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continent, since Bedel says (Col. Bassin de la Seine, 151) that it is found on the 

 margins of ponds under refuse, and in the earth at the roots of heather, banks of 

 rivers, and in sandpits. — E. A. Newbeey, 12, Churchill Road, N.W. 



Lasiosomus enervis, ZT.-6'., near Doddington, Kent. — Mr. Saunders has detected 

 this rare bug amongst some insects taken by me last summer near here. I regret 

 to say I did not know it at first sight (see Saunders' Hemiptera-Heteroptera, p. 92), 

 or possibly I might have taken more, and I cannot say exactly when or how I came 

 across it. — Arthuk J. Chitty, Huntingfield, Faversham Kent : Dec. '60th, 1901. 



Pentatoma fuscispina on the North, Essex Coast. — On August 19th last 1 was 

 fortunate enough to capture a specimen of this rare species on the North Essex 

 Coast. Mr. Saunders, in his "British Hemiptera-Heteroptera," says that only six 

 British examples are known to him, all of which were taken in Devonshire. — 

 Bernard S. Harwood, 94, Station Road, Colchester : February, 19U2. 



Nomada armata at Colchester. — In June, 1901, I captured five or six examples 

 of the rare Nomada armata near Colchester, together with both sexes of Andrena 

 Hattorjiana. One $ of the latter was a fine specimen of the red banded variety. 

 N. armata had not previously been taken in Essex, and the red form of A. Hattor- 

 jiana had not been seen since 1887. — Id. 



Papilio Machaon at Chippenham Fen. — Mr. Dale, in his " Historical Notes on 

 Papilio Machaon " (pp. 37 and 38 ante) says, " it is still common in Wicken Fen, 

 Cambridgeshire, but not in Chippenham Fen, only a few miles away." Although I 

 have never seen the perfect insect in Chippenham Fen it must occur there, as the 

 larvas have been taken feeding on Angelica sylvestris. The milk parsley (Peuceda- 

 num palustre), the ordinary food plant of Machaon in Wicken Fen and in the 

 Norfolk Fens, does not occur at Chippenham. — H. Goss, Surbiton : February, 1902. 



Abundance of Dasypolia templi near Halifax. — When I first began to take an 

 interest in Entomology forty years ago this insect was apparently scarce, and very 

 difficult to obtain in any condition, and a perfect specimen was a great rarity. At 

 that time its food plant was unknown, and its only known haunt was at the bottom 

 of stone heaps on the sides of the high roads, which were placed there pending the 

 repair of the road. Mr. Porritt, in his List of Yorkshire Lepidoptera, writes, 

 " Our County has always been considered head-quarters for this moth, and by far 

 the majority of cabinets in the country have been supplied with specimens from the 

 South-West Riding, in some parts of which it is very common." A man who was 

 a good and ardent entomologist, James Varley, and who lived at Almondbury Bank, 

 near Huddersfield, spent much time in the winter months in turning over stone heaps, 

 and was often successful in getting the imago during its hibernation. Some years 

 ago the Halifax Town Council extended the radius of their Borough boundary, and 

 consequently the lighting of their roads, and I soon found that these lights had at- 

 tractions for the insect, and I could take a dozen or so during the months of Octo- 



