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tioned as havinf^ been obsorved at Cardiff on that date, and I have 

 been informed of flights of Ihnist/wrpea species which occurred on 

 that day at Penge, Forest Tlill, Streatham, Walhngton. Woking, 

 Reckenham, East Farleigh, Brockley, 8t. Helens, Isle of Wight, and 

 Lynton in Devonshire. My son also informs me that he saw numbers 

 of winged ants at Abbeville in France about that date. 



In my garden at Putney Jhniistlioy/icd iiiiira and IK /lava were 

 swarming from about 4.30 onwards, and they occurred all over Fulham, 

 Putney, and Barnes, Later in the evening I captured two deiilatod 

 D. iiDihrafa 9 $ near the entrances to nests of P. nif/ra in a road 

 close by. I enclosed them in a box, when the one female killed the 

 other by cutting off its head. 



I should be glad if any of our readers will record marriage-flights 

 from localities and counties not mentioned in the above two notes. 



In connection with the colony-founding of species of this genns I 

 may mention that a large number of small imibrata ^ ? have at last 

 been brought up (this year) in my captive colony of D. ah'fua obtained 

 at Wevbridge on Julv 10th, 1912, which accepted a f>. mnhrota 9 on 

 July 27th, 1913. 



My Ihmi^thnrjn'a fiili(iinnm ? died on August 29th last ; she had 

 been accepted into a colony of />. ini.rto-ninhrata (strengthened with 

 ? 5 of I>. iiiiihrata) on August 11th, 1912. All the^? ? in this 

 colony had gradually died oft', so on August 27th I went to Woking 

 and obtained a large numbf r of fresh /). umhrata ^ ^ . The 7). 

 fiilii/innxa $ was accepted by the new ^ ^ , she was very weak and 

 died, as before stated, on the 29th, though not from injuries, 



[Morice and Durrant have shown that Lasiia^, Fabricius, sinks as 

 a homonym of the earlier Laniiis, Jurine. a genus of bees, A new 

 name being necessary for § La.<<iiiii, F., they proposed that of Donis- 

 thorpea. adopting ni(ira as the type Vl'ram. Knt. Snr. Li)}td., 1914, 421- 

 423 (1915)1.— H. J. T.] 



r^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Phryxus LivoRNicA IN Britain. — Apparently this species is quite 

 established in its western habitat. For some years past now it has 

 been regularly obtained and by no means as odd specimens. Man}' of 

 the specimens captured are in excellent condition and evidently have 

 emerged in this country. — H.J.T. 



Cklastrina ak'jIolus in London. — This species appears to be get- 

 ting more abundant in the London suburbs year by year. Reports are 

 continually being made of its occurrence in fresh spots as well as notes 

 on its reappearance where it has previously been seen. On July 2Gth, 

 'while walking up Holborn somewhat after mid-day, I saw a male of 

 ('. an/iolns threading its way among the trattic. Of course this was 

 a second brood specimen. In the same week specimens were fre- 

 quently seen Hying across my own garden at New Cross. — H.J.T. 



Kksting posirioN of Eupithecia oblongata (centaureata). — Recently 

 my son found on the stem of a twig of a nut-bush in the garden, about 

 the calibre of a thin pencil, a pair of /<.'. ohlontiata in cop. He was 

 attracted by the appearance of a white " bird's dirt " enfolding the 

 stem. The wings were stretched out in the usual "pug "attitude along 

 the stem so that the two insects were "looking each other in the face" 



