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set Gilt for Oxtefl and Limpsfield Common. From a small pond I 

 managed to fish out with my hands a couple of Halij)lus lineatocolliti 

 and one Ht/drochiis an/itiatatits; I had no water-net with me or should 

 certainly have found more. Two Aphodjus prodrntnua, Taclii/pnrtis 

 Ju/pnnni)n, and one Tnc/iojitcri/x atomnria (?) completed the list. On 

 March 31st my father and I went to Ranmore. From a dead missel- 

 thrush I took one Vldhintliux rnirntatiis, Catopn sericea, two L(ithriinrii)ii 

 atroci'phalinn, Onioaita ilisroidca, ten Siljdia rtuiosa, and a large number 

 of J'ruteiiiits ()vali><. In a pond near Ranmore Church I found Ai/aliiis 

 nehidosita and two ('()i'laiid)iis rtDitlitois, one Siljilui atrata in moss, a 

 P/ii/Uotn'ta nodicomis flying in the sunshine, and a few commoner 

 species also turned up. A friend brought me six Criiptorrlnjnclnia 

 lapatlii which he had taken on osiers near Streatham on April 19th. 

 During the last week of April a few beetles were collected for me at 

 Ilfracombe, among which were Lerna melanopa, Chri/soituia nian/inalis, 

 Kn»pltah'nitii prii/iidat', Mi'loc prosearabeiis, and 3/. violocrits; both the 

 ''oil-beetles" were females, and very full of eggs. Whitsuntide 1 

 spent at Tilehurst, near Reading, and took, among others, the follow- 

 ing: — l'/iaedo)i annnraciae, Anrho)iient(s albijiex (\ery common), lihchnis 

 viaitrus, one ( 'nssida iiohiUs, and Di'i-ynestcs )nnrini(ii with larvfP, and 

 Xitidida bipiixtidata from a gamekeeper's "gallows." In June I bred 

 a large number of Jhni/tounis Duicidatus from sallow-catkins, which my 

 father had gathered for breeding Xanthiids and other moths. I also 

 took a specimen of Mcn/dalis harbicornis and two Tnxr scaber at Sti'eat- 

 ham. Liiperns rujipcs, Di'poraiiff brtnlae, one Balaninns tiirbatits, one 

 Ch(dfra HsfclDidcs, a^nd many others were taken at Wimbledon Common 

 during the month. On June 26th we went to Coldharbour and Leith 

 Hill ; my captures included one KlaUf baltratits and Lochmea snttiralis 

 (on heather), and many commoner species. At Tilehurst a Mcdachins 

 aeneus, Ci/phon coarctatiifi, and some Ihmaciae (limbata, ruh/aris, and 

 tiiiiiplf.r) from the banks of the Kennett ^ were taken on June 

 29th. The beginning of August I spent in North Devon. At 

 Ilfracombe I found Traclnijddocus seabricidiis, one Ocijptis ater, 

 and (hdt'Diera cocndea (of which the females were far more plentiful 

 than the males). On August 2nd — the only wet day during the fort- 

 night — I was at Woolacombe, and found Laf/ita /tirta, Aeijialia arenaria, 

 Calat/iiis fiisciis, sind (J. innlliH all commonly on the sandhills; Jlelio- 

 patJu'H ijlbbti.s also turned up, but the rain soon put an end to my col- 

 lecting, and I had to return to the railway station, very wet, and wait 

 two hours for a train back to Ilfracombe. At Torrington, on August 9th, 

 I obtained, among others, a couple of Harpalns net/lectuH (under stones), 

 and Onthupa<iiis m-atn^ and (). t'racticonu's. One Oci/pus ater and a 

 Harpalus tardm from Woking, and some (jryninetron antirrhini from 

 Bexley, were the only fresh species found until November 28th, when 

 Ptiniifi fur turned up in a cellar in Birchin Lane, E.G. I may add 

 that Mr. J. E. Robson sent me some Longicornes and other things 

 recently, including one Muiiu/iainiiuis ftiitor, four M. sartor, and one 

 M. titillator, Fab., all taken by himself in timber-yards at Hartlepool. 

 — J. LoFTUs Henderson, 7, Pinfold Road, Streatham, 8.W. 



:^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Vagaries in the emergence of Eupithecia absynthiata. — I have, 

 during the past year been breeding Knpithnia absijnthiata from ova 



