IJO NOTES ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. 



Ebulea sambucalis. Not uncommon in garden. 



Pionea forncalis. Very common in garden. 



Scopula olivalis. Common in garden and Forest. 



S. prunalis. Common in garden and Forest. 



S. ferrugalis. Not uncommon in Forest. 



Stenopteryx hybridalis. Common in Forest. 



Of the remaining species of this tribe and of the Crambites I havt 

 not sufificiently complete records ; nor is my recollection of captures 

 sufficiently distinct to make the list trustworthy. I prefer, therefore, 

 to leave its completion to later collectors better acquainted with the 

 species than I was at the time covered by my notes. I can only add 

 that many species of Eudorea were common ; that Phycis roborella 

 was occasionally taken on the wing in the Forest, and Pempelia 

 palumbella in the same localities, flying over the heathy parts. Of 

 the genus Cramhus, the beautiful C. pinetellus is a noteworthy 

 Forest species. I have also taken Aphomia sociella commonly in 

 the Forest ; and once a specimen of Galleria cerella at rest by day 

 on a fence, bearing a most remarkable resemblance to a raised splinter 

 of wood. 



The list now presented, although confessedly incomplete, will, it 

 is hoped, serve as a basis for the more complete catalogue which in 

 time it will be possible to draw up from the joint observations of all 

 those who have collected in the district. 



NOTES— ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. 



Bottle-nose Whales in the Thames. — Two male specimens of this whale 

 {^Hyperoodon rostrattis) occurred in the Thames at the end of July — one near the 

 Nore lightship, which was towed into Leigh, and one near the entrance to Bark- 

 ing Creek. Our member, Dr. Murie, has made a careful examination of the Leigh 

 specimen, and has promised to communicate a paper on it to the Club, and Mr. 

 Crouch will append a few remarks on the Barking example. 



Short-eared Owls in Essex in May. — Mr. F. Kerry, of Harwich, writes as 

 follows to the " Zoologist " : — " Whilst looking for the nests of some gulls, Larus 

 ridihundus^ on the bentlings near Walton-on-the-Naze, on Whit-Monday last, I 

 flushed a short-eared owl. It had just killed a black-headed gull, and had com- 

 menced to pluck and eat it ; the blood was flowing from the dead bird. Being 

 very fearless, it did not fly more than ten yards at a time ; most probably it was 



