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common at dusk. On the walls near the village several Niidaria 

 mundana were seen ; and in a garden Cidaria associata [dotata), 

 C. 2»"itnata, and Boarmia gemmaria were flying at dusk, and also 

 caught by the light from the windows. Plusia pulclirina was taken 

 at rest, and Abrostola trvplasia flying over nettles. The moors were 

 not visited, as it was far too hot to roam about in the scorching sun. 

 — W. G. Clutten ; 132, Coal Clough Lane, Burnley. 



"New Forest Notes, 1911." — The New Forest being almost "my 

 native heath," I was much interested in Mr. Lyle's notes (pp. 126- 

 130), especially as it is some years since I have been there. I have 

 never been fortunate enough to see A2)oria cratcsgi in the Forest, but 

 I had the pleasure of taking some specimens of Melanargia galatea 

 there on July 9th, 1889. There was a small colony of them in 

 a damp rushy spot in Ironshill Enclosure, near Lyndhurst Eoad 

 Station, and as the morning was dull and somewhat heavy they were 

 very lethargic, and many of them seemed to have just emerged. 

 Argynnis adippe was common in the same spot, settling as usual on 

 the flowers of the marsh plume thistle, but galatea was mostly on 

 the tall grass and rushes. I seem to have had the melancholy privi- 

 lege of taking one of the last of the New Forest Leucophasia sinapis, 

 for I captured a male specimen in Stubby Copse on June 13th, 1888, 

 which is well within the thirty years suggested by Mr. Lyle as the 

 time elapsed since its disappearance. I was glad to see the records of 

 Gonepteryx rhamni hybernating in ivy, as, although holly is so much 

 more abundant in the Forest than the flowering ivy, the butterfly's 

 wings so much more closely resemble yellow ivy-leaves in shape and 

 colour that it has always seemed more probable to me that it 

 hybernated in ivy than in holly, although it has been found also 

 amongst the latter. The reason why the specimen in question was 

 so much easier to see at night than by day was obviously that during 

 the night there is no top light shining through the bush and there- 

 fore no shadows from above, whilst at night the lantern light shines 

 from below and the leaves catching it at a difl'erent angle do not 

 throw such broad shadows, which, however, are more dense and 

 therefore contrast more sharply with the colour of the insect. — 

 C. Nicholson ; Hale End, Chingford. 



Correction. — Owing to an error, Erehia melampus should have 

 read Erehia cassiope in my article on butterflies at Digne in last 

 month's number of the ' Entomologist.' E. cassiope was common on 

 the Doubs on July 31st last summer. E. melampus has, I believe, 

 never yet been taken on the Doubs, though Oberthiir mentions it as 

 occurring in the Basses Alpes. — Gerard H. Gurney ; Keswick Hall, 

 Norwich. 



Collecting in Westmorland, 1911. — The following resume of 

 the season 1911 is, mainly, an account of work done in the environs 

 of Kendal by two entomological friends, Messrs. A. Graveson and 

 T. Smith, and myself, with substantial assistance from Mr. E. H. 

 Mallinson who has provided the Windermere records. 



The season opened inauspiciously, the almost incessant rain of 

 the early months being followed by a weary period of five weeks' 



