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Sept. 27th. — Wasp {I'espa viiljiaris $ ) observed to catch and carry 

 •off a fly. It is as well to record such cases as some entomologists 

 have expressed doubts on the subject. In the Irish Xatiiralist 

 [28 107 (1919)] I recorded various instances. 



Sept. 27th. — Otiorhynchns scabroaiis, Marsh, in garden. 



Oct. 23rd. — Oci/piis oUuh, Miill. running on pavement. 

 ,, 24th. -Male wasp {Vespa viihjaris ^ ) flying in garden. 

 „ 29th. — PfieiidoroccKs (/ahani, Green. I noticed large numbers 

 of this Coccid on the trunk of a tree in Oakhill Koad. I took some of 

 the leaves to the Museum and am informed it is Lahiirnum rnliiaris. 

 The leaves are pointed, whereas the leaves of a Laburnum tree in my 

 garden are rounded. The Coccids are still as abundant today, Dec. 

 26th, as they were in October. Last year I recorded the capture of 

 specimens on my study window ; these I subsequently traced to the 

 creeper on the wall outside. 



Nov. 5th. — The " woolly apple aphis" {Erumninx lani<jerniii) again 

 •abundant on the same shrub {Cotoncaster sp.) in my front garden. 



Nov. 6th. — IHerostichtis madidiis, F. on path in road. 



Dec. 10th. — Hihernia defoliaria, a specimen in the porch of 

 my house. 



IS^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



References for Digne in July-August. — K)it. lleand, vol. xix., p. 

 154, 222; vol. xxii., p. 9; vol. xxiii., p. 173; vol. xxiv., p. 67, 99; 

 vol. xxvi., p. 220. Ent. Mo. Ma(f., vol. xxvi., p. 280. Ent., vol. xxiii., 

 p. 78; vol. xxxii., p. 104; vol. xxxviii., p. 49; vol. xl., p. 78; vol. 

 xliv., p. 5 ; vol. xlv., p. 96, 133. 



References for Grindelwald. — I''nt. lu'cord, vol. xvi., p. 305 ; vol. 

 xxiv., p. 288. Evidently a locality wbich has been, to say the least, 

 not patronised by entomologists. It is well worth a visit, as many 

 species in our series testify. — Hy.J.T. 



[Other lists will be published in mid-June if readers will send a 

 card stating their locality at once. No replies will be sent by post.] 



Hibernation of Pyrameis atai.anta. — This morning I captured in 



the garden here a female Pi/iameis atalanta feeding at Aubretia 

 blossom. The day was bright with a cold north wind. On 1st of the 

 month we had Ave inches of snow followed by a thaw and a hard 

 frost that night. The 2nd was fairly fine, but the 3rd brought nearly 

 two inches of snow and sleet. The Quantock Hills, some six miles to 

 the south and west being still covered with snow. After the bad 

 weather of the past week it is hardly possible that /'. atalanta can be 

 an immigrant. I am keeping the insect to try to obtain a batch of 

 ■eggs. — (Oapt.) Robert Troup, The Grove, Wimbledon, Dridgwater, 

 April 4.tli. 



Pyramkis atalanta in Spring. — While in the woods to-day (April 

 30th), I saw P. atalanta visiting sloe-blossom. Taking the recent 

 severe weather into consideration 1 conceive it is much too early for 

 4in immigrant. — Edwin P. Sharp, 1, Bedford well Pioad, Eastbourne. 



