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Holland than with us. The Mole Cricket is a nuisance in the gardens 

 in Belgium. 



Perhaps these random notes may stimulate collectors, and lead to 

 additions to our " British List." 



:^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



PiERis KAP.E AT LARtrE IN Februaky. — I thought perhaps it might 

 be worth recording that I captured a nice S specimen of Pieris rapae 

 on the wing on February 13th, 1908, at Ashton Wold. — Fred Palin, 

 Mill House, Ashton, Oundle, Northants. 



Pieris RAP.ii at Lewisham. — The earliest examples of /'. rapae seen 

 here on the wing this year, were coincident with the advent of the fine 

 weather and were observed on May 1st and 2nd. — A. M. Cochrane. 



Lepidopterological notes from Dereham, 1907. — 1 spent a few 

 days in this locality, in mid-Norfolk, last year, from July 21st-29th. 

 The days were mostly fine and bright, the evenings clear, but cool, 

 except the 27th, when it was mild, but with heavy showers. Very few 

 butterflies were seen, the only one abundant being Enodia hypeianthiis. 

 Treacling was absolutely useless, not a single moth appearing on the 

 patches on the two or three occasions on which it was tried. A few 

 things were taken on tree-trunks, these being Lithosia lurideula, Triaena 

 (isi, Apatela aceris, Boaniiia repandata, and Acidalia aversata and ab. 

 sfioliata. All these were taken during a visit in the previous year 

 (1906) in the last week in June, or just a month earlier, which shows 

 the lateness of the season, due to the cold and inclement spring. In 

 addition, the following species were taken at dusk on a piece of marshy 

 ground, but the rise of a white fog generally put a stop to collecting, 

 vh., Xudaria senex (a few), Lithosia ijriseola and ab. fiava, L'osmotriche 

 potatoria, Coenobia rufa, Leacania pallens and L. itupura, Toxocanipa 

 pastinum, Astliena luteata, Acidalia bisetata, A. scutulata, A. incanaria, 

 and A. immutata, and Melanippe unauf/ulata. In the garden Eupithecia 

 isoyranwiaria and E. coronata were taken. It was probably too late 

 for Cerura bifida, but a fine one was taken on a beech-trunk in 1906. 

 Larvae of Cucullia verbasci were very small, and those of Forthesia 

 aurifiua abundant. — W. G. Clutten, 182, Coal Clough Lane, Burnley. 



European specimens of Heliothis wanted. — I am desirous of 

 getting some specimens of the European species of Heiiotlm (placed 

 by Hampson in the genus Cldoridea). If any of your readers have 

 any duplicates of even the most common species, I should like very 

 much to exchange for them any species we may have here in Kentucky 

 that would interest them. I am especially desirous of specimens of 

 Heliothis arm iy era from Europe, though any of the others would be 

 acceptable also. — H. Garman, Agricultural Experiment Station, of the 

 State College of Kentucky, Division of Entomology and Botany, 

 Lexington, Kentucky. 



Formica sanguinea in the Midlands. — With reference to Mr. 

 Wainwright's note in the March number of the Ent. Record, I may 

 say, to prevent any misunderstanding, that my friend Mr. H.Willoughby 

 EUis and myself have been working nests of this ant together for the 

 past year, and, as we had both pointed out to Mr. Wainwright, before 

 the publication of his note, that our joint paper would appear in the 

 March number of the Ent. liecord, with the correct records, it seems 



