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Vanessa antiopa in Kent. — It may interest you to know that my nephew, 

 aged 6, caught a " Camberwell Beauty " in my garden last Sixnday, August 20th, 

 the first time he had used a net. Covxld any of the readers of your Magazine 

 tell me whether this rare butterfly is British bred, or if it has been blown across 

 the Channel ? In this week's " Spectator " there is an account of one having 

 been seen at Sheringham. — George A. Asprey, The Court Lodge, Chelsfield, 

 Kent : August 26th, 1911. 



Note on Argyresthia decimella, Stainton. — I have never seen the unique 

 example of this species, but from the figure published in the September number 

 of this Magazine, I should have little hesitation, ixnder the circumstances, in 

 regarding it as an aberration of the well-known Lithocolletis rohoris, Z. The 

 palpus figui-ed is characteristic of Lithocolletis. — E. Metrick, Thornhanger, 

 Marlborough: September 1st, 1911. 



Ceropales variegatus, Fab., in the Neiv Forest. — As captures of the S of this 

 rare species have only been recorded by Smith (18-45), Mortimer (1896), and 

 Hamm (1908), it may be of interest to record the capture of six S S's and one 

 $ on the 4th and 8th of August last in the New Forest. The heat of the sun 

 on those days was almost unbearable, and one was driven to shelter under some 

 of the young fir trees between twelve and one o'clock. When doing so I was 

 surprised to see Cerceris, Halictus, Andrena <J ^ , Nomada, etc., creeping in 

 evidently for the same purpose, as they rested in the shade for long intervals 

 before again taking flight. — E. B. Nevinson, Morland, Cobham, Surrey: 

 September 7th, 1911. 



Capture of Ctenophora flaveolata, F. — I have pleasiu-e in recording the 

 captiire of a specimen of this rare Dipteron, which my little boy found in the 

 New Forest a few days ago. I recorded two specimens in 1902 (Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 vol. xxxviii, p. 270) which are now in the British Museum Collection, and in 

 1903 I took another example. — Herbert Ashby, Oakwood Lodge, Chandler's 

 Ford, near Southampton : July 6th, 1911. 



Nirmus uncinosus, N., in Shetland. — Several examples of this beautifully 

 marked parasite occurred on a specimen of Corvus comix shot on Gluss Isle, N. 

 Mavine, on 28th July. During the past eighteen months a large number of 

 hooded crows had been fruitlessly examined, and it is, perhaps, worth noting 

 that the present host was a young bird of the year. Tliere is very distinct 

 sexual dimorphism in this Nirmus. Indeed, as Denny long ago remai'ked, the 

 general facies of the male is Docophoroid rather than Nirmoid. — James Water- 

 STON, The Manse, Ollaberry, Shetland : August, 1911. 



[The genus Mr«tMS belongs to the " Mallophaga or "Bird-Lice," cf. Sharp, 

 Cambridge Natural History, Insects, I, p. 346. — Eds.] 



