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the road, and fell an easy victim to my net. When boxed, the insect 

 elevated its wings over its back, and its true character was not then 

 recognized. On our return to the boarding-house it was transferred to 

 the killing-bottle, when it closed its wings round its body and revealed 

 the fact that the right pair of wings were those of the male, and the 

 left pair those of the female. The markings on the under side are 

 quite normal. The abdomen appears to possess the characters of the 

 female. The specimen is 1} in. in expanse. There was no oppor- 

 tunity of establishing evidence of the theory that these freaks occur in 

 pairs, for the fellow one did not cross my path. I have collected for 

 twenty-one years without having met with a gynaudrous specimen, and 

 this capture was in consequence especially pleasing to me. The 

 weather that day was all that could be desired, the sun shining bril- 

 liantly in a cloudless sky, and the heat was intense. — 0. Granville 

 Clutterbuck ; Heathside, Heathville Road, Gloucester. 



Notes on Odonata. — Mr. H. M. Edelsten sends the following 

 interesting notes on dragonflies in 1905 : — Sympetrum striolatum and 

 Msclma mixta, South Devon, common, Aug. 19th to 80th ; M. cyanea 

 and /E. grandis, Enfield, August; Erythromma naias, Enfield, several, 

 June 10th ; Pyrrhosoma nymphula, Enfield and Epping Forest, June ; 

 Ischnura eleyans, Enfield and Epping Forest, June, July, and August ; 

 Agrion pulchellum, Enfield, June; A. puella and Enallagma cyathi- 

 gerum, Enfield, June, July, and August. He also received from the 

 Norfolk Broads, S. striolatum and Lestes sponsa, Aug. 25th, Sept. 5th. 

 On one occasion Mr. Edelsten was able to watch a female E. cyathi- 

 gerum ovipositing. It descended below the surface and remained 

 under water for nearly fifteen minutes. When it came up again it 

 flew off and was at once seized by a male, per colhim. — W. J. Lucas ; 

 Kingston-on-Thames. 



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Vanessa antiopa in Surrey. — I have a rather damaged specimen 

 of the " Camberwell Beauty " butterfly, which was captured on August 

 29th, 1904, at Raynes Park.— W. Smith ; 46, Durham Road, Cotten- 

 ham Park, Wimbledon, Jan. 3rd, 1905. 



Lyc^na bcetica in Cornwall. — I have much pleasure in recording 

 the capture, near to Truro, of a female specimen of L. bcetica. It was 

 netted on August 2nd, 1904, by a young friend of mine, a schoolboy 

 collector, who so far has only a very small collection of the commoner 

 species of butterflies. He saw the insect in his garden hovering around 

 a veronica-bush, which it quickly left for a fuchsia-tree in bloom, and 

 from which he netted it. It was not until he boxed the insect that he 

 thought it to be anything unusual. He kept it alive for a day or two, 

 hoping to find me at home, but unfortunately I was away on my holi- 

 days. He therefore pinched the thorax in the old-fashioned way, and 

 set the insect, which is now in my collection. Both the wings on the 

 right side are a little split at the edges, and the fringe worn ; otherwise 

 it is in good condition, the under side being beautifully marked and 



