9fj4. [November, 



Amongst Coleoptera the most interesting captures were Drifpta dentata, Ross., 

 by sweeping long grass on the cliffs of Sandown Bay, and Aphanisticus emarginatus, 

 F., by sweeping rushes in Parkhurst Forest, the locality where Mr. Donisthorpe 

 originally discovered the species. — E. .1. nuTLEii, 56, Ceeile Park, Crouch End : 

 Ootober Uh, 1907. 



Formica exsecta, Ni/L, in the Isle of Wight. — While collecting Hemiptera in 

 Parkliurst Forest, I. W., I took occasionally a number of red-headed ants, without 

 paying particular attention to them at the time, but hoping that F. sanguinea 

 might be amongst them. On reaching homo and examining them with the aid of 

 books and collections, I was delighted to find amongst them a $ of Formica exsecta 

 Nyl. This is a new locality for this rare species, which has previously been recorded 

 only from Bournemouth and a few other places in the South of England. I have 

 to thank Mr. Edward Saunders for kindly confirming my identification. — Id. 



Lepidoptera from street lamps, Sfc, at Ouildford and Woking. — My brother 

 and I have spent much of our spare time this year in searching the street lamps for 

 Lepidoptera at Guildford and Woking. The former place was worked more 

 thoroughly, but only during the day, and among the species secured there many are 

 worth mentioning. Tlie P.^eudo- Bombyces were particularly well represented, the 

 following having been found in or on the lamps :— Dicranura furcula, L., and D. 

 bifida, Hb., one of each, D. vinula, L., fairly common ; Pterostoma palpina, L., 

 several ; Lophopieryx cameiina, L., rare ; Notodonta dictsea, L., almost abundant, 

 N. dictwoides, Ksp., one of each sex, N. ziczac, L., N. trepida, Esp., singly, N. 

 ehaonia, Hb., tliree J <? , two 9 ? ; Phalera hucephala, L, was of course common, 

 whilst of Pygxra curtula, L., only two were obtained. In addition to these one 

 Notodonta dromedarius, L., and two N. trimacula, Esp., were found by friends on 

 the same lamps. Otlier species whieli were captured in this way are Agroti.i cinerea, 

 Hb., fairly common, as many as three in one lamp, between May 29th and June 

 18th; J/eMei.f ynrteria, Curt., one specimen on April 15th; Aplecta tincta,^Ya\\m., 

 Xanthia gilvago, Esp., several, and a fine variety of Catocala nupta, L., with tlie 

 red of the hind-wings replaced by dark lilac-brown. At Woking one specimen 

 each of Notodonta trepida, N. ehaonia, and iV. dictxoides were taken at the lamps. 

 Fnnomos fuscantaria. Haw., both sexes in about equal numbers, and F. alniaria, 

 L., only males, were fairly common in both localities. 



Of the species obtained by other methods the following perhaps are noteworthy : 

 Cirrhnedia xerampelina, lib., two on ash trunks drying their wings, and several dead 

 ones in the lamps, Guildford ; Diaiithoecia nana, Rott., in some numbers on a fence 

 near a dense growth of Silene inflata, Guildford ; Oeonietra papilionaria, L., and 

 Eupithecia debiliata, Hb. (which is not included in Mr. Goss's list for Surrey), both 

 bred, the first mentioned from Woking, the latter from near Guildford : Xanthia 

 aurago, F., on ivy bloom with X. gilvago, Esp., Guildford ; Toxocampa pastinum, 

 Tr., one at Ilorsley, with ])lenty of Lycxna minima, Fuess., and Nemeobins lucina, 

 L. ; and finally, one Tethea retusa, L., on the canal bank at Woking. — H. G. 

 Champion, Horsell, Woking : October lOth, 1907. 



