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Drymonia (Notodojita) chaonia, Spilosoma menthastri, S. lubricipeda, 

 PygcBra bncephala, Dicranura vinula, and other common species. — ■ 

 Joseph Anderson ; Chichester. 



CoLiAs EDUSA. — This species having been unusually scarce this 

 season, I was much surprised to find a female at rest on a thistle about 

 10 p.m. on the 5th inst. — Edward Goodwin ; Canon Court, Watering- 

 bury. 



Dragonflies near Huntingdon. — During recent visits to Hartford, 

 near Huntingdon, I have collected from the Kiver Ouse at that place 

 examples of the following species of Agrionidae : — In 1904 (June 17th), 

 Calopteryx splendens (one male) ; in 1906 (June 18th to 30th), C. splen- 

 dens (one male), Pyrrhosoma nymphula, Ischnura elegans, and Ayr ion 

 puella ; and in 1907 (June 24th to July 6th), C. splendens (males and 

 females), Platycnemis pennipes (one very immature male, wit^ reduced 

 spots), Erythromma naias (one very immature male), I. eleyans (includ- 

 ing a female of var. infuscans), A. pulchellum (one male), and A. puella 

 (including a male having the U-shaped spot joined to the circlet behind). 

 — F. W. Campion ; 33, Maude Terrace, Walthamstow, Essex. 



Captures of Lepidoptera in Cambridgeshire, &c. — I should like to 

 record a few of my recent captures, some of which are as follows : — 

 Aporophyla nigra, Hw. Cambridge, at light, September 25th, 1907. 

 I doubt if this has been taken here before. — Orthosia ocellaris, Bork. A 

 specimen on a Cambridge lamp, September 16th, 1907. — 0. yilvayo, 

 Esp. Very common here this year. I have seen as many as seventy 

 in one night, and ten on one lamp. — Heliothis dipsacea, L. Cambridge, 

 at light, July, 1907 ; Wicken Fen, at light, August 9th, IdOl. —Hadena 

 ojj/u'or/mwHirt, Esp. One at Shelford, Cambridgeshire, June 20th, 1906. 

 — Deilephila livornica{lineata),Y. One at Shelford, August 3rd, 1905, 

 hovering over lavender. — Stauropus fagi, L. An imago, Gog Magog 

 Hills, at rest on palings, July 5tb, 1907. — Homceosoma sinuella, F. This 

 species seems common in wild places on chalky soil all over the district. 

 Is it still reckoned a coast species ? — Evergestis extimalis, Sc. Two at 

 light, Cambridge, July, 1907. — Pammene ochsenheimeriana, 7i. Devil's 

 Ditch (Newmarket), May. 1905 ; Cambridge, June, 1906. — Parana 

 neuroptereUa, Z. Barton Hills (Bedfordshire), August 22nd, 1907. — 

 Aristotelia lucidella, Stph. Swarmed in one corner of the lake in 

 Epping Forest, August 2nd, 1907. — Mompha stephensi, Stt. Richmond 

 Park, September 5th, 1907. — Nepticula fulgens, Stt. Shelford, Cam- 

 bridgeshire, 1907. (Common, together with xV. tityreUa (?).) — Ochsen- 

 heimeiia vaculella, F. R. Common on oak-trunks (in crevices of the 

 bark), September 5th, 1907. Most of them were in bad condition, 

 many dead and dry. — Mr. A. G. Wilmott, of St. John's College, Cam- 

 bridge, asks me to mention the following : — Orthosia xerawpelina, Hb. 

 Ten at light, Cambridge, September, 1907. — Senta maritivia, Tausch. 

 One at light, Cambridge, August, 1907. — Loxostege palealis, Schifif. 

 One at light, Cambridge, August, 1907. — Chrysoclista linneella, CI. 

 Locally common at Cambridge this year. — Not being acquainted with 

 a more up-to-date work, I have used the nomenclature of Meyrick's 

 'Handbook.' — F. W. Edwards; Penwith, Hills Road. Cambridge, 

 October 6th, 1907. 



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