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fai' as one can remember, there was a clump of large trees, possibly 

 oaks {(Jiicrciis), at the entrance. 



I see Kirby gives May and June as the regular months when T. 

 pnn-esniiinea feeds [IhittcrtUes and Mollis of Eiirojie), SO conclude Feb- 

 ruary must be very early for it. He also gives night as its feeding- 

 time — but the hour, on this date, was about 2.30 p.m. 



It may possibly have been the next species described 'J'hautnatopoea 

 pityocaiiifia, W.V. (p. 143), but the description of the larvie agrees 

 rather with the former than with the latter species. 



" Thaiiiiiato})oea [CnetJiocanipa) jirocessionea, L. — Larvae is bluish- 

 black on back, and wliitisJi on sides, with two small reddish -yellow or 

 grey warts on each segment." 



" Thaiiiiiato/ioea iiitijurainjia, W.V. — Larva is bluish-black above, 

 with a brownish-yellow transverse projection on each segment, and 

 tcliitis/i beneath." {Cf. p. 142, liutterfHes and Moths of Europe, W. F. 

 Kirby.) — Lilian M. Fison, Southcote, Guildford. 



Hibernation in a Church. — One Sunday during the morning- 

 service in October last (1914), my father, Mr. J. H. Fison, observed an 

 Ai/lais (Vanessa) urticae on a north window in St. Mary's Church, 

 Guildford. This morning — Sunday, February 21st — I observed one 

 on a south window of the same Church, which by the way dates back 

 to the Conquest, and conclude from this that it v\'as the same insect 

 which had spent the winter there. 



The sun was shining brightly, and the, window caught the full 

 force of a warmer mid-day sun than we have had for weeks, probably 

 bringing the butterfly out. It seemed a very lobust insect and fluttered 

 energetically to escape into the sunshine outside, evidently not under- 

 standing why a window-pane should be transparent and yet the barrier 

 that it unfortunately so effectively proved. — Id. 



Hibernation of Vespa vulgaris 5 . — A "Queen Wasp" was found 

 by my mother, hibernating behind a picture-frame, a few days before 

 Christmas. She states it seemed attached to the wall by some sort of 

 thread, after the manner of some pupa'. I do not suppose there is 

 anything unusual in this fact — but as a locality for hibernation it is 

 at least interesting. — Id. 



Records of Coleopteka for South Wales district. — During 

 April, 1914, I was staying at St. David's, Pembrokeshire, at the 

 extremity of West Wales. The country lies wide open. There 

 are great stretches of rough moorland, large tracts of marsh, and a 

 highly indented cliff line, with a small area of sand-burrows in one of 

 the larger bays. The district is, I think, certainly a fine hunting 

 ground for the collecting of beetles. The most productive localities 

 discovered by me were a big stretch of marshland known as Dowrog 

 Moss, a similar but smaller area round Trefeithan Pool, and the 

 boggy bed of the river Alan, known as Merry Vale. The following 

 notes of species taken in this little known district may be of interest. 



Carabid.t;. — Carabus arvensis occurred on the moorland, but was 

 scarce; JJlethisa inulti punctata occurred on Dowrog Moss and at Tre- 

 feithan ; Chlaenins niffvicornis, Stoinis puniicatns, I'terostiehus lernalis 

 and P. uiinor, all on Dowrog Moss. Anvhotnenus viduns was abundant 

 at Dowrog and Trefeithan; A. piceus far less numerous; Aniara 

 anthohia was common on the burrows along with A. lucida ; Amara 



