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holiflays (it St. Margaret's Bay I made a careful list of beetles I intended to search for, 

 one of them being llypera tigrina. I am jjlad to siiy I found it in fair numbers on the 

 wild carrot {Daucus carota) growing at tiie foot of the chalk cliffs on the northern 

 side of the bay. I took my first specimen on August 25th, and it was still to be found, 

 though in scantier numbers, when I left on September .'jth. Messrs. Donisthorpe 

 and Chitty came over, and each secured a good series of the insect, which, judging 

 from the requests I have had for specimens, must be rare in our collections. — T. 

 Hudson Beake, 10. Regent Terrace, Edinburgh : September \&th, 1907. 



Apion semioittatum, Gi/IL, at, St. Margaret's Bay. — In the September issue of 

 this Magazine (p. 208) Mr. Or. E. Bryant records the capture of a specimen of this 

 species on the Deal Sandhills on June I7th last, and asks if there is any record of 

 the capture of this insect since it was taken by Mr. Walton, over 60 years ago, at 

 Margate. The answer is yes ; it was swept up by Messrs. Chitty and Tomlin in 

 1905 on the Deal Sandhills. I included this insect therefore in my holiday list, and 

 began at once to search for its food-plant, Mercurialis annua. Mr. Donisthorpe, 

 who was spending his holidays at Deal, was also on the look out for it. I was 

 lucky enough soon to find the plant, and got the insect at once in scanty numbers, 

 and Mr. Donisthorpe immediately afterwards discovered both plant and insect at 

 Deal and in greater numbers. The plant is apparently very fond of old potato 

 gardens, but it is then usually unproductive ; plants growing by the sides of hedges, 

 and even on the shore, were much more productive of the beetle. I was able to 

 verify what Canon Fowler says of its life-history, by finding a specimen in the pupal 

 state in a knot of a very large ])lant growing in a garden in the village. The species 

 evidently makes it appearance in the perfect state in the autumn ; it was getting 

 more common when I came away on September 3rd, and it required a lot of work 

 to get specimens when it was first discovered on August 26th. — Id. 



Rediscovery of My el oh cirriyerella in Wilts. — In vol. xi, p. 2.37, of this Maga- 

 zine I recorded the original capture of several specimens of this species at Ramsbury, 

 Wilts., in 1874. I am not aware that it has been taken by any one else in the 

 interval, and have often puzzled myself in vain with endeavours to guess a possible 

 origin for those specimens. Judge, then, my surprise when my own son, E. E. 

 Meyrick, now a boy at Marlborough College, brought to me for identification a very 

 fresh example of Myelois cirrigerella on July 20th, beaten out from a larch tree in 

 Savernake Forest, about two miles from Marlborough. This locality is about five 

 miles from the original one, and of a totally different nature, and as there are few 

 plants common to the two, and those only such as are also very common throughout 

 Britain, the question of the food-plant is still very puzzling. There are two or three 

 possible clues which I purpose to follow ; but I should certainly be glad of a little 

 more light. However, I think it is now established that the species has undoubtedly 

 been existing in the neighbourhood all these years, and we ought to be able to solve 

 the problem presently. — E. Meyrick, Thornhanger, Marlborough : Aug. 19///, 1907. 



Occurrence of Oelechia streliciella, H.-S., in the Highlands.— \\h\\e at Aviemore 

 for a few days in June, 1905, 1 observed several specimens of a Oelechia among heather 

 that had been burnt the previous year, which appeared to be unknown to me. It 



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