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few town-dwellei'S realize) there are no cockroaches in the 

 country. 



Survey parties, consisting in the entomological section of 

 officials from both Edinburgh and Dublin Museums, as well as 

 private collectors, have again been investigating the fauna and 

 flora of Clare Island and the adjacent mainland of Co. Mayo 

 this season. The weather has been unusually anticyclonic for 

 that district, and the bays very full. The Survey will end with 

 the present seasou, and Mr, R. LI. Praeger, of the Dublin Library, 

 will be glad of English assistance on Clare during the autumn. 



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NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Sterrha sacraria in Scotland. — I have pleasure in recording 

 the capture of a female specimen of Sterrha sacraria on August 18th. 

 My boy saw the moth flying in the afternoon over a patch of grass 

 near my house. Being without a net, he caught it wdtli his hand, 

 consequently the specimen was not in cabinet condition. — L. G. 

 EssoN ; 376, George Street, Aberdeen. 



LiMENITIS SIBYLLA (LePIDOPTERA) IN SURBITON. — Dr. R. N. 



Goodman tells me that he found a "White Admiral" on a gravel 

 walk on Surbiton Hill, on July 8th last. Of course this may only be 

 an escape, but it seems well to record the occurrence, as the species 

 has been found in several places in Surrey of late years. — W. J. 

 Lucas ; Kingston-on-Thames. 



CoLiAS HYALE IN SouTH Wales. — A Specimen of Colias hijale was 

 taken on the sandhills near Porthcawl, one day last week, by Mr. 

 David Nicholl, of Laleston House, Bridgend.— (Mrs.) M. D. B. 

 Nicholl; The Cottage, Merthyr Mawr, Bridgend, August 21st, 

 1911. 



COLIAS HYALE (LePIDOPTERA) IN THE IsLE OF WiGHT. — Mr. E. A. 



C. Stowell tells me that he took five examples of this butterfly out of 

 one clover-field at Freshwater, August 12-13th last. Since then he 

 saw no others there, or elsewhere, in the island. — W. J. Lucas ; 

 Kingston-on-Thames. 



CoLiAS HYALE IN BucKS. — On the 14th inst., while crossing a grass 

 field near Bourne End, Bucks, I saw a specimen of Colias hyale settle 

 on a solitary flow'er-head of clover. Unfortunately I had not my net 

 with me, but after a httle careful " stalking," I managed to secure it 

 under my hat! It is a perfect male. — E. S. A. Baynes ; 120, 

 Warwick Street, S.W., August 16th, 1911. 



Colias hyale near Norwich. — On August 7th I liad the good 

 fortune to capture a specimen of Colias hyalc at Hellesdon, near 



