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the last three or four seasons. I have ohserved it on several occasions in 

 flight, have seen it resting on the ground, have beaten it from oaks, but 

 especially noted numbers resting on some iron railings in one of the woods 

 just within the Derbyshire boundary. In this last situation I have repeatedly 

 seen them feeding voraciously on caterpillars, which had descended from the 

 trees immediately above. My dates range from May 1st to the middle of 

 June. — J. M. Brown, 176 Carter Knowle Eoad, Sheffield : July 2\st, 1921. 



Acronycta menyanthidis double-brooded, — As a sequel to my note on the 

 very early appearance oi Ao'onycta menyanthidis (Ent. Mo. Mag., July 1921, 

 p. 165), I have to record that a second brood appeared on our moors during 

 August — an occurrence which I have never known before with this species, 

 nor do I know of any record of such. Among second-brood specimens taken 

 by Mr. B. Morlej'^ was an exceedingly fine melanic example, a form of which 

 I know of only one previous occurrence in this district, though at Strensall, 

 near York, and at Skipwith Common, near Selby, it is the prevailing form. 

 This is one of the curious anomalies in Yorkshire melanism, because in 

 the two districts mentioned there is little other melanism, whereas the 

 localities for the species here are in the " thick " of the melanic area, and 

 yet practically all our menyanthidis are pale. I quite expected to see a 

 second brood of Hadena glauca also, as it was out about the same early date 

 in spring as was menyanthidis, but I have not seen or heard of any evidence 

 of it. The moth of the year in South-west Yorkshire has been Tryphaena 

 2n-onuba. Always very abundant of course, it has this season occurred iu 

 prodigious numbers apparently everywhere. — Geo. T. Poeeitt, Dalton, 

 Huddersfield : Septeinbei- 5th, 1921. 



Grylhis domesticus outside houses. — Following Mr. Porritt's note (anfeo, 

 p. 185), it may be interesting to note that in 1911 several of the roads liere 

 were favoured by the above species " nesting " between the kerbstones, and I 

 have come across two cases this year, one being opposite this house. There is 

 a confectioner's bakehouse down the road where the cheerful chirping of 

 Gryllus is in evidence all the year round in any weather, but the present vear 

 and 1911 are the only ones since 1904 in which I have noticed them in the 

 open here. — C. Nicholson, 35 The Avenue, Hale End, E. 4, 



Abundance of Wasps. — The social wasps are very abundant about Hale End , 

 nearly 400 nests having been destroyed this year to date on the Copped Hall 

 estate (4500 acres) near Epping. — C. Nicholson. 



Hipersia europaea Netvst. as a British species. — Mr. Green, in his in- 

 teresting observations on British Coccidae, when recording the capture of 

 Hipersia europaea at Minehead in nests oi Acanthoonyops {Donisthorpea) niyer 

 [antea, p. 191), writes : — " Although no record of this species as a British 

 insect has appeared in print, I understand from Prof. Newstead that it has 

 been taken iu this country on several occasions by Mr. Tonilin and Mr. Donis- 

 thorpe." In this, however, he is mistaken. Tomlin recorded it in abundance 

 from nests of Formica fusca on the clifl's at Swanage in September 1904 [Ent, 

 Mo. Mag. xl, p. 282 (1904)] ; and Donisthorpe in numbers in a nest of 



