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Germany Ihc lavva has been found on Inula germanica by Epplesheim, and on 

 Eupatoriiim cannalinum by Sorhagen. — EusTACE E. Bankes, Corfe Castle : Novem- 

 ler Uh, 1898. 



Occurrence of haspeyresia {Sfigmonota, On.) dorxana, Fb., in Herefordshire. — 

 On May 28th last Dr. J. H. Wood found, in West Herefordshire, Laspeyresia 

 dorsana flying freely and plentifully, at about 5 p.m., in an upland pasture where its 

 food-plant, Lathy rus macrorrhiztis, Wimm. {= Orobus tiiberosus, L.), was growing 

 in abundance, and Vicia orobus was not uncommon. The capture of L. dorsana in 

 Herefordshire is worthy of special notice, for Meyrick, HB. Brit. Lep., p. 512 (1895), 

 gives its distribution in Britain as extending only from " York to Caledonian Canal," 

 nor are any other British localities for it, south of Yorkshire, known to me. I am 

 responsible for the identification of Dr. Wood's specimens as L.. dorsana, ¥b. — 

 Id. : November 19th, 1898. 



Remarkable aberration of Laspeyresia dorsana, Fb. — Among the few examples 

 of Laspeyresia dorsana captured by Dr. Wood on the above-mentioned occasion was 

 a male, in which, on each fore-wing, the typical white curved dorsal blotch is 

 entirely obsolete, except that its apex is represented in the usual position by an oval 

 white spot. In Ent. Mo. Mag., 2nd scr., viii, 43-44 (1897), I drew attention to 

 another striking aberration of this species, in which the white dorsal blotch is only 

 represented by two white spots, one on the dorsal margin, and the other where the 

 apex of the blotch would ordinarily stand. — Id. 



A third brood of Pieris brassiccE. — In his note under the above heading in 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., 2nd ser., ix, 278, Mr. J. J. Walker mentions the appearance at 

 Sheerness, on October 23rd last, of a fresh though small specimen of Pieris brassicce, 

 and says that he has never before seen any evidence of a third brood in Britain. It 

 will therefore probably interest him and others to know that, by a curious coincidence, 

 I watched, on that selfsame day, a specimen of P. brassica;, in fine condition, flying 

 about near here in the mid-day sunshine. It was of full size, but unfortunately I 

 omitted to take a note of whether it was a male or female. — Id. : Dec. ^th, 1898. 



Andrena ferox and other Hymenoptera at Dodington, Kent. — A single male of 

 this species was beaten by me out of a hawthorn blossom late one afternoon at the end 

 of May, 1896, at Dodington, Kent ; a bitterly cold east wind was blowing at the time, 

 and the bee fell benumbed into the tray, and was fortunately recognised. Bees have 

 until this year been plentiful in spring in this locality ; whether the bad weather or 

 the ploughing up of some rough chalky fields was the cause of their absence this 

 year I cannot say. 



Of the genus Andrena, cingulata. Fab., atriceps, Kirb., ros<B, Panz., var. spini- 

 gera, Sm., cineraria, Linn., nitida, Fourc. ,fulva, Schr., nigrocenea, Kirb., Clarkella, 

 Kirb., Oioynana, Kirb., apicata, Sm., prcecox, Scop., varians, Rossi, helvola, Linn., 

 fasciata, Nyl., albicrus, Kirb., labialis, Kirb., minutula, Kirb., nana, Kirb., dorsata, 

 Kirb., and Wilkella, Kirb., have all occurred. A.angustior has been taken at Wichling, 

 close by, but I have not observed it myself. The common Nomadce at times abound 

 on the cherry blossoms and elsewhere, Of the genus Osmia, rufa, Ijmi\.,pilicornis, 

 Sm., coerulescens, Linn., leucomelana, Kirb., bicolor, Schk., have all occurred. 



