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my third capture of the species at the Chester electric lights. 

 J. Aekle ; Chester. 



Labia minor in the City. — A male example of this earwig 

 settled on my hand in London as I was walking along Southwark 

 Street near Blackfriars Bridge on Wednesday, September 30th last. 

 Mr. W. J. Lucas was good enough to name it for me and I have 

 added it to his collection, the interest attaching to it being the 

 locality in which it was taken. — F. M. Dyke, B.Sc, Kingston-on- 

 Thames. 



Captures of Lepidoptera in West Cornwall, 1908. — Of 

 Leucmiia albipuncta I have this season taken three specimens, two 

 in grand condition and one slightly worn ; and of Apamea leucostigma 

 (fibrosa) a single specimen in very good condition. I believe these 

 to be the first published records for this county. Half a dozen very 

 fine Leucania vitellina and several fine Polia xanthomista = nigro- 

 cincta have also been secured. Colias edusa has been scarce, but I 

 have captured five or six specimens, and have seen about two dozen 

 others. Two other insects perhaps worth mentioning are Sphinx 

 convolvuli and Acherontia atropos, of each of which I have obtained 

 one example. — W. A. Rollason ; Lamorna, Truro, Cornwall, October 

 17th, 1908. 



ZizERA (CupiDo) MINIMA IN AuGUST. — During the first week in 

 August the second brood of Z. minwia was locally common on Salis- 

 bury Plain. — F. W. J. Jackson ; Woodcote End House, Epsom. 



NocTUA ditrapezium a Scotch species. — A very fine specimen 

 of this moth was taken at sugar at Fortrose, in the Black Isle, in 

 August, 1903. I was not aware until a few days ago that this species 

 has not hitherto been regarded as extending its range so far north. 

 I certainly have never taken it in Scotland since, nor can I learn 

 from friends north of the Tweed of any other Scotch record. The 

 only books of reference that I have at hand limit its distribution to 

 England. — R. Meldola ; Lyme Regis, September 15th, 1908. 



[Since writing the above I find that Barrett gives Moncrielf Hill, 

 Perthshire, among the localities for this species. Its occurrence at 

 Fortrose on the shore of the Moray Firth is, however, worthy of 

 record.— R. M.] 



Notes on Collecting in the Aldershot District. — To most 

 people the word Aldershot conjures up visions of soldiers and field 

 days over the Long Valley rather than of entomological expeditions. 

 The Long Valley truly is a terrible place, where not even a cabbage 

 white nor a meadow brown can keep up the struggle for existence. 

 On that desolate sandy waste I would be more surprised to see a 

 butterfly than a vulture, for on a broiling hot day the valley reminds 

 one of a tropical desert, and it would only require the vulture to 

 complete thp resemblance. Luckily, however, the Long Valley is of 

 limited extent, and all around it lie districts that are more favoured 

 entomologically than any others that I know of, except perhaps 

 Dover. Taking Aldershot as a centre, and using a bicycle as a means 

 of conveyance, five distinct types of country can be reached in an 



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