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of doubtilig ones, I authorise trhe Editor of the Ent. Record to 

 select one of these to visit me early on Saturday, June 25th, to put to 

 the test what I have stated, with only two conditions imposed, viz., he 

 must be a bona fide lepidopterist, and he shall print the result in the 

 next issue of Tits Entomulofjist's Record, whether it be for or against me. 

 I think this is fair. Some one may say, but the pupae may be too high 

 to see ! Granted. But if so, they are too high to "beat," but my 

 experience shows me that there will be more pupae within reach than 

 any true lepidopterist will ever want to take. Here briefly is the result 

 of my first attempt with " eyes rt';-s».s stick." Plenty of pupse were 

 discovered at a height of from 7 to 14 feet. Those out of reach were 

 secured thus : an ash sapling was procured, the blade of my pocket 

 knife was fastened open with string at an angle of 30*^, and tied to 

 one end of it. With this I easily severed the stalk of the leaf, which 

 sailed quietly down to the ground or into my net ready to receive it. — 

 Gborge B. Dixon, S. Peter's Road, Leicester. 



A mTHERTO UNRECORDED SPECIMEN OF DeTOPEIA PULCHELLA. It 



may possibly interest your readers to know that Mr. M'Lean, of 

 Harrow school, took a fine female specimen of Deiopeia pulchella at 

 the end of June or beginning of July, 1896, near Harrow. — N. C. 

 Rothschild, F.Z.S., F.E.S., Trinity College, Cambridge. 



Strange resting-place of Asphalia flavicornis. — Yesterday, 

 while searching in one of our large oak woods (where birch is quite 

 scarce) for Amphidasys strataria, my wife found a freshly emerged 

 specimen of Aspludia fiavicornis, at rest on an oak trunk. This tree 

 was in the midst of thick brushwood of five or six years' growth. 

 Surely this is a somewhat unusual place to find this moth. — Percy C. 

 Reid, F.E.S., Feering Bury, Kelvedon, Essex. April 1st., 1898. 



The eakly spring of 1898. — The season here was early until things 

 were checked by the recent spell of cold weather. I find the following 

 first appearances noted: — Jan. 20th: Hybernia leucophaearia ; Jan. 

 21st : H. marginaria (a very worn $ ) ; Jan. 22nd : Phif/alia pedaria ( <? ) , 

 H. rupicapraria (3 (J), Tortricodes hyemana (males); Jan. 26th: 

 Larentia midtistrigaria {$) ; Feb. 10th : Asinopteryx aescularia ; Feb. 

 11th: Aviphidasys strataria {$); Feb. 12th: Dasycampa ruhiyinea 

 (hybernated), Nyssia hispidaria (3^) ; Feb. 14th : Taeniocampa 

 gothica ( <? ) ; Feb. 16th : Xylina areola (3 $ and 1 ? ) ; Feb. 18th : 

 Diurnaeafagella [3) ; March 15th, at sugar : T. mimda, T. 2mlveru- 

 lenta, Xylina ornithopus, Orrhodia vaccinii, and Scopelosoma satellitia ; 

 March 16th: Eupithecia abbreviata ; March 17th : Selenia hilunaria (c? ); 

 March 18th : Pieris rapae. — E. F. Studd, M.A., F.E.S., Oxton, 

 Exeter. 



Lepidoptera in South Devon in 1897. — Last season was un- 

 doubtedly a good one in South Devon. I went down on the first 

 Monday in August, and remained for three weeks, the last fortnight 

 being the most productive. Caradrina ambigua occurred in some 

 numbers. Is this species becoming more common, or has it remained 

 undiscovered in its Devonshire haunts all these years until Mr. 

 Woodforde and myself turned it up in 1896 ? It must be more than 

 30 years since I first worked South Devon, and have been working it 

 at intervals ever since, but then I have generally been there in July, 

 and, until 1896, never after the first week in August, so that I cannot 

 give any opinion on the subject. I was talking to an old entomologist 



