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the district during the present season : — Acitpalpus hrunnipes, on the wing, May 

 21st ; Ar/ahus affinis, Hydroponisi melanarius and Stenus niveus, rarely, in Sphag- 

 num, Woking and Chobham ; Taehinus hipustulatus, one specimen, at a Cossus- 

 oak ; Tachyusa concolor, Oxt/poda leniula, and Lathrobium elongntum, var. fraudu- 

 lentum, in marshy places ; HomaJota elegantula, one specimen on the wing, 

 May 20th, not previously seen here ; Trichophya pUicornis, on the wing, May ; 

 Platystethus alutaeeus, in abundance, on May 23rd and 24t.h, burrowing in the 

 banks of a pond, after the manner of a Bledius ; Blediiis femoraJis, occasionally 

 on the wing, in April and May, not yet traced to its home here ; Acrognathus 

 mandibular is, one specimen on the wing, Chobham, May 30th, in a fresh locality' 

 one or two others also found about Woking, but apparently very rare here this 

 season ; Ff.enldium punctatum, Chobham, a common sea-side insect sometimes 

 found inland (I took it at Esher in 1875) ; Colon serripes, four examples on the 

 wing, July 23rd ; Hyperaspis reppensin, seen with Formica rufa ; Nanophyes 

 gracilis, two specimens on the banks of a pond ; CryptocepJialus parvulus, var. 

 harharese, two females on birch, September 2nd and 3rd, Hermitage Wood and 

 Chobham, not previously seen in the district. — G. C. Champion, Horsell : October, 

 1909. 



Cryptomorpha desjardinsi, Gfiier., at Sandown, Isle of Wight.— On August 

 30th last, Mr. J. Taylor, High Street, Sandown, Isle of Wight, found a specimen 

 of this species on a bunch of bananas ; as I happened to call on him a few minutes 

 after the capture, lie kindly presented the living specimen to me, and it is now in 

 my collection. This species has now been recorded from Winlaton-on-Tyne, 

 London (twice), and Barton-on-Sca, Hants. — T. Hudson Beaee, 10, Regent 

 Terrace, Edinburgh : October 14/A, 1909. 



Note on Penthina sauciana, Hb. — The Rev. W. G. Whittingham, of Knighton 

 Vicarage, Leicester, has drawn my attention to the fact that whereas, both in 1907, 

 and again in the present season, he has bred Penthina sauciana, Hb., sparingly 

 from larvfe found feeding in shoots of Vnccinium myrtiUus, in Charnwood Forest, 

 during May, Mr. Meyrick [HB. Br. Lep., 461 (1895)] gives August and September 

 as the months in which the larvae are obtainable. A reference to some well-known 

 authors shows that, in Kleinschmet. Deutsch. u. d. Schweiz, vol. i, pt. i, p. 108 

 (1863), von Heinemann says that the larva feeds in May, and that Snellen repro- 

 duces this statement in Vlind. v. Ned., Microlep., p. 269 (1882). From Sorhagen 

 [Kleinschmet. d. M. Brand., p. 94 (1886)] we learn that the larva has been met 

 with in the end of May and the beginning of June, while Barrett, in Lep. Brit. 

 Tsl., X, 369 (1905), also gives May and June as the months in which it feeds. The 

 marked discrepancies between the dates given by Mr. Meyrick, on the one hand, 

 and the rest of the above-named Lepidopterists, on the other, might perhaps be 

 reconcilable in the event of the species being double-brooded, but I have failed 

 to find any suggestion that this is ever the case, either on the continent or in 

 Britain, and Mr. Whittingham informs me that he is almost sure that there is only 

 a single brood in Charnwood Forest. Seeing, then, that Mr. Meyrick's entry {I.e.) 

 clearly implies that the larva becomes full-fed about September, we have no 

 alternative but to regard it as erroneous, unless confirmation is forthcoming. 



