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which was bright and hot, I walked in the morning, with two friends, 

 from Clapton, through Wood Street to Chingford, ran)bling in all 

 directions through the Forest, and l>eating bushes for Micros. We saw 

 absolutely nothing ! The 26th and 27th of August I spent at Oxshott. 

 Here I saw a few Coenonyvipha pamphilus, and a friend caught a 

 battered Vanessa atalanta, but the only captures I made during the day 

 were a few Micros. By-the-way, I know of three cases of Smerinthus 

 populi, and one of S. ocellatus emerging this auti;mn, reared from ova 

 laid in the spring. I suppose that is attributable to the weather. — 

 W. W. EsAM, Eagle House, St. Leonards. Septcmher 30th, 1893. [Our 

 experience this season has certainly not been in the direction suggested 

 by our correspondent. True, larva3 have not been common this year 

 as about " the same time last year," but were even in greater abun- 

 dance at an earlier j^eriod. In the New Forest in June, larvte usually 

 taken in late July and August were beaten in hundreds, and full-fed 

 at that time. Vanessa larva^, which should normally be looked for 

 in July, had at that time already disclosed imagines. We bred 

 c-aJbum, urticce, poJycliloros, atalanta and io before the end of June, and 

 a second brood of all these species again during the last four weeks. 

 Lycmna bellargus was over in May and a second brood out in middle of 

 July, whilst L. corydon Avas occurring freely in Kent in the middle of 

 June. This species would have been nearly over, we should think, 

 this year in August, when our correspondent went for them. Does not 

 he explain, too, the absence of the larvfe of Smerinthus populi this autumn, 

 when he records the occurrence of a second brood of imagines at the 

 time when larvae normally occur ? — Ed.] 



COLEOPTEBA IN THE HASTINGS DISTRICT DURING SEPTEMBER. — SillCe 



September 7th I have devoted a great deal of time to Coleoptera, with 

 the following results. Those I have marked with an asterisk * are new 

 to our district list. At Guestling, among dead leaves, refuse heaps, etc. 

 I have taken Euryponis picipes, 5 ; Megacronus inclinans,* 1 ; Habroccras 

 capillaricornis, in numbers ; Lithocharis brumiea, 40 or 50 ; Quedins 

 picipes, common ; Q. peltatus, Q. crmntiis, reared ; Philonthns carhon- 

 arius, 1 ; Othius myrmceophilis, common ; Meyarthrus sinuatocollis* 

 reared ; M. hemipterns, about a dozen in fungi ; Leistotrojihns nebulosus, 

 in fungi ; Homalium jmnctipemie, a few under bark ; Choleva loilkini, 

 abundant ; C. kirbyi* 2 ; C. velox, occasional ; Ayathidium atrum, A. 

 nigrinuvi, A. convexum* A. varians, a few of each ; A. Icecigatum, a 

 series ; AmphicyUis globus, a small series, including one var. ferrugineum ; 

 Anisotoma badia, 1 ; Cephennivm thoracicum, reared ; Alexia pilifera, 

 common on one occasion only ; Lycoperdina bovistce, 1 ; Coccinella 

 lij-guttata, reared; Trachodcs hispidus,!; Liosomus ohlongulus, rare; 

 Acalles ptinoides, a small series ; Ccenopsis waltoni, reared ; Conipora 

 orbicidata, reared ; JJradyccllus disfinctus, abundant ; and many common 

 species : the above are the results of four days' collecting. At 

 Hollington, Epurea longula,* a single example ; Apteropeda globosa, 2, 

 among dead leaves ; Galervcella riburni, a few ; Chilocorus renipiistulatus, 

 a few l)y beating ; and plenty of commoner species, as well as a few of 

 the above {L. brunnea, (fee). At Mai:)lehurst Wood, Epurcea parvula, 

 beaten from faggots ; Bembldium manner heirni, tfec., among dead leaves ; 

 such common insects as Lathrobrium brunnipes, ifcc, were abundant on 

 this occasion. Ore Woods produced, among many others, a few Conurus 

 immacidatas, Melabletus ohseuroguttatus, &c., among dead leaves. On 



