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Auy notes as to localities, rarity, &c., would be acceptable. — Fred. W. G. 

 Payne ; Hughendeu House, Sale Street, Derby. 



Odont^us mobilicornis at Shirley Warren. — A female specimen of 

 0. mohillcornis flew in to my study on the evening of July 27th, and was 

 secured on my writing-table. This is a curious instance of history repeating 

 itself, as my house is within forty yards of the house in which Dr. Sharp 

 secured the specimen he records in the Ent. Mo. Mag. for July, on which 

 occasion also I was present. I might mention that at the moment when 

 the OdontcBus flew round my lamp I was looking at a female oak-eggar 

 moth, which had settled on the table. — H. S. Gorham ; Shirley Warren, 

 Southampton. 



Anommatus r2-STRiATUs. — Now is the time to look for Anommatus, in 

 the old skins of the rotten set of potatoes which are just being dug. As 

 potato-growers know, the old potato, called the set, often rots away, leaving 

 only a skin, with perhaps a little rotten matter adhering to it. In these 

 cavernous retreats the Anommatus may be found; I have just taken as 

 many as eleven from one potato. It occurs in other subterranean vegetable 

 matter; I have just taken seven from one small carrot that was split and 

 partly decayed by being eaten by slugs. And my son, Mr. H. M. Gorham, 

 once found ten in a puff-ball ; but there is no special predilection for fungi 

 on the beetle's part. — H. S. Gorham; August 18th, 18'J4. 



PnosPHiENUS HEMIPTERUS NEAR SOUTHAMPTON. — I havc never recorded 

 the capture of a male of this insect at Swathling, near here, but I believe 

 this the only instance of its occurrence, except at Lewes. I swept the 

 example from a weedy bank, but could not obtain any others. This was 

 on July 9th, 1891.— H. S. Gorham ; August 20th, 1894. 



Collecting in the New Forest, 1894. — I was staying at Brocken- 

 hurst from June 8th to 17th with Mr. R. Wilson. The weather was very 

 dull, although we had very little rain. Of the Rhopalocera, Argynnis 

 eupkrosyne was most abundant, A. selene was only just coming out when 

 we left, Hesperia sylvanus, H. tages,Synchthus alveo tits [common, including 

 one variety), Lyccena aryiolus (one battered specimen), Gonopteryx rhamni, 

 Euchloe cardamines, Vanessa cardui (abundant), V. polychloros (one speci- 

 men), Pararge egeria. Of the Heterocera, Macroglossa fuciformis and M. 

 bombyliformis flying over the rhododendrons at the Rhinefields, Eiithemonia 

 russula, Lithosia aureola, L. rubricolUs (just coming out), Bonihyx rubi, 

 Orgyia jjudibunda, Euchelia jacobcea;, Euclidia mi, Anarta myrtilli. Of 

 the Geometrae, Aspilates strigillaria, Odontopera bidentata, lodis lactearia, 

 Corycia temerata, Macaria Uturata, Panagra petraria, Fidonia atomaria, 

 B\ piniaria (we beat the pine-trees for females, and got about a dozen ; also 

 one pupa of Ellopia fasciaria), Ligdia adustata, Thera obeliscata, Cidaria 

 corylata, C. 9-ussata, Larentia pectinitaria, Cabera pusaria, Melanippe mon- 

 tanata, Cleora glabraria, Tanagra charophyllata, Ephyra punctaria, Venilia 

 maciilata, Anaitis plagiata, Boarmia consortaria, B. roboraria, Tephrosia 

 crepuscularia, Meianthia ocellata, Eubolia palumharia. Larva-beatmg aud 

 searching were fairly productive ; the most pleutilal larva was that of 

 Vanessa polychloros, of which we got about 150 off four trees ; from a 

 sallow a full-grown larva of Apatura iris fell into the beating-tray ; the 

 other larvae being Thecla quercus, T. betulce, Argynnis paphia, Catocala 

 sponsa, Tceniocampa miniosa (off oak and bramble), T. munda, T. stabilis, 



