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about a dozen more on the sand-hills near Shoeburyness. — J. A. 

 Cooper; 1, Sussex Villas, Harrow Road, Leytonstone, Essex. 



Chcerocampa nerii at Poplar. — A specimen of Choerocamija 

 nerii was brought to me alive yesterday. It had been taken on 

 the evening of the 20th, on a railway at Poplar, by a man named 

 Mason. — C. A. Briggs; 55, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Sept. 22, 1888. 



Abundance of Smerinthus. — I can fully attest the abund- 

 ance of Smerinthus tilice this year (Entom. 232), having myself 

 taken twenty-eight larvae, and several specimens of the perfect 

 insect. I have also found twenty-four larvse of S. ocellatiis, 

 which is more than I have taken, or heard of anybody else taking, 

 in this neighbourhood in one season. They seem to be very 

 backward this year, several of them have only just undergone 

 their final moult, whereas last year they were full-grown about 

 the middle of August. — W. J, Ogden; 93, Clapton Common, 

 Upper Clapton, E., September 21, 1888. 



Callimorpha HERA IN DEVONSHIRE. — Being at Dawlish, on 

 September 2nd, it occurred to me that it was about the time 

 Mr. Jager met with so much success in the capture of Callimorpha 

 hera in that locality. Having beaten several miles of hedges, I 

 was about to give up all hope of seeing a specimen, when all at 

 once one darted out, alighted upon an oak-tree near, and, upon 

 being disturbed with a stone, flew off over a high hedge and 

 was lost to view. I saw nothing more of the species until tiie 7th 

 inst., when I took a worn female of the var. lutescens. As it 

 came upon me suddenl}^ flying ii^ the early morning sunshine, it 

 looked so mucli like Colias eclusa tliat I was not aware of my prize 

 until it was in the net. — H. A. Auld ; 2, Plassy Road, Catford. 



Acronycta alni in Lincolnshire. — I beat a fine nearly full- 

 fed larva of Acronycta alni ofi" birch on Sept. 3rd, while beating for 

 Notodonta dictceoides, which I have been successful in finding here. 

 — Elizabeth Cross; TheVicarage, Appleby, Brigg, Lincolnshire. 



Acronycta alni in Northamptonshire. — I was fortunate in 

 picking up a nearly full-fed larva of the above species, crawling on 

 the road near Lilford Hall, on the 26th inst. — W. Edwards; 

 Lilford Hall, Oundle, August 27, 1888. 



Synia musculosa in Lancashire. — I have to record the cap- 

 ture of a specimen of Synia musculosa here at light on the 2ith 



