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1891, I bred a few more. In later years I found the moth in small numbers in two 

 evidently separated localities in Surrey always amongst Punts sylveslris, in fact, 

 I have never found it on any other species of Pinus. P. pinaster is rarely seen in 

 this district, and I have had no opportunity of searching for this or any other 

 insects on the very few trees I have noticed in private grounds. 



Evetria sylvestrana. Curt. — Mr. Bankes, in his supplementary notes on the 

 above named species, wonders whether it has ever been bred from Pinus pinea 

 (the "stone pine"). I think 1 can assert on very good authority that it has been. 

 The late William Machin bred it very freely about the year 1857, from larvse 

 " feeding in the shoots of the 'stone ■^'ins' —Pinus picea.^' This information I bad 

 from him a few years before his death. He told me that he found " several larvae 

 in a shoot," and that they were very easily found when approaching full growth by 

 a quantity of dry frass adhering to the small amount of web on the outside of the 

 shoot. Knowing how very careful he was in all his statements, I feel no doubt 

 whatever that the larva feeds on P. pinea as well as P. pinaster. Whether it feeds 

 upon P. sylvestris or not is another matter. I have never seen it alive in any 

 stage— I may add that the exact locality where Machin met with his larvse was 

 Addington Park, which may account for the " West Wickham " in the " Manual," 

 etc., as the two parishes adjoin. — A. Thubnall, Wanstead, Essex : October 1st, 19jO. 



Note on breeding Bembecia hylxiformis, Lasp. — In June, 1907, I reared several 

 specimens of Bembecia hylieiformis, Lasp., from pupae received from Q-lanchon, 

 Saxony. Two of these were placed in a large glass-topped pill-box, and paired 

 immediately. The insects remained in copula for about a quarter of an liour only. 

 I sleeved the female on a raspberry bush and this year on the 16th of August bred 

 a male from a larva I found mining in one of the stems in the spring. The larva, 

 therefore, lives for two years. — N. Cuaeles Rothscuild, Arundel House, 

 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, W. : September 2oth, 1909. 



Dr. James Harold Bailey, M.B., Ch.B., died on March 22nd last, at Port 

 Erin, Isle of Man, at the age of 39. He was a born naturalist and his early tastes 

 were doubtless encouraged at the school he first attended in Manchester, which was 

 kept by Dr. Adams — a celebrated eonchologist. Himself a native of Manchester, 

 Dr. Bailey afterwards attended the Owens College and graduated in 1891, being 

 subsequently made an Associate of the College. He married in 1895, and, after 

 practising some ten or eleven years in the neighbourhood of Manchester, was 

 compelled by his wife's indifferent health to move to the Isle of Man about seven 

 years ago. Here he had a congenial outlet for his enthusiasm in investigating the 

 flora, geology and entomology of the island, and he frequently contributed notes to 

 this Magazine. As a young man his preference lay with the Lepidoptera, but it 

 was gradually transferred to the Coleoptera—^vohaki\y under the influence of 

 Chappell and the other Manchester Coleopterists, and in this branch of entomology 

 he received considerable help and encouragement from the late Mr. Samuel Stevens, 

 to whom he was probably introduced by Chappell. 



