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speeies as one which I beliered T had repeatedly seen diiringf the last twenty yeavs 

 or more in a very restricted area near this town, T worked specially for it in June 

 and July last year, and was fortunate enough to obtain a good series. Many of 

 these specimens hare since been submitted to Dr. Cassal and Mr. Morton, and have 

 been returned by them as C. domalis. In the one restricted locality in which I 

 obtained nearly all my specimens by beating Scotch fir trees, I did not find a single 

 specimen of C. perla. In another promising locality some sis or seven miles 

 distant, I obtained two C. doi'xaUx (both, I believe, from Scotch fir), whereas 

 C. perla simply swarmed in the old sallows and birches A description of 

 C. domalis is given by McLachlan in the Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxxvii, p. 39, 

 when the species was added by him to the British list on the strength of a single 

 specimen taken in 1900 at Oxshott, Surrey, by Mr. Beaumont. C. dorsali.s is much 

 like C. perla, as McLachlan states, and is liable to be confounded therewith, 

 and at first I had some diiBculty in separating the two species, but on further 

 examination of a long series of both species, I now find little or no trouble. The 

 black sub-costa and the broad unbroken black margin on either side of the pronotura 

 of C. dorxalis, with other differences given by McLachlan in his description, 

 will, I think, enable any one to distinguish between these two closely allied species. 

 My thanks are due to Mr. Morton and Dr. Cassal for the assistance they have so 

 kindly given me by determining this and other Neuroptera sent to them. — E. A. 

 Atmoee, King's Lyini, Norfolk : January \Uh, 1907. 



Isole on NothocTiri/sa capitata, F. — I had the good fortune to take a single 

 specimen of this somewhat scarce insect in West Norfolk on June 8th, 1904, and 

 another on June 7th, 1906. The first was obtained from Scotch, and the second 

 from Spruce fir. It is strange that this conspicuous species should continue to be 

 so uncommon with us. I have been on the look out for it for some years ; indeed, 

 ever since Mr. C G-. Barrett captured two specimens here some years ago, but 

 I have never met with more than the two .specimens which I now record. — Id. 



William John Burchell : the materials of a Lecture delivered before the 

 Bi'itish Association in the Town Hall, Cape Town, August 17th, 1905 : by Edwaed 

 B. PouLTON, D.Sc, M.A., F.R.S., &c., Hope Professor of Zoology in the University 

 of Oxford. With a Portrait (Report of the British and South African Associations, 

 1905, vol. iii, pp. 57-110). London : Spottiswoode and Co., Ltd. 1907. 



In this able and deeply interesting discourse, Prof. Poulton has done good 

 service in reviving the almost forgotten memory of a man who was not only " one 

 of the most learned and accomplished travellers of any age or country," but also an 

 Entomological observer of a very high order. William John Burcliell was born at 

 Fulham in or about the year 1782, and was already an assiduous collector of British 

 insects when he left England for St. Helena in 1805. In this remote oceanic island, 

 made classic ground in later years by the researches of Wollaslon, he found solace 

 in his troubles in forming collections of the endemic plants and insects. The original 

 example of the fine and very remarkable Carabid beetle, Haploihorax burchclU, 



