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I got a good series of Orchestes iJicii, F., and one or two var. ni\gripes. Fowl * 

 from oak in the Eden Valley, with a few O. aveUame, Don., with which I will end 

 this short summary of my year's collecting. Those marked with an asterisk are 

 new records for Cumberland. -F. H. Day, Goodwin Terrace, Carlisle : December 

 20th, 1905. 



Quedius riparius, Kelln., in Derbyshire.- -A. single specimen of this insect, 

 originally taken by the late Mr. W. Gr. Blatch at Porlock, Somerset, in 1896, was 

 captured by me on August 28th, 1904, amongst flood refuse, on the margin of the 

 river Wye, about a mile from Bakewell, having probably been washed down from 

 the banks of one of the neighbouring mountain streams ; this example has been 

 identified by Mr. E. A. Newbery.— J. Ktdson-Tayloe, 35, South Avenue, Buxton : 

 January 2\st, 1906. 



Chrysomela cereaJis, L., S^c, on Snowdon. — A short visit to Snowdon in 

 September last was, owing to climatic conditions, very unproductive, my most 

 notable captures being Chrysomela cerealis, L., very sparingly at roots of wild 

 thyme, Lestera sharpi. Rye, under a stone on the mountain side, and Acidota 

 crenata, F., in moss on an old tree in the wood where the path commences the 

 ascent near Llanberis. — Id. 



Occurrence of Argijresthia illuminatella, ZelL, in Britain.— With reference to 

 Mr. E. Meyrick's interesting note under the above heading (Ent. Mo. Mag., Ser. II, 

 xvi, 226), he will, I know, forgive me for pointing out that his statement, that 

 " earlier records " of the occurrence of Argyresthia illuminatella in Britain " were 

 based on the species now known as atmoriella," is not in accordance with the facts, 

 which are as follows. In Ent. Mo. Mag., Ser. II, v, 50-51 (1894), we were distinctly 

 told that A. illuminatella was there added to the British list on the strength of 

 three Scotch specimens, taken at Forres by Salvage, and these three specimens, which 

 I afterwards examined, were subsequently stated by the same authority, in Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., Ser. TI, vii, 98-99 (1896), to be neither illuminatella, Z., nor atmoriella, 

 Bnks., but examples of the form which, although without the rufescent suffusion of 

 the wings mentioned in his original description, was included by Zeller in his series 

 oi prsecocella, Z., and which, it may be added, occurs commonly in Britain in com- 

 pany with the type. Having been the cause of the temporary disappearance of 

 illuminatella from our List, it is particularly gratifying to me to see it at length 

 reliably reinstated therein. 



Of the earlier records of A. illuminatella in Britain, the one by Mr. J. W. Tutt 

 in Ent. Rec, vi, 34 (1895), with which, however, my comments in op. cit., vii, 200, 

 should be compared, alone remains uncancelled. This was based on a solitary indi- 

 vidual bred from among shoots of " fir " (i. e., of Scotch fir, as proved by his remark 

 that they bore " cones " of Retinia resinana) received from Scotland, but since Mr. 

 Tutt's efforts to oblige me with a sight of the moth have hitherto proved futile, and 

 it seems clear from his note that he merely assumed its identity with illuminatella 

 because he had misread the paper (Ent. Mo. Mag., I. c.) wherein this species had 

 been, though, as was afterwards proved, erroneously, reported from Scotland a few 



