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Coleoptera taken in the New Forest in June, 1892.— The following arc more 

 or less interesting : — Conopalpus testaceus, Asclera ftanguinicollis and coerulea, all 

 the four species of Qrammoptera, Anoplodera sexgiittata, Pogonocherus dentatus, 

 Callidium violaceum, Clytus mgsticus, Leptura scutellata, Podahrus alpinus, Elater 

 pomonce, Corymhites bipustulatus, tessellatus, metallicus, and holosericeus, Sericosomus 

 hrunneus, Balaninus turhatus, Orchestes ilicis, Silpha 'i-punctata. — A. J. Chitty, 

 33, Queen's Gate Gardens, S.W. : July, 1892. 



Coleoptera taken at LochAwe,N.B.,in June,1892. — Carahus arvensi/i, Pterostichus 

 cethiops, vitreus, and apparently black versicolor, Patrobus septentrionis, Agahus 

 arcticus, congener, and nitidus (biguttatus), Elater nigrinus, Corymbites impressus, 

 cupreus, tesselatus, quercus, and the var. ochropterus, Sericosomus brunneus, Tele- 

 phorus scoticus,palustrls, and elongatus, the two latter in mai'shy places on the stems 

 of grass and reeds. Elongatus does not appear to be a fir species in the locality. 

 Phynchites cupreus and ceneovirens, Elleschus bipunctatus, Otiorhynchus maurus, 

 Orchestes avellance, Rhamphus Jlavicornis, Erirhinus cethiops (taken at a height of 

 2000 feet), E. tortrix, Gonioctena pallida, Clythra ^-punctata, Megacronus cingu- 

 latus, Anthophagus alpinus, Oeodromicus nigritus, Luperus Jlavipes, Aphodius 

 lapponum, Coccinella 16-guttata, and many other common things. Beetles were 

 very abundant, especially on the flowers of the mountain ash and on young oaks. 

 My stay being short, I was unable to work up the better species, so as to take them 

 in any numbers. — Id. 



Noctua triangulum at Lewisham. — At dusk on the evening of the 12th inst., I 

 found an example of this moth sitting on the wall of a lower room in my house, 

 within a few inches of a door opening into the garden. I do not remember having 

 seen the species in this district so near London in my moth-collecting days, and 

 since then most of the vacant ground has been covered with houses ; so its pi'csent 

 occurrence seems worthy of record. Of course there is the possibility that it may 

 have been introduced with plants. Mr. Adkin informs me that he observed it on 

 two occasions in this vicinity, both about twenty years ago. — E.. McLachlan, 

 Lewisham, London : July 16th, 1892. 



Colias Edusa, — I attended a Meeting of the Belgian Entomological Society at 

 Brussels on the 2nd inst., and made enquiries as to C. Edusa, with the result that 

 no Member present had noticed anything at all unusual this year with regard to 

 that insect. Readers of this Magazine will probably remember a somewhat analogous 

 experience recorded by myself and Prof. Meldola in connection with the autumnal 

 abundance in 1877. See Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xiv, pp. 65 and 110. — lu. : July 

 lUh, 1892. 



Colias Edusa, Sfc, in Gloucestershire. — During the last week in May I several 

 times noticed Vanessa cardui in the garden, and Plusia gamma was very numerous. 

 At the end of the month I took a drive through a portion of North GHoucestershire 

 and the borders of Oxfordshire, and here also V. cardui was continually passing us 

 along the road sides. Returning home the first week in the present month, I found 

 V. cardui very abundant all round the neighbourhood, and Plusia gamma got up 



