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began S3'steniatically to collect the Tineina. — William Machin ; 

 29, Cai-Iton Eoad, Carlton Square, E., February 19, 1888. 



Carabus monilis in January. — On the 27th of January I 

 captured an active specimen of Carabus monilis at Harrow, 

 during a sharp frost with snow. It did not appear at all torpid. 

 — M. H. Grant ; 50, Lancaster Gate, London. 



Odont.eus mobilicornis in the Isle op Wight. — In 

 August last, at Alum Bay, Isle of Wight, I had the good fortune 

 to capture a male Odontceus mobilicornis, which is now in my 

 collection. Not knowing the insect, I took it, together with 

 others, to the t3'pe collection of the British Museum, Nat. Hist., 

 Cromwell Road, where it was identified. — M. H. Grant ; 

 60, Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park, February, 1888. 



Scarcity of Ematurga atomaria in 1887. — The most 

 notable absentee in my experience during the past year has 

 been Ematurga atomaria, of which I did not see a single 

 specimen in any of the localities where usually it is abundant. — 

 F. J. BucKELL ; 32, Canonbury Square, January, 1888. 



The Micro-lepidoptera of South Devon. — I was much 

 interested in Mr. Kane's list (Entom. 34), as during the first 

 three weeks of August last I was staying at Avonwick, half- 

 way on the main-road between Ivy-bridge and Totnes. I was 

 not able to give much time specially to Entomology, but came 

 across several species which do not occur in the list of Mr. 

 Kane. Those whose interest in Lepdoptera is gauged by the 

 comparative variety of the species will say, " What a poor 

 list ! " But to those who take a wider view, and study dis- 

 tribution, such lists as mine cannot be wholly valueless. All 

 the species named were taken at Avonwick. Bhopalocera : 

 — Pieris rapes, abundant. Argijnnis papliia, many worn speci- 

 mens. Pararge egeria, not uncommon in lanes and damp 

 woods. Epinephele tithonus, wasted. Vanessa urticcB, fairly 

 common. V. io, on flowers, especially by the river-side, 

 imago at sugar. Apamea oculea, common. Neuronia popularis, at 

 liglit. Polia chi, at rest on walls and trunks. Ampliipyra pyrariiidea, 

 common at sugar. Gonoptera Ubatrix, common at sugar. Mania 

 maura, at sugar. Geometrse : — Epione apiciaria, fairly common, 

 Lyccena icarus and Coenonynipha pamphilus, fairl}^ abundant. 

 Heterocera : — Lithosia lurideola, at light. Bombyx neustria, at 

 light. Acronycta alni, one larva, on a boulder in mid-stream, 



