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Locusta viridissima. — Mr. G. B. Oliver sends for identification a 

 specimen of this large grasshopper, taken by a labourer in a field at 

 Ramsey, in Huntingdonshire, on Oct. 3rd. As Mr. Oliver had not 

 previously seen one, it is apparently not common there. — W. J.Lucas. 



Mutilla europ^a. — On Aug. 15th I took in the New Forest a 

 specimen of this interesting and brightly coloured solitary ant. It is 

 either uncommon there or it keeps well out of sight, for I have never 

 previously captured a specimen. — W. J. Lucas. 



Acherontia atropos on the Lancashire Coast. — A fine male speci- 

 men of A. atropos was found here on Sept. 10th. Another was taken 

 by a fisherman some time during the same week, but he afterwards 

 lost it. — T. Baxter ; St. Anne's-on-Sea. 



Vanessa antiopa in Suffolk. — An example of this species was 

 captured here on Sept. 29th by Mr. R. Rix in his garden, where it had 

 settled on top of a beehive. The specimen, which he has generously 

 given to me, is unfortunately somewhat damaged. About thirty years 

 ago my brother put his hat over one, not far from the present scene of 

 capture, but failed to secure it. — (Rev.) A. P. Waller ; Waldringfield 

 Rectory, Woodbridge. 



Vanessa antiopa in Middlesex. — A specimen of V. antiopa was 

 captured at Harrow on July 27th last, and recorded in the ' Field ' of 

 Aug. 5th by Mr. A. Vassall, M.A.— F. W. F. 



Vanessa antiopa in Norfolk. — Mr. Gerard Gurney records in the 

 ' Field ' capturing a good specimen of V. antiopa on Aug. 26th at 

 Norwich ; it was resting with expanded wings on a small oak tree, one 

 of a row wbich had been "sugared" the previous night. He also 

 states the larvae of antiopa were plentiful last July in the Rhone Valley 

 on various species of sallow, in some cases completely denuding the 

 bushes of their leaves. — F. W. F. 



Catocala fraxini in Suffolk. — An example of this fine moth was 

 taken and another seen in September last at Fiixton, Suffolk, by Mr. 

 Cecil S. Joy.— F. W. F. 



Sirex juvencus in Edinburgh. — I received for identification on 

 Oct. 3rd a female specimen of this fine Sirex, which was captured in 

 Edinburgh.— F. W. F. 



Colias edusa at Fleet, Hants. — Whilst playing on the North 

 Hants Golf Links at Fleet, on July 28th last, I noticed two examples 

 of Colias edusa, evidently not long out. I have been in other counties 

 since then — Sussex, Wiltshire, Cornwall — but I have not seen another 

 specimen of this butterfly. — Harold Hodge ; 9, Highbury Place, 

 London, N. 



iEscHNA cyanea. — I bred a very fine JZschna cyanea in July this 

 year from a nymph sent to me from Oxfordshire in May (or June) of 

 1904. This is not the first time I have bred from a nymph kept 

 during the whole winter ; but I find the great majority, even though 

 quite small when first obtained, emerge the first summer. — Harold 

 Hodge. 



