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Gyll., and a few Epnraea titoracica, Tonrn., were taken before darkness 

 made further work impossible. In company with my friend, Mr. 

 Donisthorpe, another venture was made on July 4th, the whole of the 

 workable material of the logs, our patience and our combined invective 

 exhausted, but no Hi/popJdoens : our only capture of interest being a few 

 more Ejinraea thoracica by Mr. Donisthorpe. On October 17th, from 

 thick wet moss by the Black Pond, I shook out a nice series of Ocyum 

 picina, Aub., and one Stilicits siniilis, Er. ; from the sphagnum in the 

 pond, in addition to the customary species, such as the (h/innusa and 

 Stenits, I secured a short series of linjaxis inipressa, Pz. — Hereward 

 C. DoLLMAN, F.E.S., Hove House, Newton Grove, Bedford Park, W. 



Mycetoporus forticornis, Fauv., and other Coleoptera in the 

 New Forest. — A few days at the end of July working in the Forest 

 resulted in the capture of some interesting forms. Most of these 

 were typical New Forest species, and though none the less welcome, 

 do not call to be recorded. Mi/cetoporus forticornis Avas my most 

 interesting capture. I shook one specimen from thick moss at the 

 roots of ling. The larger size, much more transverse and clavate 

 antenn;*, the different coloration (especially of the head) and the 

 punctuation, readily differentiate the species from its ally .1/. davicomis, 

 of Stephens. Meffacronus cingulatus, Man., and Cacnopsis fissirostris, 

 Walt., were also shaken from the same moss. Sweeping in Ramnor 

 enclosures on the 26th added a new species to my collection in 

 Flil/tdbius quadrinodosns, Gyll. {denticollis, Gyll.), and a nice series of 

 LowjitarsuH holsaticus, L. Sweeping Inula dysenterica outside Stubby 

 copse produced Cassida fastuosa, Schal., one imago and one larva ; the 

 latter I reared without difficulty. This beautiful species has not, I 

 think, been taken in the Forest since its capture there by Stephens. 

 From a partly decayed beech tree many interesting beetles were taken, 

 the best of these being Euplectus bescidicus, Eeitt. (a long series), 

 Batrisus vemistus, Reich, (several), and Flei/aderus. — Hereward C. 

 Dollman, F.E.S., 14, Newton Grove, Bedford Park, W. 



:^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Early appearances. — I took a J'/n'nalia pedaria (pilosaria) on a 

 gas lamp here on December 29th, a capture which I should say is 

 somewhat near a record for early emergence, and to-day near East- 

 bourne I set up another record by taking a freshly emerged, Xylocawpa 

 areola (lithoriza) on a telegraph-pole. What is the coming season 

 going to show us? — A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., Aincroft, Reigate. 

 January 5th, 1912. 



ZoNOSOMA ORBICULARIA AB. lANTHINARIUM IN BrITAIN.— Mr. W. H. 



Harwood has had the good fortune to breed, from larvse, beautiful ex- 

 treme examples of Z. orbiculana ab. iantldnarium [sic!] , Stichel, which 

 has not hitherto been recorded as British. The form was described and 

 named by Stichel in 1901 (Berl. Knt. Zeit., xlvi., S.B. p. 20) and 

 previously figured without a name by Snellen {Tijd. Knt., xxxviii., p. 

 58. tab. iv., fig. 4, 1895), and is parallel to Z.pendularia ab. subroseata. 

 The ground colour is of the same blackish grey, tinged with red in the 

 middle, as in the extreme forms of that species, typically the transverse 

 pale lines and the discal spot of both wings remain conspicuous, but 

 Mr. Harwood has shown me an example so extreme as to have even 



