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End of August, near Lyndhurst, New Forest, I took two males 

 and saw a female caught by a boy of C. hyale all in good condition. — 

 (Colonel) R. H. Eattray ; Tonbridge, Kent. 



Argynnis SELENE IN AuGUST. — I caught a specimen of A. selene 

 on August 17th in fine condition and evidently of the second brood. 

 —(Captain) W. G. Manley. 



Xanthorhoe (Melanippe) fluctuata in December. — On 

 December 27th last I took on a fence in Southfields a perfectly fresh 

 specimen of X. fluctuata, the weather at the time being abnormally 

 mild. — A. E. Hodge; 14, Astonville Street, Southfields, S.W., January 

 2nd, 1912. 



Phigalia pedaria noted from Reading. — This species was out 

 here on January 7th ; my earliest previous dates were January 20th, 

 1895, and January 21st, 1887. — W. E. Butler ; Hayhng House, 

 Oxford Road, Reading, January 13th, 1912. 



Lepidoptera in the Tonbridge District, 1911. — The past 

 year has been a very good one for moths around Tonbridge, Kent. 

 Sugar was useless till after the middle of July. I caught the 

 following moths around the electric lamps : Apocheima hisjndaria, 

 TcBiiiocamjM populeti, Notodonta trepida, Pygcera curtula, Pheosia 

 tremula, P. dictceoides, Acronycta leporina, Mamestra genistcB, and 

 Centra furcula ; specimens of the last-named species were taken on 

 August 1st, 4th, and 6th, and were undoubtedly a second brood. 

 On Septeiiiber 26th a fine specimen of Acherontia atropos was taken 

 about 8 p.m. flying round a lamp, and on October 7th two pupae of 

 the same species were brought in to me by potato diggers ; these 

 emerged on October 17th and 22rd. Flying in garden after dusk I 

 caught Plusia iota, P. pulchrina and five specimens of P. moneta, 

 Geometra papilionaria, and Epione apiciaria (these latter were quite 

 common). A few Semiothisa notata, many *S'. liturata, and a few 

 Boarmia consortaria and B. rohoraria were beaten out of trees and 

 bushes. At sugar towards the end of July I took Apamea ophio- 

 gramma (3), Caradriim morpheus, TriphcBua inter jecta, Plastenis 

 subtusa, P. retusa (2). During September and October also at sugar 

 I took a long series of Orrhodia vaccinii, 0. ligula, and Eitpsilia 

 satellitia, Aporophyla lutidenta (4), Lithophane semihrunnea (2), 

 Amathes lota, and Miselia oxyacanthce w^ere particularly common 

 throughout the autumn. — (Colonel) R. H. Rattray ; 68, Dry Hill 

 Pack Road, Tonbridge, Kent. 



A Book Sale. — It is not often that a more interesting collection 

 of entomological books has been brought together than was the case 

 on Tuesday, January 9th, when the libraries formed by Mr. C. H. 

 Schill, the late Mr. B. G. Nevinson, and the late Mr. T. Vernon 

 Wollaston were offered at auction by Mr. J. C. Stevens at his King 

 Street rooms. The highest price realized for any one lot was £37 

 for a complete set of the 'Transactions' of the Entomological Society 

 of London, from the commencement in 1834 to 1901, 49 vols, in all ; 

 while another set commencing with 1836 to 1877 in 20 vols., and 

 some unbound parts, brought £19. A set of the ' Annales de la 



