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Stigmatised as really " weak." There are still members who write no 

 notes of interest, and who look on the matter perhaps as a mere matter 

 of exchange, but they are very few, and I am firmly convinced that 

 many men have been led to record useful observations, which they 

 would never have dreamed of submitting directly to any magazine, 

 but which have been freely discussed in the semi-privacy of the Club 

 note-book. 



Our membership is generally full, sufficient collectors being intro- 

 duced to the baskets by friends, but if any fairly efficient collector 

 would like to join, I shall be very pleased to receive his name and will 

 let him know when there is a vacancy he can fill, but he must under- 

 stand that, although he is free to exchange privately as much as he 

 pleases, he must reserve sufficient duplicates for the basket through the 

 winter months. — J. W. Tutt. February ^th, 1892. 



PsELNOPHORUS BRACHYDACTYLUS. — In your excellent paper on " The 

 Pterophorina," Eiit. Rec.^ vol. iii., p. 33, you appear to throw a doubt 

 on the right of Pselnophorus brachydactylus to be considered as a 

 British species. You may perhaps not be aware that I possess and 

 have had for about forty years, the first specimen recorded of this 

 species taken in England. This was captured in Norfolk, a fact that 

 was at the time well known to Stainton. I had it placed in my hands 

 at the time by a friend of mine, who was, I believe, the captor. His 

 name was Furr. He died, and it has been with me ever since. — 

 J. Jenner Weir, Beckenham. February i()th, 1892. 



I believe the first specimen of Pselnophorus brachydactylus that was 

 captured to be in the possession of Mr. Jenner Weir. The second 

 specimen was taken at Carlisle by a local collector from whom I 

 bought it for 2d., with a number of Platyptilia pallidactyla. It was 

 sent on to Stainton to be named, and is now, I believe, in the Rev. 

 Henry Burney's collection. — J. B. Hodgkinson. March, 1892. 



Single-brooded species in the North of England. — Cidaria 

 silaceata in this locality in a state of nature is distinctly single-brooded. 

 I never have taken an imago of Cidaria silaceata later than the be- 

 ginning of July, and bred specimens always emerge about three weeks 

 before I take any of the same specimens on the wing in a state of 

 nature. I keep the larva and pupa of C. silaceata in a cold frame, and, 

 as I have said before, I have only once had two insects emerge at 

 the end of August. I have been wondering if Mr. Robson keeps his 

 pupae indoors. I think he must, to have insects emerging on 22nd 

 November. Another species which is distinctly single-brooded in this 

 neighbourhood, and that is Selenia bilunaria {illunaria), the imago 

 emerges in May, and there is no July brood in this locality. — J. Finlay, 

 Meldon Park, Morpeth. January 12th, 1892. 



Apatura iris. — I saw several specimens of this species here at the 

 beginning of August, and I think it is probably not very rare here. 

 Thecla betulce and Limenitis sybilla also occur. — E. W. Bowell, Sissing- 

 hurst Vicarage, Staplehurst, Kent. 



Prionus coriarius. — In September last, I took a specimen of this 

 beetle on a tree in Epping Forest. Mr. Mutch kindly identified it for 

 me. — J. McCiECHiE, 59, Grenville Road, Hornsey Rise, N. 



Notes from Chinnor. — Last season was a very good one here for 

 moths, but bad for butterflies. Sugar was very attracti/e, my best 



