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Oil tlie continent it has a wide northern and south-eastern distribution, having 

 been recorded from Lapland, Finland, Sweden, Prussia, Switzerland, Central Kussia, 

 Austria, Carniola, and Bosnia. It is probably not common as a rule, and it occurs 

 somewhat early in the season, about May 21st to 14.<i\i being dates on which it has 

 been taken in Switzerland. 



Mr. McLachlan,to whom I communicated Mr. Gordon's capture, was extremely 

 interested in the matter, and in writing to me asking for a note on the subject he 

 remarked that " Wigtownshire sounds a great deal more like its native heath than 

 the Essex Marshes !' Mr. Gordon, and his brother Mr. R. (Jordon, have been 

 successful in their well known labours on the fauna of their country in finding 

 many interesting insects, but few that surpass Neuronia clathrala in this respect, 

 and it is to be hoped that they may yet be able to trace it to a definite locality and 

 to find it in numbers. — Kenneth J. Moeton, 13, Blackford Road, Edinburgh: 

 October, 1904. 



Luci.na fasciata in Cornwall. — While collecting in September near Padstow 

 in North Cornwall I came across this interesting fly in fair numbers on the sandhills 

 bordering on Harlyn Bay and Constantine Bay. Over a considerable expanse the 

 insect was only sparingly found, but on two small areas (one in each Bay), which 

 apparently differed in no way from the rest of the localities, as many as throe at a 

 time were taken, the insect being common at those spots. It has been recorded 

 for Great Britain by Col. Yerbury from Porthcawl, and 1 have taken two on the 

 golf links at Weston-super-Mare. — C. G. Lamb, Museum of Zoology, Cambridge: 

 November, 1904. 



Occurrence of a species of Ripersia {europsea, Newstead) neio to Britain at 

 Swanage, Dorset. — In September I sent Mr. Newstead two species of Ripersia from 

 nests of Formica fusca on the cliffs near Swanage. One of them, Ripersia tomlini, 

 Newst., was rare, but the other, R. europxa, Newst., was excessively abundant. 

 Mr. Newstead described it a few years ago from specimens which I collected in 

 Guernsey, but it has not hitherto been known from Great Britain. — B. Tomlin, 

 Chester : November 2nd, 1904. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society : — The opening meet- 

 ing of the winter session was held in the Royal Institution, Liverpool, on Monday, 

 October 17th, 1904, and took the form of a joint exhibitional meeting with the 

 Manchester Entomological Society. In the unavoidable absence of the President, 

 S. J. Capper, Esq., F.E.S., Mr. R. Tait, jun., Vice-President, presided. On the 

 Chair being taken Mr. Rd. Wilding, Vice-President, extended a very cordial 

 welcome to the visiting Society, and expressed the hope that tlie gatliering of the 

 two Societies would become an annual occurrence. Dr. W. E. Hotle,|M.A., D.Sc, 

 President of the Manchester Society, in replying, lieartiiy endorsed Mr. Wilding's 

 suggestion. 



