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collected and captured so many orood insects in what are now the south-eastern 

 suburbs of London, informs me that he liad only met with one example of 

 C. rapx previously ; this was at Lee, where Drs. Power and Sharp also found 

 it. At Tottenham it was taken by Messrs. Pelerin, E. C. Rye, F. Smith, 

 S. Stevens, C. O., E. A. and F. Waterhouse, and Janson Dr. Power's series, still 

 extant in his collection now at South Kensin^^ton, is in excellent preservation. — 

 F. B. Jennings, 152, Silver Street, Upper Echnonton, N. : November 15th, 1912. 



Notes on the food-plants of certain Russian species of Sesia. — I recently 

 received from Mr. Hermann Rangnow, Junr., of Berlin, a small collection of 

 Sesias, which he secured in the neighbourhood of Sarepta, S. E. Russia. Several 

 of the examples have been bred from larviB Mr. Rangnow found, and it seems 

 worth while to record the food jjlants of foiir species which do not appear to 

 have been bred before. The insects in question were Sesia chalcidiformis, bred 

 from the dead roots of a species of Artemisia ; Sesia cirgisa (cf. Seitz, vol. 2, 

 p. 408, 1912) bred from a root of Statice gmelini ; a large series of Sesia allanti- 

 formis reared from the roots of Phlomis pungens ; and one Sesia astatiformis, 

 bred from a root of Rhindera. tetraspis. — N. C. Rothschild, Arundel House, 

 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, W. : January, 1912. 



Platyclcis roeselii, Hagen, c^c.,on the Lincolnshire Coast. — Orthopterists will 

 remember that so long ago as 1888 Mr. H. Wallis Kew recorded having taken 

 specimens of Platycleis roeselii at Trusthorpe, on the Lincolnshire coast. For 

 many years I have had two of these specimens in my collection, and which 

 there was never any dou}>t Mr. Wallis Kew took at Trusthorpe, but as 

 Br. Malcolm Burr omits the locality in his " Orthoptera of Central and Western 

 Europe," I decided this year to investigate the district myself. Accordingly, 

 I went to Siitton-on-Sca, which is about one and a quarter miles from Trus- 

 thorpe, on August 27th, and stayed there until September 9th. During that 

 period I took thirty-six specimens of Platycleis roeselii, many of them very fine 

 ones, at Trusthorpe, and should probably have got many more had not the 

 weather, from an entomological point of view, been about as bad as it could be. 

 My visit commenced the day after the perhaps unparalleled disastrous floods in 

 Norfolk and Lincolnshire owing to the long continued torrential rains, and 

 although during my stay there was comparatively little rain, the ground for 

 some days was in many places a veritable swamp, and the wind day after day 

 blew such violent gales from the north and east, with the temperature bitterly 

 cold, that collecting was most unprofitable and uncomfortalile work. P. roeselii 

 seemed exceedingly local, being almost confined apparently to a stretch of the 

 sandhills of about a hundred yards long by ten or twelve yards wide, on the 

 land side ; and although I carefully examined many other places to all appear- 

 ance exactly similar, I could find no trace of it elsewhere. It occurred among 

 the long rank grasses, from the base to ten or a dozen yards up the steep side of 

 the sandhills. The jjublished descriptions of the species give the colour of the 

 characteristic circular broad border on the side flaps as " yellowish-white," 

 " yellowish," or " bright yellow," whereas in every one of my specimens, it was 



