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Phorocera incerta, Meade, at Ipswich. — It may be of interest to state that this 

 fly, described as new to science by Mr. Meade last month, is in all probability quite 

 . common in the woods near Ipswich, where I found it sitting on the trunks of large 

 oak trees in the more open spaces in some numbers (though I only took seven speci- 

 mens, as I did not recognise it as a rarity), together with Exorida dubia and 

 perturhans, Bibio laniger, Spilogaster duplicata, and CallipTiora azurea, on April 

 26th, 1897. I certainly intend to search for more next year, and if successful, shall 

 then hope to give myself the pleasure of sending specimens to any of " the little 

 band of students" of Eritish Diptera, as Mr. Austen happily terms them, who care 

 to have the species. I have sent a specimen to him for the National Collection.— 

 Claude Mobley, Everton House, Ipswich : October, 1897. 



The species of Chrysops in the Lea Valley. — Referring to Mr. Austen's most 

 interesting paper on the British species of Chrysops in the last number of this Maga- 

 zine, I may mention that the staple species of the genus in the Lea Valley is Chr. 

 relictus, which is abundant. The usually common Chr. ccecutiens, on the contrary, 

 is so scarce that in three seasons' collecting I have only met with a single example 

 (a 9 )> which I captured on July 4th, 1895, on the Edmonton Marshes. I have, 

 however, some recollection of a previous capture by a friend on the Marshes at 

 Tottenham in 1894. Chr. quadratus I have never taken, and I much doubt that it 

 occurs in the valley. — F. Beansden Jennings, 152, Silver Street, Upper Edmonton, 

 N. : October 8th, 1897. 



Cimices in birds' nests. — On the 3rd instant I put my suggestion (p. 212, ante) 

 into practice by procuring a lad and a ladder, and having three large sparrows' nests 

 brought down from the eaves of this house, and that was nearly all the result, for 

 the close examination of them over a newspaper afforded only two earwigs. Well, 

 one swallow does not make a summer, nor did three sparrows' nests give a harvest of 

 Acanthice, yet I am not discouraged by this failure of the first experiment ; it only 

 goes to show that there were no Acanthia there, not that they do not exist in other 

 nests, and the problem has yet to be solved. — J. W. Douglas, 153, Lewisliam Road, 

 S.E. : September 8lh, 1897. 



Forjicula Lesnei, Finot,at Wallingford. — I am very pleased to be able to record 

 a second capture of Forjicula Lesnei, Finot, in England. Mr. Horace Donisthorpe 

 has very kindly given me a specimen {$) taken by him at Wallingford, in Berkshire, 

 in September, 1892. — Malcolm Bukr, Bellagio, East Grinstead : Sept. 22nd, 1897. 



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2'Ae liec. Andrew Matthews, who died at Gumley, Leicestershire, on September 

 14th, at the advanced age of 82, had been Rector of the parish for 44 years ; he was 

 the son of the Rev. Andrew Hughes Mattiiews, and was born on June 18th, 1815 

 (the day of the Battle of Waterloo). His father was himself a naturalist, and a 



