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as G. nymphxpp in the same list, I now understand should be G. sagittariae, but 

 as all of them were handed to Mr. Fergvxsson some time since for reference, and 

 are still in his possession, I cannot with much confidence draw comparisons ; 

 besides the great difference in the length of the second joint of the antennae, 

 which I pointed out at the time, I believe there is also a greater difference in 

 the shape of the thorax than Mr. Fowler points out. — Andrew Adie Dalglish, 

 21, Prince's Street, Pollokshields, Glasgow : October, 1910. 



Capture of Ohcerocampa nerii. — On September 24th a fine specimen of 

 Chcerocampa nerii was taken on a lamia at Sydenham, and is now in the Joicey 

 Collection, Bourne End, Bucks. — A. Noakes, The Homestead, Botime End, 

 Bucks. : Odoher 18th, 1910. 



Luperina gueneei, Dbl., on the Lancashire Coast. — Luperina gueneei, reinstated 

 in the British List at the end of last year, from specimens taken on the Lanca- 

 shire Coast, where over three dozen examples were secured at St. Annes-on-the- 

 Sea in September, 1909, was this year, to my own knowledge, again taken in 

 considerable numbers diiring the latter half of Augiist and first half of Sep- 

 tember. As it has now been reported from near Blackpool, St. Anne's-on-the- 

 Sea, and Southport, on the Lancashire Coast, in addition to the original locality 

 at Ehyl in North Wales, it is evident that it has a fairly wide range on the 

 sandhill districts of the West Coast of Britain, and the marvel is, that it has 

 so long remained undetected since it was first described and named from the 

 Ehyl specimens by the late Henry Doiibleday in the " Entomologist's Annual " 

 for 1864, p. 123. The species seems to vary but little, in this respe.ct differing 

 greatly from Luperina testacea, which, on the Lancashire Coast as in many other 

 localities, shows a great range of variation ; gueneei is very constant to its 

 rather bright grey colouring, varying a little from pale to darker. Several very 

 dark melanic specimens were, however, taken this year, biit there was apparently 

 little tendency to intermediates between the comparatively rare melanic and 

 the type forms. — Geo. T. Porritt, Dalton, Huddersfield : October llth, 1910. 



Nomada argentata, H.-Sch., near Oxford. — On August 7th last I was 

 collecting near Tubney, Berks, when, during a very brief period of simshine, 

 I netted, from a small patch of Knautia arvensis, a male and female Nomada 

 argentata ; and at the same time and place a few Andrena cetii, Schr., with which 

 this Nomada is usually associated. It is interesting to find this very rare 

 inquiline in a new district so far from the few localities from which the species 

 has hitherto been recorded. It was first taken by the late Mr. S. Stevens, at 

 Arundel, and described under the name of N. atrata by Mr. F. Smith. Sub- 

 sequently, the late Mr. Edward Saimders and the Eev. F. D. Morice captured 

 both sexes at West Clandon, Surrey, and near Woking {vide Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 1900, p. 204; and 1901, p. 278). I feel sure that if looked for where its host 

 A. cetii occurs, the distribution of N. argentata would be found to be more 

 general than is usually supposed. — A. H. Hamm, 22, Southfield Eoad, Oxford : 

 October 18th, 1910. 



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