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the spit, and high tides had covered with sand what was left of the saltwort 

 that the drought had spared. However, a careful search on this and especially 

 under dry drift yielded a few Helops pallidus, a species which my friend, 

 Mr. T. Stainforth of Hull and I had turned up in great numbers the previous 

 year. There was no need to dig for it as Fowler advises ; nearly all the speci- 

 mens were obtained by giving a blow to the saltwort, when the beetles fell out 

 and either lay still or languidly crawled away. The season closed for me with 

 a visit for the week-end in early November to my friend, Mr J. Gardner, at 

 Hart. Here Hydnobii and Anisotom.se were the objective, but unfavourable 

 weather spoiled collecting, the only interesting species that occurred being 

 A. rugosa. — Geo. B. Walsh : Febritary. 1914. 



* Sirex juvencus, L., and Monochamus sartor, L., in Yorkshire. — At the Annual 

 Meeting of the South-West Yorkshire Entomological Society, held at the house 

 of the Secretary, Mr. J. Hooper, Middlestown, near Wakefield, on January 17th, 

 that gentleman exhibited two female examples of the true Sirex juvencus, L., 

 which had been brought to him from the local colliery. They had been in his 

 possession for some years. The right of this species to a place on the visitors' 

 list now no longer rests on the single example, also a Yorkshire one, referred to 

 ante, vol. xliv, p. 101. At the same time and place the same gentleman also 

 exhibited a fine female Monochamus sartor, L., which had been brought to him 

 alive by a neighbour last August. It was dug from an old stmnp in the garden 

 and thus appears to have bred there. Mr. Hooper very generously gave me the 

 specimen. The only other Yorkshire example of which I have any knowledge 

 was a fine male which was in the collection of Mr. A. Paterson of Doncaster 

 and had been taken by him from timber at the Plant works. This specimen, 

 which was undoubtedly an importation, is now lost. — E. G. Bayford, 2, 

 Rockingham Street, Barnsley : February 9th, 1914. 



Notes on Lepidoptera in Surrey in 1913. — Owing to our being unable to 

 spend much time in our usual collecting grounds, we have but little of interest 

 to record as the result of last year's work ; however, the following captures, etc., 

 may be worth mentioning. A search among fallen aborted spruce cones in a 

 locality not far from Tilf ord resulted in the discovery of two larvae of Cateremna 

 terebrella among a considerable number of empty pupa skins ; on May 29th we 

 were fortunate enough to breed a ? of this species, and a $ about a month 

 later. Mr. Thurnall has already recorded C. terebrella from the county (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., vol. xlii, p. 180) and suggested that we should look for further speci- 

 mens. At Woking, Laspeyresia cosmophorana was not scarce in May, flying 

 round young pines at dusk, together with a very few examples of Pammene 

 ochsenheimeriana. Eucosma micana was also taken at Woking on June 21st, 

 with Crambus dumetellus. At Frimley, at the beginning of August, Eucosma 

 ericetana and E. antiquana flying amongst Stachys palustris were taken. Finally, 

 we have bred a fair number of Alucita lienigianus from larvae found on Artemisia 

 vulgaris at Woking. — H. G. and E. J. Champion, Oxford : February 3rd, 1914. 



