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work by any means what appcavod to be promised by the richness and wt^ll-vvooded 

 character of tlie district. Perliaps our most satisfactory find there was CErophora 

 tripuncta, in some plenty, sliowing a special partiality for the maple bushes in the 

 hedge sides. 



One day Mr. Cruttwell drove me over to Southwold, a lovely drive of twenty 

 miles, and to a rather attractive looking bit of coast, but disappointment followed us : 

 Plutella cruoiferaram swarmed at every step, and nothing else could be found, so my 

 friend went inland to beat hedges, and I remained to idle about the sea-side, and 

 watch the evolutions of some terns and ring dotterels. By and by Mr. Cruttwell 

 came back with the results of hedge heating — one Eiipithecia to(jata, and one 

 Dioryctria splendidella. My astonishment may be imagined, not a single spruce fir 

 could be seen for miles, and he had seen none. Then we strolled towards some bits 

 of salt marsh, and on passing a wooden building another splendidella was descried 

 sitting under a batten, and upon another building two more— which last were only 

 secured by the intervention of natives with a long ladder, — and on further search we 

 found two more splendidella, sis in all, several of them very large and handsome. 

 I simply record what we found. I can ofi^er no explanation. No spruce firs, nor, as 

 far as I saw, any firs appeared to be nearer than two or three miles. Had all the 

 specimens been about the wooden buildings, the conclusion would have been irresis- 

 tible that some one had gathered a vast number of cones and brought them there. 

 But it appeared that nothing of the kind had been done, and the specimen of 

 splendidella, with togata, in a hedge more than a mile distant would still have 

 remained unaccounted for. The theory of immigration even suggested itself, but 

 the specimens were in beautiful condition, and could hardly have flown many miles. 

 Perhaps we ought to have accepted our good fortune with thankfulness, and not 

 troubled our heads about " whence !" In the salt marsh were Eupoecilia vectisana 

 and ajffiiiitana, with Sericoris littorana, very sparingly, and with our twenty miles 

 drive before us we devoted little time to them.— C. G. Baeeett, 39, Linden Grove, 

 Nunhead, S.E. : July lOth, 1891. 



Cosmopteryx orichalcea in Wilts.— 'E.o.vXy in June last I was surprised and 

 pleased to have a fresh specimen of this apparently local insect brought me by one 

 of the most active of the College collectors, E. I. Claxton. We subsequently re- 

 visited the locality, and obtained about a dozen more. They occurred on the exposed 

 slope of a dry railway embankment, and, seemingly, only in a very limited space, 

 where the vegetation was somewhat different. I hope, later on, to identify the 

 grass to which they are attached.— E. Meykick, The College, Marlborough: 

 July 1th, 1891. 



Leptura scutellata, ^c, in Windsor Forest.— Ox\. behalf of Mr. J. B. Bowring, 

 I have to record the capture of a considerable number of this usually scarce Longicorn 

 in a stump about ten feet high in Windsor Forest. On the same stump a large 

 number of Tillus elongatus were also found, in company with Ptilinus. Mr. Bowring 

 kindly sent me several specimens of the Leptura alive ; both the male and female 

 stridulate in the s;unc manner as Agapanthia lineatocollis, by moving tlie thorax 

 forwards and biickwards. The characteristic pubescence of the scutcUum is silvery 



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