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1 took a specimen of this insect at Wicken Fen on April 24tli, 

 1910, and another at the same place on July 30th. Both were 

 obtained by sifting sedge-refnse. As it is obviously unknown in this 

 country, it was sent to Capt. St. Claire Deville, who returned it as new 

 to science. 



(DRTHOPTERA. 



Anisolabis ANiNULirEs, LucAs, IN SCOTLAND. — In November last, 

 while searching for coleoptera in a bakery here, I obtained a specimen 

 of an earwig which was new to nie, and on examination proved to be 

 the above species. An extended search yielded some 80 odd specimens, 

 including one or two larva?. According to Dr. Burr, in his Biitiah 

 Ortlioptera, the species was first noticed in this country by Mr. Swale, 

 in a bakery at Tavistock. It is interesting to find the species located 

 here also in a bakery. Probably, if searched for, it would be found 

 quite common in such places. How long the species may have been 

 established here it is impossible to say. I am much indebted to 

 Dr. Burr for confirming the identification of the species. — George A. 

 Bkown, Sunnyside Road, Coatbridge. 



:ig^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Argyresthia andereggiella. — This species was taken near the 

 " Wake Arms," Epping Forest, on August 5th, 1909, and again at 

 Fairhill, Tonbridge, very abundantly on August 3rd-22nd, 1910, 

 among apple and hazel nut, but going over by August 20th. — P. A. 

 and D. A. J. Buxton, School House, Rugby. December, 1910. 



Fredericina calodactyla (zetterstedtii). — I w-as unable to go for 

 the larvae of this species until May 22nd. I then found that none of 

 the wood very near where I discovered larvte last year had been cut 

 down, so I searched in the neighbouring high wood and succeeded in 

 finding about a dozen, but only after much patient searching. Two 

 or three had already pupated, the little pupte being about half exposed. 

 The first one emerged on .June 7th. The insect appears to favour 

 one part of the wood only — a few acres in the centre. I asked Mr. T. 

 Blest, who was visiting North Devon, to look out for larvae there. He 

 found half-a-dozen near Wooda Bay, and formed the opinion that they 

 are commoner there than in Kent. Of these, two only emerged on 

 June 7th and 10th respectively. — Edward Goodwin,F.E.S., Canon 

 Court, Wateringbury. December 10th, 1910. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Retarded pupation of Spilosoma lubricepeda, and prebiature 

 emergence of Triph.ena pronuba. — The following notes may be of 

 some interest in view of the curious weather we have experienced this 

 autumn. I was keeping a large number of larvae of Spilosoma Inbri- 

 rc/^fr/fl in the hope that "something would turn up." They pupated 

 at various times, from the end of August, through September and 

 October. At the end of October one larva was still feeding, but 

 during the last few days of that month it spun a cocoon and prepared 

 for the change. A cold spell ensued early in November, and after that 



