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which it got badly damaged by clinging to the blades of grass, &c, over 

 which it was being slowly drawn. We brought away both captor and 

 prisoner, and subsequent investigation determined the bug to be Nabis 

 limbatus and the crane-fly to be Tipula paludosa. — F. W. & H. Campion ; 

 33, Maude Terrace, Walthamstow. 



Rhopalocera pal^arctica. — We have received a prospectus, with 

 specimen plate and page of text, of an important work which is in 

 course of publication, and of which Mr. Eoger Verity is the author. 

 It is proposed to briug together information from all sources concern- 

 ing each species. The " intention is not only to render the work useful 

 to the amateur for the classification of his specimens, but to give it a 

 really scientific value by an exhaustive study of all the geographical, 

 seasonal, and accidental forms of each species." The plate, which is 

 well produced, is of large size, showing thirteen full-sized figures of 

 Papilio machaon and its forms. This appears to be a work that is much 

 needed. 



CAPTURES AND FIELD REPORTS. 



Noctua at Hartlepool. — On Oct. 3rd I took a perfect specimen of 

 Dasypolia templi (male) at rest on an electric light standard in West 

 Hartlepool. This, I believe, is the first record of this insect in the 

 town, and, as far as I can ascertain, only the larva has been found in 

 the neighbourhood. The installation of the electric light is drawing 

 new visitors into the town, and in addition to the above I have taken 

 Nonagria lutosa and Tapinostola elymi in the main thoroughfare of 

 Hartlepool. — (Rev.) B. Harvey-Jellie ; Hartlepool. 



Insects at Hurst Castle. — Hurst Castle is a small peninsula of 

 shingle at the extremity of a single bank of some mile in length. 

 Insects — at any rate conspicuous ones — were, as might be expected, 

 not common there ; but on two short visits during August there were 

 seen — the grasshopper, Stenobothrus bicolor, male and female ; Vanessa 

 cardui ; Satyrus semele ; Pieris rapcE ; Ccenonympha pamphilus ; some 

 blues, no doubt Pyemia icarus ; a moth, Eubolia bipunctaria ; a few 

 humble-bees ; and a nest of the ant, Lasius niger. — W. J. Lucas. 



Wasp with Butterfly. — On Aug. 13th, in the New Forest, I found 

 a worker wasp of the species Vespa vulgaris struggling on the ground 

 with a butterfly, Pararge egeria, of which it appeared to be trying to 

 get a good hold. I secured the two. In the glass-bottomed box the 

 wasp snipped off the wings of the butterfly, and then tried to fly away 

 with the body. A few days previously I had noticed a wasp similarly 

 in possession of a moth. — W. J. Lucas. 



Limenitis sibylla. — Mr. E. Marsh tells me that he found this 

 butterfly in numbers between Bedford and Petersfield in mid-July. — 

 W. J. Lucas. 



Pararge meg^era. — In and near the New Forest during August 

 this butterfly was rather common. It does not seem usually to be a 

 plentiful butterfly in the district.— W. J. Lucas. 



