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upon flowers in the railway cutting. I searched Ualium immi for 

 larvae of Sesia stellatarani or Theretm porcellns, and, although I was 

 not successful, nevertheless the latter were present, for I found frass 

 indicative of that species in quantity. I did very little amongst the 

 Noctuids, still, I tool\ a fair number. The first I took was what I 

 set down as a worn 'J'ajiiucstola di/nii, Hying along the seashore. In 

 addition to the two Dianthoccias mentioned above, I took small larvae 

 of D. cticubali upon Silenc injiata, upon the railway-side. Common 

 enough also were small larva' of lladota pisi, upon rest-harrow, 

 accompanied by a few more lleliotliis mnbra, amongst which I got one 

 of the purple-brown form. At rest, upon a wall, I took one AjiUcta 

 inridta and a few Xoctna .ranthoiiraji/ia. As I knelt down to pick up a 

 larva of 1>. cucubali, I found a dark female of yvcttia uinbnjsa, which 

 obligingly laid a batch of ova. Upon all the walls wherever one 

 went were quantities of nice variable Bryophila peiia. Upon rag- 

 wort, at night, I boxed Leiicania palleim, Miana litemsa, Tripiltaena 

 cornea (orbona), Xoctua xanthixjrapha, Apawea ociilea, and Af/rotis 

 corticea [Very late. Ed.] . These species were all I saw, but still 1 

 felt amply repaid for my holiday, as I had met with larva- of several 

 species I had never seen in their early stages before,- — -J. \V. H. 

 Hakrison, IkSc, The Avenue, Birtley, R.S.O., Durham. Xoron- 

 h,r 21 tl,, 1904. 



Autumnal lepidoptera in the New Forest and I3romley. — A few 

 days in the New Forest in October last, gave me the impression that 

 the results of autumnal sugar there were inferior. Most of the usual 

 insects occurred, bnt not in numbers, and the most noticeable point 

 was the large number of Geometrids, chiefly Thera cariata, but with 

 many T. finnata and (idaria psittacata that were attracted on one 

 particular evening. Towards the end of August, sugar appeared to be 

 particularly attractive here, but the quality was, as usual, poor, the 

 best insect captured being Lirr/idcilia .irrawpelina. — B. W. Adkin, 

 F.E.S., Trenoweth, Hope Park, Bromley, Kent. Octobn- 2Ht/i, 1904. 



AuTiMXAE i.EPmoPTERA AT BoscoJiBE. — It may be worth while 

 noting that 1 captured an example of Ai/lina scniibritnnea at sugar 

 here, recently, the first I have ever seen in the district. It is odd that 

 a comparative rarity like A', scniibrunnea should occur at sugar, whilst 

 most of the usual common species — Ort/tosia uuu-ilenta, Anc/iorilis 

 liinasa, Sec, were absent. Ivy is only attracting Orthasia nmcilcnta and 

 Onhociia upadirea. — (Major) R. B. Rohertson, Forest View, South- 

 borne Road, Boscombe. Xovembn- ]st, 1904. 



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We should esteem it a great favour if any lepidopterist — (1) who 

 has bred any species by crossing a typical form with its variety or 

 aberration, e.;/., npandata and vnnicrsai ia, jirunaiia and sordiata, 

 aitrsata and rciimtata, lifia and lutescois, liibriciju'da and radiata, 

 wiinaclia and crctnita, bvtidaria and doiiblcdayaria, u»iicr<i)ian'a and 

 obsolrta, jilantaiiiniK and hosjiita, &c., and has a record of the results ; 

 or (2) who has already published such results— will send us the 

 reference, or a short summary of the experiment, for publication in a 

 technical paper on " Hybridism and Mongrelisation," which we have 

 largely prepared for the 6th volume of lliitisli L, piditpti'ia. What we 



