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specimen by searching at the base of the reeds. From a pupa found lying on the 

 mud at the same time I bred Leucania impudent. In this same marsh L.straminea 

 is common, and this year Mr. R. M. Maxwell lias met with L. obsoleta there. 



Plusia moneta. — The spread of this insect into our district has been plainly 

 traceable. In 1896 an example was taken in the neighbouring valley of Pewsey, 

 but the species was not observed here until 1899 ; since then it has been taken each 

 year, and this summer larva? were found and reared. 



Nepticula filipendulce. — In the marsh above-mentioned I captured a specimen 

 which I refer to this species from amongst Spircea ulmaria, on which I imagine it 

 fed. I also took there Nepticula apicella, but I believe Populus tremula is absent 

 from the locality, though P. nigra occurs. 



Nepticula cryptella. — I swept this up from a bank near All Cannings, in the 

 Devizes district. 



Raslerstammia Erxlebella. — I have long been on the look out for this species ; 

 this year a specimen was taken near Bedwyn by H. W. Daltry, one of the College 

 collectors. — E. Meyeick, Elmswood, Marlborough : July 20th, 1902. 



Ceropales variegatus, Fab., at Woking. — I was very pleased to meet yesterday 

 with a beautiful female of this rare Aculeate (the first specimen of it I ever took in 

 England), quite near to my own house. It occurred on the wild carrot, in a large 

 field where I have made other good captures (Calicurgus hyalinatus, Prosopis 

 cornuta and dilatata,&c), but which, I regret to say, is rapidly being swallowed up 

 by villa-building. Just now it is an ideal collecting ground ; but I fear that, in 

 that respect, its days are numbered. — F. D. Morice, Woking: August 6th, 1902. 



Hymenoptera near Hayward's Heath, Sussex. — During a visit at the end of 

 July last to friends residing temporarily in the above neighbourhood, I made one or 

 two brief excursions — rather at random, as I did not know the district at all — in 

 search of Hymenoptera. None of these expeditions lasted much over an hour or 

 so, and the weather was generally rather dull and cold ; yet I came across several 

 species which seem worth recording, and I imagine that under more favourable 

 conditions the locality would repay a longer and more serious exploration. 



The following were among my captures -. — Odynerus leevipes, Shuck., $ ; Pro- 

 sopis cornuta, Smith, $ $ , dilatata, Kirb., <? $ ; Sphecodes longulus, v. Hag., ? ; 

 Halictus pauxillus, Schenck, $ ; Osmia leucomelana, Kirb., ? ; Anthidium mani- 

 catum, Linn., $ . I took also a $ of Prosopis brevicornis, Nyl., with a very oddly 

 coloured clypeus, black on one side and white on the other, but with its other 

 characters (including the armature) those, as far as I could see, of a normal male. 



Afterwards, cycling home to Woking, I met with H. pauxillus again, a mile or 

 two north-west of Horsham ; and also, at the same spot, with both sexes of Ha- 

 lictus lavigatus, Kirb. — Id. 



Wasps in Ireland and Berkshire : a specific comparison. — Messrs. Barrington 

 and Moffat published last year in the Irish Naturalist (vol. x, October, p. 197, 

 et sqq.) an interesting account of the queen wasps killed at Fassaroe during the 



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