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Sprinf) notes from South Devon. — In A]5ril,iii the country about Seaton, Devon, 

 queen wasps {J'e-ipa vulyaris, $ ) were very numerous; but now, in the niiddle of 

 June, wasps are scarce. I'anessa lo has been abundant this spring, in Devon and 

 Dorset. 7'. urlica is the only other species that lias thus I'ar been visible, and this 

 in fewer numbers. — A. E. Eai\i>', Woodhiiids, yeaton, Devon : Jane I'lth, 1901. 



Melopius clentatus, Fab., lived from Bomhyjc querctls. — I have much pleasure in 

 recording that Mr. Edwin C. H. Davies, St. Issej, bred Metopius dentatus from 

 liouibi/x qiierciis this spring, the exact date not known, he having found it in his 

 breeding cage on June (Jtli. — Gr. C. JJignell, Saltasli : June 10th, 1901. 



Odontaus mobilicornis, Fabr., at IVoklng. — A male of this species was captured 

 here on the evening of May 28th by one of my boys, who found it flying amongst 

 grass close to the ground.* The evening was very sultry, and threatening a 

 storm ; many other beetles being also on the wing at the time, as Trox scaber, 

 Hedobia imperialis, Melolontha vulgaris, &c. It will be remembered that Dr. Sharp 

 found an example of the Odontaus here on May 13th, 1894, when in my company. f 

 — G. C. Champion, Horsell, Woking: June 15ih, 1901. 



Uryophilus pusillus, Gyll., at llelsby, Cheshire. — On June 1st, 1901, I took 

 tliis species freely in a wood on the south side of Helsby Hill, Cheshire. The wood 

 is planted chiefly with Scotch fir, but thei'c are a few oaks and spruce firs. The 

 species occurred only by beating the spruce firs, none being found on the Scotch 

 firs. I obtained a total of 155 specimens, 66 being males, and 89 females. — J. 

 Hakold Bailey, 128, Broad Street, Pendleton : June 6th, 1901. 



Licinus depressus, Fayk., in North Staffordshire. — In July, 1886, I took a 

 pair of this species, male and female, under a stone at the foot of Bunster, a hill 

 at the entrance to Dovedale, on tlie Staffordshire side of the Eiver Dove. So far 

 as I am aware, this species has not been recorded as occurring in Staffordshire. — Id. 



Aspidiotus articiilatns, Morgan, in Costa Rica. — Dr. F. Noack has just sent me 

 examples of this species, found on leaves of coffee in Costa Rica. It is worth men- 

 tioning, being the first Coccid reported from that country ; in the long list which I 

 published lately in the Biologia Cenlrali-Americana, there is not one Costa Rica 

 record.— T. D. A. Cockekeil, East Las Vegas, N. M., U. S. A. : May, 1901. 



Vanessa Antiopa, S^'c., in the Isle of Wight. — As I was descending a ravine 

 between St. Catherine's Point and Blackgang, a specimen of V. Antiopa rose up 

 from a swampy place by the side of a stream. 1 was so taken aback by the sight of 

 it that I made no attempt to " net " it until too late. 



I am glad to be able to report that Melitcea Cinxia is more plentiful than it 

 has been — in my experience — for the last twenty-seven yeai's. I have taken two 

 remarkable and beautiful varieties of the male.— H. Goss, Ventnor : May 30th, 

 1901. 



* A second specimen, a female, was caught by myself in the same place on June 21st. 

 t Ent. Mo. Mag., xxx, p. 103. 



