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miicli trouble pit-king. I noticed with some surprise that a lot of savojs close to 

 the attacked plants were untouched. I did not see a single Phtaia, though I have a 

 number of their favourite turncap lilies in my garden. — W. F. Johnson, Acton 

 Glebe, Poyntzpass : September Isf, 1897. 



Pieris Daplidice at Dover. — On August 27th last, while my son was taking 

 Lycana Adonis he came across a female Pieris Daplidice. I have shown this 

 specimen to Mr. Sydney Webb, of Maidstone House, Dover, who confirms the 

 identification. — A. Stagey, 34, Clarendon Street, Dover : September, 1897. 



Pieris Daplidice in. North Kent. — See Mr. Butler's notes on Hemiptera, p. 236. 



Lepidoptera in Ross-shire. — Whilst staying a day or two at Gairloch, Ross- 

 shire, early in Si-ptember, I noticed the following species, which have not, I think, 

 been previously recorded north of the Caledonian Canal, viz. : — Acalla aspersana — 

 common in one locality near the shelter of some rocks on the hillside ; variable and 

 strongly marked. Chelaria Huebnerella — several amongst birch, and also at Strome 

 Ferry. Cerostoma costella — one on the outskirts of a small wood.— E. Metrick, 

 Elmswood, Marlborough : September 6th, 1897. 



Ochsenheimeria vacculella common at BrocJchy.- — Collecting in the neighbour- 

 hood of Brockley the present month I had the good fortune to meet with numbers 

 of Ochsenheimeria vacculella in the crevices of the bark on poplar, elm and willow. 

 Judging by the number of dead insects in the spiders' webs on the trees, I conclude 

 that it must have been most plentiful. — Percy Kichards, 3, Salisbury Villas, Stuart 

 Koad, Peckham Rye Park, S.E. : September, 1897. 



[It is ten or twelve years since we were startled by the sudden appearance of 

 this hitherto rare species, in plenty, at Lewisham and elsewhere in South London. 

 Since then it appears to have scarcely been seen. Mr. Richards' captures (which I 

 have examined) seem to suggest that it has again been plentiful, and this is rendered 

 more probable by the circumstance that the insect has also been found this season in 

 Suffolk by the Rev. C. T. Cruttwell, and by a correspondent of the Rev. E. N, 

 Bloomfield at Ipswich. — C. G. B.j. 



SpHomi/ia speciosa in the New Forest. — I was fortunate enough to secure a fine 

 female specimen of this fJy on May 12th last, in the same glade at Brockenhurst 

 where in June, 1896, 1 found so many males. This and one male were all I saw this 

 year during the fortnight I was in the Forest ; no doubt the unfavourable weather 

 was the reason. — Gertrude Ricahdo, 3i, Kensington Mansions, S.W. : August 

 Z\st, 1897. 



Note on the habits of Bombus Latreillellus. — I have recently taken several nests 

 of Bombus Latreillellus, and have established them in the garden, joining two weak 

 nests together. The males leave the nest early in August, and return to the mouth 

 of the hole, which generally has been used by a mouse or a mole, about the middle 

 of the month, and wait for the young queens to come out. Often a queen will peep 

 out of the hole and run back, and the first male on the spot will follow her in. This 

 habit occurs with no other Bombus I believe. 



