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emerging in the evening, the ^ in the forenoon. This conclusion was 

 borne out by many other specimens, whose time of emergence was 

 not accurately noted. 



Ephyra annidata, June 29th, New Forest. — One specimen at 

 sugar ! 



Cidaria jnjraliata ( ? ), July 15th, Fairhill. — -The rest attitude is 

 not by any means easy to describe. The forewings are held flat, well 

 advanced. The hindwings are completely covered by the forewings, 

 except their costa, which curls up and over costa of forewings. The 

 antennae lie along the disc of the forewings. 



Pachj/thelia {Psyche) villosella. — A few cases collected in the New 

 Forest (July 8rd) by Mr. Storey and myself. Larvje emerged from 

 one of my cases on July 16th. They numbered about 400. I first 

 noticed them as a long line of small insects proceeding rapidly along 

 my mantlepiece towards the light. They had squeezed out of their 

 box, and their phototropic instinct was exceedingly accurate. Arrived 

 at the corner of the mantlepiece nearest the window, they had the 

 wits to lower themselves by threads to the ground. At this point I 

 captured them, or they would have been lost in the carpet. The 

 whole brood kept to one narrow line of march with remarkable 

 accuracy. They settled down quite soon to the duty of case-making. 

 In each instance the case was commenced as a girdle round the 2nd 

 and 3rd abdominal segments. 



Kpichnopteryx pidla (^s), June 13th, Wrotham Down, Kent. — 

 The insect normally rests with the wings " roofed " and the antennae 

 beneath the costa of the forewings. When thoroughly awake the 

 wings are more spread, and the antenna3 are held forward in an 

 " ordinary " position ; they are perpetually quivering. I should like 

 to investigate the anatomy and histology of these antennae. The 

 muscles, and more particularly the nerve-endings, should prove very 

 interesting. 



Micropteryx thnnheryella, May 2nd, Hardwick Wood, Cambs. — 

 Buzzing round privet bushes. 



Micropteryx ealthella. — Various localities. I have frequently 

 noticed that a blossom, whether of Caltha, Cardaniine, or other flower, 

 either contains no, ealthella at all, or else that it contains at least half- 

 a-dozen. It may be that in only a few flowers is the pollen in a 

 suitable state of ripeness ; but I incline to the view that the species is 

 sociable.— P. A. Buxton, Fairhill, Tonbridge. 



OLEOPTERA. 



Capture of Aleochara brunneipennis near Leicester. — I have 

 taken the above species at Sutton-inthe-Elms, near Leicester, on 

 three different occasions ; five specimens altogether. They were taken 

 in haystack refuse, and have been confirmed by Dr. Sharpe ; I ought 

 rather to say named by him, as I did not know what species they 

 were. Two specimens of A. ruficornis and a nice set of J^scKdopsis 

 sidcata were captured under the same stack.^ — W. H. Barrow, 4, 

 Saxe-Coburg Street, Leicester. August 12f/(, 1912. 



Jg^OTES ONCOLLECTING, Etc. 



The Season 1912. — I should like to know if my experiences this 



