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up to that time ; but on that date I took diluta, rufa, testacea, plagiata, 

 spinula, tenehrosa, N. rubi, xantliographa, ocellata, illunaria, j)uynilata, 

 russata, fluctuata, graminis, pyramided, brassicce, rumicis, H. sylvamis, 

 nktitans, cespitis, palpina, micacea,falcula, erosaria, and fulva; the other 

 moths taken during the month heiag propugnata, galiata, chrysitis, G. fla- 

 vago, cerago, ferrugata, popularis, capsophila, unidentata, testata, variata, 

 pallens, exanthemaria, plecta, c-nigrum, cubicularis, and neglecta. September 

 produced popidaris silago, cespitis, lunosa, and fulva : and October only 

 pennaria, dilutata, and oxyacanth(B. — R. B. Robkrtson ; Coxhorne, near 

 Clieltenham. 



Deilephila GALit ON THE East Coast. — I am surprised at not seeing 

 any notices of the capture of D. galil this year. I took five larvae, which 

 have changed to pupae, on the Essex coast ; but, though I spent several 

 days in searching many miles of coast, I could find no more. I thought, 

 however, that other collectors elsewhere had very likely been more fortunate. 

 I saw many places where Macroglossa stellatarum and Chmrocampa porcellus 

 had been feeding, but was too late for most of them. — W. H. Harwood ; 

 Colchester, Oct. 20th, 1894. 



Notes on the Season at Colchester. — The season here has not 

 been a very good one, though a distinct improvement upon last year ; for 

 then, though some species were unusually common, they were also very 

 constant in colour and markings, whereas this year variation has been much 

 more rife. The best insect I obtained was a pale, almost white, Epinephele 

 tithonus, in absolutely perfect condition ; tliis was captured by one of 

 my sons, and we also took a series of other interesting forms of this 

 species. Argynnis euphrosyne, too, proved to be worth looking after ; but 

 A. selene and A. adippe were much scarcer than usual, and very constant, 

 except that some specimens were extremely small. E. ianira was extremely 

 variable, and several good bleached and mottled forms turned up. Zygmia 

 jUipendulcB, which seemed all but extinct last year, was again to be seen in 

 some numbers, though by no means in its usual abundance, and I was for- 

 tunate enough to capture five fine pale specimens. — W. H. Harwood. 



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Entomological Society of London. — October Srd, 1894;. The Right 

 Honble. Lord Walsingham, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., Vice-President, in 

 the chair. Mr. Alick Marshall, of Bexley, Kent, was elected a Fellow 

 of the Society. Mr. W. F. H. Blandford exhibited specimens of a 

 sand-flea, chigoe or nigua, received from Mr. Szigetvary, of the Im- 

 perial Maritime Customs, China, who had found them in the ears of 

 sewer-rats trapped at Ningpo. Mr. Blandford stated that the species 

 was allied to, but not identical with, the American species, Sarcupsylla 

 penetrans, L., one of the most troublesome pests in Tropical America 

 and the West Indies to man and various domestic and wild animals, 

 the female burrowing into the skin, usually of the feet, but also of any 

 other accessible region. He said that the distribution of the chigoe 

 was recorded over Tropical America and the Antilles from 30" N. to 

 30° S., and of late years it had established itself in Angola, Loango, 



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