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Habits of Dianthaecia. — Mr. Barrett's remarks on a habit of Dianthaeeia con- 

 spersa remind me of the first time I met with this pretty species in the perfect 

 state. In July, 1873, just thirty years ago, the late Mr. Bond walked with me 

 from Whittlcsford in Cambridgeshire, where I was then living, to the neighbouring 

 parish of Sawston to look for Lycana Acis, where we had taken it years before. 

 After an utisuccessfiil search for the butterfly we turned our attention to the moths, 

 taking such species as Sesia ichneumoniformi.i, Toxocampa pastiniim, &c., on the 

 ground where Acis used to occur, and tlien turned to go back to Whittlcsford ; 

 searching a fence near the large paper mills we found a fine fresh conspersa on the 

 top rail, quite five feet from the ground, and a few yards further along another also 

 on the top rail. As Mr. Bond made no remark I conclude that he had met with 

 the moth in similar situations before. With regard to other members of this genus 

 I have only met with two species at rest, viz., D. carpophaga and cucuhali, three of 

 the former in the large gravel pit near Whittlcsford Station amongst the loose 

 gravel well concealed by the rough grass, their pale ochreous-brown colour matching 

 the gravel on which they rested. Oi cucuhali I met with a single specimen at rest 

 at Babrahani (Cambs.) tlie same year (1875) at the base of a poplar trunk well 

 concealed by the tall grass. — A. TnUHNALL, Thornton Heath : July 6th, 1903. 



Triphrena pronuba caught by a Flycatcher. — On the evening of June 23rd last, 

 at about 8.30 p.m., Mrs. Richardson saw a flycatcher (Muscicapa grisola) make a 

 short flight from a sundial and return to it with a good sized moth, which, in a few 

 seconds, escaped. The bird went after it and caught it again, and after it had got 

 rid of its wings, which it did by jerking it about and hitting it against the stone of 

 the sundial, much in the way in which a thrush breaks up a snail, it ate it. Going 

 up to the sundial we found on the grass below a fore and hind-wing of Triphmna 

 pronuba. Probably the other wings were there, but it was getting rather dark to 

 see them. To witness such an exhibition is somewhat unusual, and I thought it 

 might be worth recording. Had the wings merely been seen in the morning the 

 destruction of the moth would certainly have been credited to a bat. — Nelson M. 

 Richardson, Montevideo, near Weymouth : July iHh, 1903. 



Trichoptera and Odonata in West Cornwall in 1903.— During another, only 

 too short, visit to Cornwall this year, 1 have been able to add slightly to my former 

 lists of Trichoptera. Liinnophilus luridus, Curt, occurred near Trewoofe. Silo 

 pallipes, F., at Lamovna Cove and Newlyn (West), Crunoecia irrorata at 

 Newlyn and Mawgan-in-Pydes. Beroea pullata, Curt., at Newquay, lihyacophila 

 dorsalis, Curt., above Grulval, and Diplectrona felix, McL., near Newlyn. This 

 latter seemed to be confined to a half-dried-up water-fall about 6ft. square sur- 

 rounded by ivy. I also took five species of Odonata, viz., Pyrrhosoma nymphula, 

 Sulz., Agrion puella, L., and Ischnura elegans, V. d. L., and Calopteryx virgo, L., 

 which seemed widely distributed ; and in addition I had the pleasure of securing a 

 specimen of Sympetrum Foii.icolombii, Selys, about mid-day on June 4th. I took it 

 in a swamp about half-a-mile west of a little village called Sheflield on the road to 

 Trewoofe.— W. C. Boyd, Waltham Cross : July 3rd, 1903. 



Sympetrum Fonscolombii, Selys, in the Land's End District.— The capture by 

 my old friend Mr. W. C. Boyd, of a ? 5. Fonscolombii on the -Itli of June in this 



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