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Barrett notes {Kiit. Mo. Ma//.) a Coleophovid species bred by Mr. 

 "W. C. Boyd from larvne found on leaves of blackthorn, on which they 

 ■were making very white blotches in October, 1900, at Danbury, 

 Essex; only one imago was bred in the spring of 1901, and this 

 ]^)arrett identifies with the birch-feeding Colcopliora nrilripennis, Zell. 

 More material is evidently highly desirable. 



Thouless adds {Ent. Mo. Mai/.) a Coreid bug, Pseudopldaem waltlii, 

 H.-S., a near ally of /'. fallcnii, to the British list ; the specimen was 

 taken on August 5th, 1901, at West Walton, Norfolk. 



In the Kut. Mo. Ma</. for March, Mr. E. A. Newbery records a 

 specimen of Tachys parvnlus Avhich was taken by Mr. H. Heasler, in 

 t<phagnnm, in the New Forest, last June. This is a very remarkable 

 capture ; the species was only known in this country by one specimen, 

 taken by Mr. J. H. Smedley, in 18S4, at roots of Parnassia palustris, 

 from Wallasey sandhills, till 1897, when Mr. Champion took the 

 insect sparingly at Gerran's Bay, Cornwall. 



At the meeting of the Entomological Society of London held on 

 the 19th of March, 1902, ^Ir. G. T'. Porritt exhibited two bred black 

 Larentia )iiultis:triijaria from Huddersfield, and said that the dark form 

 was rapidly increasing in Yorkshire. Of those already emerged and 

 reared from the same brood, three were normal and two dark. 



W^e greatly regret to announce the death of Colonel F. Le Grice, 

 which occurred, after a short illness, at Folkestone, on March 1st. 

 He was an occasional contributor to the magazine. His collection of 

 British butterflies has been left to the Folkestone Museum. 



:^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Lepidoptekolouical notes from the Southend district for 1901. 

 — -Some of the following insects had not been noticed by me in this 

 district before last season, others have of course been already recorded, 

 but the data maybe of service: — Lachneis lanestris, emerged April 5th, 

 having been three, probably more, years in pupa; Euijonia polychloroa, 

 April 7th, two on the wing at Eastwood ; Flriocrania seiiiipurpurella, 

 April 24th, not uncommon at Eastwood ; }\epticida pulverosella, April 

 27th, two specimens only at Eastwood ; Sesia ctiliciformis, April 28tb, 

 two pupje and a fully-fed larva under birch bark, at Eastwood, first 

 emergence May 31st; (hvi.r betnlac, April 28th, on a birch leaf 

 at Eastwood ; ( 'oleophora lineolea, May 2nd, a few cases brought in 

 Tvith various low-growing plants, Lamiiun, Uallota, &c.; Gelechia erice- 

 tdla, ]\Iay 11th, ratlier common at Eastwood ; LWiocolletis viniiniella, 

 May 14th, a single example in one of my pots ; Fhi/eis betnlac, May 

 19th, a few larva! at Eastwood ; Chesias rufata, May 29th, flying over 

 broom at Eastwood ; SmerintJius ocellata, Pterostoma palpina, Hadena 

 t/enistac, emerged June 6th ; Eupoccilia nana, June 8th, at Eastwood ; 

 Chesias sjxtrtiata, .Tune 8th., laryse abundant at Eastwood ; Spilosoma 

 urticae, June 9th, a pair near Great Wakering, from which I got ova, 

 the larva from -which, sleeved on elder, did fairly well, probably would 

 have done better with a more varied diet ; Biiccidatrix crataeyi, June 

 10th, netted near Prittlewell ; Taleporia tubulosa, emerged June 14th ; 

 Enicoatoiiia lobelia, June 15th, netted at Prittlewell ; H. yenistae, June 

 15th, at sugared broom ; Laverna atrella, June 27th, netted at East- 

 wood ; Cnlropliora liniosipennella, June 30th, cases on elm at North 



