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coloured. The tail-like appendages and antennas are complete, but by 

 the pinching of thorax to kill it only one leg remains. I am delighted, 

 however, to have the specimen. Can you inform me whether there are 

 any later records of the capture of this insect than those given in 

 Barrett's ' British Lepidoptera,' published in 1893 ? — W. A. Kollason; 

 The White House, Truro, Feb. 10th, 1905. 



[In 1893 three specimens of L. bcetica were recorded in the ' Ento- 

 mologist ' for that year — a male on September 7th at Dartford ; one at 

 Hastings, also in September ; and a specimen in Sussex, August 28th. 

 Two examples were reported as occurring in England in 1899. Qne 

 of these was recorded as taken at Tunbridge Wells on September 1st ; 

 the other was said to have been captured at Deal on September 16th 

 (Entom. xxxii. p. 281). — Ed.] 



Unusual Dates. — The following dates may be worth recording : — 

 On Nov. 15th, 1901, a fine male specimen of Colias edusa vta,s seen on 

 the wing ; on Jan. 25th, 1905, one example of Cidaria psittacatq 

 (siderata) was found at rest on a bank ; and on Feb. 3rd, 1905, a 

 specimen of Eumia luteolata (cmtmjata) was seen in a similar position. 

 The latter is, I think, quite exceptional even for South Devon. — E. D. 

 Morgan ; 8, Luscombe Terrace, Dawlish, Devon, Feb. 3rd, 1905. 



[In the December number of the ' Entomologist ' for last year there 

 are two records of G. edusa having been observed in November. 

 C. psittacata hybernates in the imago state. February is certainly an 

 unusual date for 11. luteolata. — Ed.] 



Leucoph^a surinamensis Linn, in Essex. — This pretty cockroach 

 has occurred abundantly in a tanpit adjoining the greenhouses of a 

 private garden between Chelmsford and Bloomfield, and is doing con- 

 siderable harm to the pineapples, orchids, and other plants. In Mr. 

 Burr's 'British Orthoptera,' published in 1897, the occurrence of two 

 individuals at Bognor, Sussex, and one at Kew is mentioned, but Mr. 

 Burr states that "it hardly deserves to be called British until it is 

 proved that it actually breeds here." There is no doubt of its breed- 

 ing in the present locality, as it has been established for several years, 

 and the specimens brought to me are of every age and size, from 

 recently hatched young to mature insects. The gardener who sub- 

 mitted the specimens to me does not know how they came, but in the 

 past few years numerous tropical plants have been brought into the 

 garden, and the cockroaches may have been brought with one of them. 

 I have sent specimens to the British Museum Collection, and my 

 naming has been confirmed there. — E. Charles Horrell ; County 

 Laboratories, Chelmsford, Essex. 



Since writing the above, I hear from Mr. W. H. Harwood, of Col- 

 chester, that about thirty specimens have recently been found near 

 Liverpool and Manchester. — E. C. H. 



A few Captures from North Cornwall in 1903. — The following 

 insects, taken during July and August, may be worth noting : — Argynnis 

 aijlaia, abundant and in grand condition ; Leucophasia sinapis, includ- 

 ing one of the pale variety ; Hesjieria linea, abundant ; Melanargia 

 galatea, Habrosyne derasa, Cymatophora duplaris, Emmelcsia alchemiilata, 

 Triphccna intcrjecta, Hylopkila quercana (bicolorana), Hypsipetes ehitata 



