Twickenham. 



(We shall be glad to put this correspondent in communication with any 

 secretary in the district named, who will write for his address. — Ed.) 



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