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Phacopferi/.v breoipennis, Curt. A perfect ? which flew into light one evening 

 in September, 1900, in Mr. Morley's house at Monks Soham. For some reason 

 this remains one of our rarest species of Neuroptera (cf. McLachlan, Knt. Mo. 

 Mag., 1902, p. 185, where the British occurrences of this insect are discussed). 



CcecUius atricornis, McLach., is another scarce species. The present specimen 

 (which is Mr. Morley's second capture) was swept by him from a ditch at Milden- 

 hall, Suffolk, on September 25th, 1907. The ditch was just dry enough to allow of 

 his walking along the bottom. 



Libel lul a fill va, Miiller, although not so uncommon as it was once considered, 

 is still a fine species to take. The specimen (also a second capture) is from Barnby 

 Broad in Forth Suffolk on July 5th, 1900, the earlier one being from Beccles in the 

 same neighbourhood in 1892 (see Ent. Mo. Mag., 1897, p. 106). 



Sympetrum flaveolum, Linn., from Tuddenham Fen, Suffolk, August 12th, 1906. 

 I have no recollection of having seen any record of a more northerly point being 

 reached by this species in the 190fi immigration. — Kenneth J. Morton, 13, Black- 

 ford Road, Kdinburgh : January 6th, 1908. 



leuiciu. 



Lepidoptera and other Insecta observed in the Parish of Mortehoe, 

 North Devon .- by Gr. B. Longstaff, M.D., K.R.C.P. ; Third Edition. To which 

 is added a List of Lepidoptera noted in Lundy Island by the same : together with 

 a First List of the Land and Fresh Water Mollusca of Mortehoe, by Mrs. G. B. 

 Longstaff (Jane Donald). 8vo, pp. 68. London : Mitchell, Hughes, and Clarke, 

 140, Wardour Street. 1907. 



This well-printed and excellently got-up little brochure treats of a part of the 

 insect-fauna of a particularly interesting district in North Devon, and the very full 

 list of the Lepidoptera (many of which have been already recorded in our pages) 

 differs from most others in the valuable bionomic details appended to many of 

 the species, especially in the butterflies. The lists of Coleoptera, Hemiptera, and 

 Hymenoptera are much less complete, but include a good many interesting and 

 local species, and that of the terrestrial and fresh-water Mollusca by Mrs. Longstaff, 

 though admittedly only a provisional one, shows clearly the exeeedingly good work 

 that has been done in this group. Dr. Longstaff's excellent paper on the Lepido- 

 ptera of Lundy Island, which appeared in our last volume (p. 241, et seq.), is 

 incorporated in the work, which may be said to rank very high among local lists 

 of its kind. 



ituarjj. 



Arthur John Chitty, M.A., F.E.S.— The grief we feel in recording the death 

 of this well known and popular Entomologist will we are sure be shared by all who 

 knew him. After a comparatively short illness he passed away on January 6th at 



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