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Harper collection," and sold for G/-, 1/-, 4/- each respectively. 

 Lot 115 — '^ Xi/liita '.inrhi'iiii, Deal, 1SS(), A. Austin," fetched 5/-; 

 there was also " T. Dstrina, Freshwater, Rogers," which, with 

 73 other insects, went for 5/- ; Ihilctohia fHluiniaria, " Blackheath, 

 Stevens," went for 5/- ; 3 Strrrha sarraiia and 2 Lijtlnia purpKrarid, 

 " Essex, Button," went with HI other insects for 6/-. Is there really 

 no entomologist in the country who can give me information as to 

 Sj/iiia iiiusriddsa and T,i/t/iria jiurjiKraria as British species? — John 

 Bull, London. Ajuil, 189G. 



Early Sallowincj. — On March 21st .Mr. Duncan and myself paid 

 a visit to our favourite early sallow, and to our astonishment found it 

 in full hloom. Having returned home for our sheets, we arrived at it 

 again at half-past seven in the evening, and made three separate 

 shakes, capturing six Trtc^/Zorrtz/^w //o^/z/Vv/, three T. stahilis and three 

 T. iiici'iia, together with a fair number of worn Scdpclo^^iiiia satdlitia, 

 Calocaiiijia I'.ndcta and (hrlidiJia racciiiii. From the appearance of the 

 sallows in the woods they will not be out for at least another fortnight, 

 but this is out in the open, and is always a fortnight before the rest. 

 This is the earliest record I have ever made for the appearance of 

 T. i/dt/iica and 7'. .stahilis. In reading Mr. Tutt's article of March 1st 

 on " Sallowing," it struck me at the time that Dr. Chapman would be 

 unable to carry out his method of working sallows in this district, 

 because all our sallow trees are trees, and not mere shrubs. One tree 

 in particular we are in the habit of Avorking is at least thirty feet high, 

 with a trunk of six feet in circumference, and even the lower branches 

 are ten or twelve feet above our heads. The only way we can work 

 this is by taking one limb of the tree at a time, and Mr. Duncan 

 climbs (I am not a climber) as far as he possibly can to the end of the 

 branch, and there goes through various antics in his endeavours to 

 shake it, which remind one of the habits of some of the large 

 anthropoid apes, for his mutterings and chattering, as a rule, are 

 entirely unintelligible, except perhaps when one of his eyes gets half 

 impaled on a projecting twig, and then one could almost fancy oneself 

 on a dark morning in Billingsgate market. While all these manoeuvres 

 are going on up in the tree, hosts of catkins, earwigs, queen wasps 

 and moths come hailing down upon the sheets and myself, and then 

 my curiosity to look into the sheets has still to wait, as I must show a 

 light to enable Mr. Duncan to find his way down the trunk. We 

 then both start together and search the sheets, going on the principle 

 of " findings, keepings." The only ideal way of working this 

 particular tree would be to spread underneath it the mainsail of a 

 man-of-war, and have ropes attached to the top, with a team of men, 

 who have been well trained in the game of " tug of war," to maniim- 

 late the ropes. I feel sure that if this could only be done we could 

 supply all the collectors in Britain with a full series of all their 

 wants. — Montague Gunning, M.D., Montrose. April '12nd, 1896. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Note on the use of Xanthia. — In recent papers I have noted the 

 fact that Ochsenheimer identifies Wnhwi'v^fulviujo \\\i\\p(dr(ura, hence 

 the true type of Xanthia becomes the latter species. I had hoped to 



