314 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Sirex gigas at Chichester. — This handsome "giant" saw-fly 

 made its appearance here during the past season. Single specimens 

 may be met with nearly every summer, but many years have passed 

 since ISirex juvencus has been seen. — Joseph Anderson. 



Xylina semibrunnea in Reigate. — While working ivy-bloom in 

 Eeigate, on November 14th, I took a fine specimen of X. semibrunnea 

 on an exposed head from which all the bloom had fallen, leaving only 

 the hard seed-heads. I am told by a Lewes collector that he finds the 

 ivy-bloom most attractive when it is falling. Is this the experience 

 of other collectors ? — A. J. Wightman ; 28, Station Road, Redhill. 



Lepidoptera at Light in Reigate in 1905. — I have this year taken 

 the following insects at light here, which I did not take in 1904 : — 

 Drepana binaria, Ptilophora plumiyera, Demas coryli, Luperina cespitis, 

 Miana fasciuncula ; while several insects, abundant in 1904, did not 

 turn up at all, viz., Cirrhcedia xerampelina, Plusia chrysitis, Hydrcecia 

 micacea, Pachnobia rubricosa. — A. J. Wightman ; 28, Station Road, 

 Redhill. 



Sphinx convolvuli in South-west London. — I beg to report the 

 capture of a specimen of 8. convolvuli at light, on Wimbledon Common, 

 on October 15th, 1905. — Claud E. L. Ellis; 17, Telegraph Street, 

 London, E.C. 



Odonata in Herts, 1905. — A gravel-pit and several ponds were 

 searched near the village of Shenley. On June 13th, Agriori puella, 

 Enallayma cyathigerum, and Ischnura eleyans were on the wing in great 

 abundance, and three Pyrrhosoma nymphula (all males) were captured. 

 On June 14th some specimens of Libellula depressa were captured, and 

 also one P. nymphula female, flying along a hedge. On June 14th two 

 Erythromma naias (males) were taken, at one of the ponds where E. 

 cyathigerum and /. eleyans were abundant. On June 15th an E. naias 

 female was captured, and another female on June 16th. On July 15th 

 two more E. naias (males) were captured, and two females were seen. 

 In August and September Sympetrum striolatum, /Eschna grandis, and 

 M. cyanea were abundant. On August 22nd a species of Lestes turned 

 up in the gravel-pit. It seemed to be L. dryas, but the specimen has 

 not been satisfactorily identified so far. — E. R. Speyer ; Shenley, 

 Herts. 



A New Forest Holiday. — As I alighted at Lyndhurst Road 

 Station one afternoon towards the end of last June, I could not help 

 contrasting the weather with that which I had experienced on my 

 arrival at the same spot on a day in late July, 1903. Then, great 

 clouds of fine rain were sweeping continually across the country, and 

 the forest was a mass of bog and swamp ; now, the temperature was 

 nearly eighty degrees in the shade, and the forest was indeed the 

 Mecca of the entomological wanderer. On my former visit, the rain- 

 fall almost created a record for July and August ; this time, day fol- 

 lowed day of brilliant sunshine, making the collecting of insects, if at 

 times a somewhat warm occupation, yet always a most delightful one. 

 Very soon after my arrival I was, on Lyndhurst Common, to be 

 greeted at once by a conspicuous Nemeophila russula. The males were 

 about in some numbers, though I saw but a single female. As dusk 



