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Sti-angalia aurulenta, Fah., in. Devonshire. — About the middle of August, 1900 

 I took a specimen of StrangaHa aurulenta, F., in Harpford Woods, near Sidmouth, 

 South Devon. It is a female, and when found was clinging to the almost perpendi- 

 cular trunk of an oak about four feet from the ground. I do not know if the species 

 has been recorded from this locality before. — II. Gr. Attlee, 153, Beechcroft Road 

 Upper Tooting, S.W. : Decemher 1904. 



Telropium castaneum, L., at Esher. — I observe in the Ent. Mo. Mag. for 

 February last that a specimen of tlio rare Longicorn, Tetropium castaneum, L., was 

 exhibited at the Entomological Society on December 7th, 1904, and it was said that 

 it was probably introduced. I took one s^pecimen on June 22nd, 1902, in the 

 Pine Woods at Esher, sunning itself on a piece of bracken under the pines on the 

 edge of the Wood. I feel convinced it will be found to occur there again if care- 

 fully looked for. I shall be pleased to tell any one who may wish to try for it the 

 exact spot where I took my specimen. — G. E. Bryant, Fir Grove, Esher, Surrey : 

 February 7th, 19t)5. 



Siloanus mercator, Fauv., at Mertoti, Surrey. — Mr. Tomlin's note in the 

 January Ent. Mo. Mag. on the above species has reminded me of a specimen 

 standing with surinamensifi in my collection which I could never reconcile with any 

 European species. I must have overlooked Mr. Champion's excellent table of the 

 genus (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxii, 2ti8), or should have referred it long ago to S. mercator. 

 It is considerably larger than .surinamen.sis, and in addition to the characters given 

 in the above table has the elytra much more deeply and regularly punctured. It 

 was found in a house at Merton, Surrey, in December, 1882, and possibly came 

 from one of the tobacco or other factories in the neighbourhood. — E. A. Newbery, 

 12, Churchill Road, Dartmouth Park, N.W. : February \S>th, 1905. 



Ceuthorrhyiichus cochlearias, Gyll., loith 6-Joiiiied funiculus. — M. Bedel has 

 been good enough to corroborate a specimen of C. cochlearias with the above abnormal 

 character. He mentions that this aberration is not uncommon in the genus. 

 Except in distinctus, Bris., which is regarded as a var. of punctiger, Gyll., I have 

 hitherto not met with a similar aberration. This specimen is from Totnes, 

 Devon. — Id. 



Notes on Lepidoptera, observed at Mortehoe, North Devon, in 1904. --During 

 the three months (July 2Gth — October 20th) spent at Mortehoe, I did not sugar 

 once, neither did I devote as much time to collecting as in some recent years, 

 nevertheless, several species were added to the list. 



Butterflies were very numerous, more especially the following : Argynnis 

 paphia, Vanessa urticfp., in larger members than I have seen anywhere; V. io, 

 V. ataJanta, Pararge megxra, and the three common whites. Indeed, it was a 

 great butterfly year, yet Satyrus semele was quite scarce, and of Caenonympha pam- 

 philus I did not see a single specimen. 



In the following list of insects notable for one reason or another, an asterisk 

 indicates that the species is new to the locality : — 



Tyria jacohxie. This species seems to be establishing itself, as the larvfe were 

 noted in two widely separated localities. 



