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Mr. Newman remarked that Acpiadcs t/iftis was in thousands in 

 North Kent, and was a grand sight, the whole hill-sides were 

 coloured with them. Some twenty-five years ago it was equally 

 abundant in the same area, but in the intervening period had been 

 very uncertain in its appearance and had practically disappeared. 



The Eev. F. D. Morice had spent a fortnight at Swanage and a 

 fortnight at Brockenhurst, returning on July 6th. During the 

 whole time the weather was quite unsuitable for Hymenoptera, 

 cold and windy at Swanage, incessant rain on several days and 

 very little sunshine on others in the New Forest. He had taken 

 one good species at Studland, viz., a male of the very rare 

 Miscuphiis )iiaritiiiitis, hitherto recorded only from Deal. Liuienitis 

 sibilla was pretty abundant on one day in the New Forest. A 

 wounded officer whom Mr. Morice had met had taken seven fine 

 examples. Several members reported that the larvje of this species 

 had been very scarce for some time past. 



The Rev. F. M. B. Carr communicated the following " Notes on 

 Collecting in Staffordshire in early July 1916." 



" I have had a much better week this week, but the weather has 

 been pretty awful on the whole. However * It's an ill wind, etc.,' 

 for although many of the days have been bad, it has helped things 

 at night as the moon has been hidden. Now the weather seems ta 

 be improving a bit so of course we are getting the moon at night. 

 We ' bug-hunters ' are hard to please. 



" I went out sugaring when I arrived on Monday. The weather 

 had been very wet during the day, and there were heavy clouds and 

 thunder about at night. I had studied the Staffordshire List 

 before coming, and saw that somebody had taken many Aplecta 

 tincta at sugar in Burnt Wood, so 1 was hoping to get a few, as it 

 appeared from the books to be about the right time for it. The 

 great question was, ' Would sugar be any good ? ' Well to make 

 a long story short things swarmed at sugar and sure enough there 

 was A. tincta. I took over 30 that night, and could probably have 

 taken another 30 if I had wished — gloriously fresh ones too. It is a 

 lovely thing when fresh. Other species at sugar were Tricmn jisi, 

 Phaietra niiiiicis (incl*tiding 1 ab. salicis), 2 or 3 Ci/iiiatoj>h(»a 

 dui)lari>i, Xylophania monofjbjpha (polijodoii), A', riirea, Leacania 

 comma, Miana strif/ilis, Riisina tenehrosa, Af/rotis e.vdainationis, A. 

 seijetuiii, A. striynla {porphyrea), 4 Aplecta prasina {herbida), A. 

 nebidusa, yoctua plecta, N. aiujur, x\. festica, Ajuviiea (jeiiiina, 

 Manu'stra thalaaaina, M. uleracca, M. trifidii [rlicnoptnlii), 2 .1/. pisi. 



