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freely. Associated willi the Ch were a mimber of other hark spocios, siicli as 

 Homalota cuspidata, II. immersa, Phhtopora reptana, &c. — F. H. Day, 151, 

 Q-ordon Terrace, Carlisle : May, 1907. 



Enicmusfungicoln, T'/zoh).?.— With regard to this interesting species, introduced 

 to our list by Mr. Newbery in last month's Ent. Mo. Matj. (pp. 103-101), I should 

 put on record the capture of a specimen by myself so long ago as May 10th, 1901, 

 from a fungus growing on an ash tree near Langwathby, in the Eden valley. This 

 locality is about two miles from Edenhall, where Mr. Critten met with his little 

 colony in 190G. My specimen was accidentally overlooked until Mr. Britten gave 

 me some of his a little while ago. — Id. 



Ceuthorrhj/nchus pllosellu.i, Gt/IL, cf"c., near Oxford. — On May lllh, I found a 

 single example of the apparently very rare weevil, Ceiithorrhynchiu pilosellas, Gyll., 

 in a small sandpit at the edge of a wood near Tubney ; at the time of capture I mis- 

 took it for the common C maryinalH.f, Payk., and did not realize my good fortune 

 until my bottle was turned out at home. Rhinomacer attelaboides, F., a species 

 which is evidently extending its range southward, occurred singly by sweeping under 

 some well-grown Scotch firs ; and the capture, among many other local species 

 already recorded from Tubney, of Homalota tesfaceipes, Heer, Megacronus cingu- 

 latus, Mann., Trachys pumila, 111., Fhytcecia cyIi7idrica,Jj., Longitar.ius agilis, Rye, 

 Bravhytarsiis varius, F., Miaru.i plantarum, Germ, (not rare), Ceutkorrhynchiditis 

 chevrolati, Bris., Hyleshiiis oleiperda, F., &c., testifies to the excellence of the day 

 as well as to that of the locality. — James J. Walkee, Aorangi, Lonsdale Road, 

 Summertown, Oxford : May \Qth, 1907. 



Paltodora strlatella, HI., in East Dernn. — Among some Lepidoplera recently 

 received for identification from Dr. A. Sharpin I was greatly interested to find two 

 specimens of Paltodora .itriafelta, lib., which, together with a third, were secured 

 by him in East Devon during August last. The distribution of this species in 

 Britain, where it appears to be very local and decidedly scarce, is given in Meyrick's 

 Handbook Brit. Lep., p. 572 (1895), as " Kent to Hants and Cambridge," but it 

 had been previously recorded from outside the area thus indicated, for, in Lep. Dors., 

 p. 54 (1886), the late Mr. C. W. Dale chronicled the capture by himself of " a 

 couple " of examples — a correction of the " single specimen only " entered in his 

 Hist. Glan. Woot., p. 225 (1878)— at Glanvilles Wootton, Dorset, on August 3rd, 

 1870. But, to the best of my belief, P. striatella, of which the larva lives at first 

 in the flower-heads, and afterwards in the stems, of tansy (Tanacetum vitlgare, L.), 

 had never been found so far west as I Devonshire until Dr. Sharpin took it there last 

 summer, and his specimens are certainly the only modern ones among the few 

 British individuals that have come under my notice. It will be seen from Stau- 

 dinger and Rebel's "Catalog" that this species is the tanacetella of Schranck, 

 Rossler, and von Heinemann, while tlie striatella of these last two authors, and of 

 Herrich-Schiiffer, is quite distinct from the subject of this note. The larva of 

 P. anthemidella, Wck. {striatella, H.-S., Rossi., Hein., has been recorded as feeding 

 on Anthemis cotula, A. tinctoria, and Chrysanthemum corymbosum, on the con- 

 tinent, but the insect is not known to occur in this country. — Eustace R. Bankes, 

 Norden, Corfe Castle : May lUh, 1907. 



