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Natural History Society, the pleasant duty devolves upon me of 

 recording some very interesting captures by our "Associates." The 

 insects recorded below were sent me for identification or verification 

 by my friend, Mr. John Taylor, of Sandown, Isle of Wight, and were 

 duly exhibited at the meeting of the society on November 12th. 

 Leucania unipuncta {=extranea), a male in fairly good, though not 

 perfect, condition, was taken on September 10th. Gelaena haworthii, 

 a very unexpected addition to the Isle of Wight fauna, turned up on 

 August 16th ; it is an exceptionally large specimen of the brightly- 

 coloured and variegated form, which I believe to represent Curtis' type. 

 Hadena dissimilis, a very small second-brood example of the extreme 

 dark form (ah. confluens, Ev., fide Tutt) was taken on September 2nd. 

 I have myself taken a few of the moderate unicolorous forms (ab. 

 w-latinum, Esp.) at Sandown, but have nothing nearly so extreme as 

 Mr. Taylor's example, except from York. All the three specimens 

 were taken at sugar. — Louis B. Prout, F.E.S., The Elms, 216, 

 Richmond Road, N.E. November 12th, 1907. 



Ruralis betul.e near Heybridge. — It may be of interest to record 

 that a Ruralis betulae was caught on October 3rd near here, as it is an 

 addition to the recorded Essex localities noted in the Nat. Hist. Brit. 

 Butts., ii., pt. 12, p. 316. It was the last day of the fine dry weather. 

 I was out shooting and picked it off a flower. I intended going next 

 day to look for more, but that night the rain set in and continued 

 tor some days, so that it was of no use to do so. — E. E. Bentall, 

 F.E.S., The Towers, Heybridge, Essex. November 8th, 1907. 



Introduction of Anosia plexippus. — I want to introduce this 

 butterfly here, and I should be much obliged if any of the readers of 

 the Entomoloyist's Record could assist me in obtaining a quantity of 

 ova or pupa. Perhaps American readers would be able to assist. 

 Failing the above species, any other North American species, having 

 a foodplant which is well distributed here, would answer my purpose. 

 —Id. 



OLEOPTERA. 



Magdalis phlegmatica, Herbst, in England. — It will be worth 

 while to record the occurrence of this weevil south of the Tweed, as 

 hitherto it has been reputed a Scotch species, the only note of its 

 having been taken in an English locality being apparently that given 

 by Canon Fowler {Brit. Col., vol. v., p. 397). The record in question 

 is of a single specimen from the Portsmouth district, to which, 

 however, some doubt attaches in the opinion of Canon Fowler. While 

 collecting on a "moss" at Kirkhampton, near Carlisle, in May last, 

 1 swept two specimens from long herbage on the banks of a little 

 stream overhung by fir-trees, but, although I beat the trees on that and 

 two subsequent occasions, no further specimens resulted. 1 hope, 

 however, to meet with the species again another season. Three 

 other species of Magdalis occur in Cumberland — all sparingly; 

 carbonaria, L., by beating birch at Orton woods, arjnigera, Faure, in 

 the Gelt valley and Barron Wood, and pruni, L., in Barron Wood 

 also. The late T. C. lleysham. the pioneer of entomology in 

 Cumberland, took both M. carbon aria and M.armigera on the West Walks 

 of Carlisle, probably on trees in some of the gardens there. — F. H. 

 Day, F.E.S., 151, Goodwin Terrace, Carlisle, October 2~>th, 1907. 



