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British total computed at 14,678. This must be considered 

 satisfactory for an area of 1500 square miles, i.e. 32 north and 

 south, 56 east and west ; but a glance at the supersoils, chalk, 

 sand, clay, peat, and crag, and at the eastern coast-line, southern 

 timber-belts, north-western breek-sauds, and north-eastern 

 broad-land will show how rich this county naturally should be 

 in its extremely variable character. 



We have had to have recourse to the current quarterly 

 * Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift ' for a review of the latest 

 part of ' Biologia Centrali Americana.' Do not we receive this 

 kind of publication for review, or do our editors consider the 

 subject too trans-Atlantic to interest British readers ? We know 

 no collectors who have done their work better than those who 

 assisted MM. Godman and Salvin in their great and beautifully 

 executed task. /-i t>t 



NOTES FEOM AN ESSEX LEPIDOPTERIST'S DIARY 



FOR 1911. 



By Paymaster-in-Chief Gervase F.Mathew, R.N., F.E.S., &c. 



(Continued from p. 136.) 



The 27th was fine and warm, with a light north-easterly breeze. 

 I went to the distant woods. A. euphrosyne was now out in abund- 

 ance, and getting worn ; A. selene just appearing. I saw three or 

 four N. liLcina and two He maris fuciformis. By beating I obtained 

 a few each of Lithosia areola, Erastria {fuscida) faseiana, Lohophora 

 hexapterata, Cidaria corylata, Euchoeca obliterata (lieparata) , H. 

 barbalis, &c., but common things were far from abundant. The 

 pretty little Roxana arcuana was flying merrily over hazel- 

 bushes, and a pair of Dasychira pudibnnda were taken in cop. 

 high up on a bare aspen pole where they looked very con- 

 spicuous. N. pidveraria were still appearing in my breeding- 

 cages, and one Eurymene dolobraria was also bred. The 29th 

 was fine and bright. I went to the woods in the forenoon and 

 beat one Drepana hamida female (which I kept for eggs), one 

 A. betalaria (typical), several Asthena candid ita, and Tortrix 

 ministrana, but saw little else. In the evening I noticed many 

 half-grown larvaB of Leucania straminea on reeds in a dyke on 

 the marshes. The 30th was lovely and warm in the evening, 

 Perizoma ajinitata and P. decolorata were flying in great numbers 

 along a hedgerow overgrown with Lychnis dioica. At sugar 

 N. rubi was abundant, and one H. pisi appeared, but nothing 

 else. 



