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the original parent borings, and filled with countless myriads of larvfe. 

 The holes made by the parent beetle are almost always situated in the 

 crevices of the bark, and the larvas are usually found in the bark, 

 though also on the wood. In many cases I found the whole interior 

 of the bark, for a space of several square feet, reduced to powder. 

 On August 14th I took the first perfect insects, just emerged. They 

 were all of small size, from If to 2 lines. The dead parent beetles, 

 found in the same tree, varied from 2^ to 3'" . There are two broods, 

 one emerging in May — June, the other in August — • September, 

 the former being larger. I have noticed this difference in many 

 other species. There can be no doubt that, when plentiful, this 

 insect does attack perfectly sound and healthy trees. I fear, therefore, 

 that the Warwickshire elms have a bad time coming. This destruc- 

 tive beetle is well known in London, having destroyed many fine 

 elms in Kensington Gardens; and, in 1825, a fine avenue of elms in 

 Camberwell Grove was ruined by them. It has also done great 

 damage in France, Germany and Belgium. It is, therefore, to be 

 hoped that measures will be taken to stay its ravages, by at once 

 destroying the bark of the infected timber. — E. A. Elliott, 41, 

 Holland Park, W. 



Further note on Boletobia fuliginaria at Hull. — I have 

 been to see the captor of the specimen of Boletobia fitlii/inaria, 

 recorded ante,]). 245. It is a Mr. Keeble, 3, Victor Street, Holderness 

 Road, Hull. He is not a collector, but he boxes insects for his 

 l)rother-in-law, ^Ir. Russell, Avhen he sees any. He was working all 

 night in the ship-yard (either on the 21st or 28th of August), when 

 the moth came to the light (al)out 12.20 midnight). He put it in a 

 match-box, laid it on one side, and it was forgotten for some days. 

 When he remembered it again it was dead and stift'. This accounts 

 for its being loose on the pin (antt', p. 246). I think it was bred in 

 the neighbourhood, for there is an abundance of fungi on rotten wood, 

 iu the timber yards, timber ponds and docks, near which it was found. 

 — J. W. BouLT, 9, Finsbury Grove, Fountain Road, Hull. October ISt/i, 

 1896. 



Collecting near Bury (Suffolk) ix 1896. — On the Warrens in 

 the Bury neighbourhood, larvte of Dianthoecia irregulnris, ]>. car- 

 pophaga and Ghariclea umbra (marginata) were unusually abundant 

 this season. HeUothis dipsaceus was also fairly abundant in the 

 larval stage, chiefly on Lychnis vespertina. Both broods of Acidalia 

 rubricata were on the wing in fair numbers on the "\\'arrens this 

 season. Ghoerocampa porcellus was fairly abundant in my garden 

 at the blossom of Centranthus (red valerian). Hecatera serena larvJE 

 were also abundant on the blossom of Crepis rirens, whilst Eupithccia 

 iinariata and E. coronata (?) larvae have been locally common on 

 certain patches of Linaria and Eupatorivm respectively. Sugar has 

 been a failure with me this season, until the end of August, since when 

 MeUinia gilrago, Polia flavicincta, Ancltocelis pistacina and A. litura 

 have been fairly numerous, Noctua c-nigram and Agrotis segetum a 

 few, with only one each of Scopelosoma sateUitia and Cali/mnia 

 diffinis, and two or three each of Hijpena rostralis and Brotolomia 

 meiicidosa. The larvae of Cuc^dlia vcrbasci were in fair numbers, 

 and those of Krio(/aster lanestris were abundant in Norfolk, on the 

 roadsides between Dereham and Foulsham, whilst Plmia chn/son 



