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capture of it, viz., two specimens found by Chapins at Verviers in Belgium. A 

 specimen of the species was found by my daughter, M. A. Shai-p, in a small 

 quantity of flood-refuse here last week. I was very much surprised by this dis- 

 covery, especially as the insect was accompanied by several other rare forms 

 that I had not expected to occur close at home. The flood was not a high one 

 and tlie insect had not come from a distance, the refuse being on the bank of a 

 small ditch, over which a footpath passes, and the refuse was on this footpath, 

 at a considerable distance from the river or any large stream. The spot is only 

 a few minutes walk from my residence, and we frequently pass it several times 

 in the day. And yet this small quantity of rubbish produced, as I have said, 

 several species, some of them in numbers, tlaat are usually considered rare. 

 The amount of work that is requisite in order to obtain a good knowledge of the 

 more obscure Coleoptera of a fruitful district is almost distressing to contem- 

 plate. — D. Sharp, Brockenhurst : June Mth, 1912. 



Agrion armatum, Charp., in the Norfolk Broads. — During Whit-week, I was 

 on the Norfolk Broads everyday from May 27th to 31st inclusive, searching 

 chiefly for Agrion armatum. I took very few of the species however, and never 

 saw it in the plenty I did at the same time two years previously. There Avas 

 but little dragon-fly weather, but I am inclined to think that the species was 

 probably largely over. It is perhaps the earliest British Agrion to appear on the 

 wing, and would this early season most likely be well out diu-ing the very warm 

 weather we had at the end of April. Even Agrion pulchellum, usually the 

 commonest dragon-fly of the Broads, was in much reduced numbers and 

 apparently also going over. I took A. armatum on both Sutton and Stalham 

 Broads, and over a fairly wide area. Libellula fulva was common, but mostly 

 immature so far as I noticed ; indeed, I did not see a single ^ in the mature 

 bliie garb. The most abundant and restless dragon-fly was Erythromma naias ; 

 it never seemed to tire, and was on the wing constantly from early morning to 

 seven o'clock in the evening if there was any sunshine at all.* Papilio machaon 

 was out in plenty in perfect condition, and very pleasing it was to find this fine 

 butterfly still so common, notAvithstanding the persecution it has been subject 

 to for so many years. — Geo. T. Porritt, Elm Lea, Dalton, Huddersfield 

 June 6th, 1912, 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society : Meeting held in 

 the Eoyal Institution, Colquit Street, Liverpool, Monday, April loth, 1912. — • 

 Dr. P. F. Tinne, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Eev. S. Proudfoot, of Altrincham, communicated a paper : " Collecting 

 in Wicken and District," in which he gave a most interesting resume of his 

 experiences in the district among the Lepidoptera, describing the vai'ious 

 methods of collecting practised, and enmnerating the special insects peculiar to 

 Fenland. The localities were described in an entertaining manner, and the 

 habits and best places to find some of the rarer species were clearly outlined, 



* A friend tells me he saw P. lao-duioii flying freely on Wicken Feu during the same 

 month.— G. T. P. 



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