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readily perhaps thau the Lotus. — Percy C. Eeid ; Feering Bury, 

 Kelvedon. 



EupiTHECiA pusiLLATA IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE. — Amongst Several 

 interesting " Pugs " taken by me this spring occurs E. pusillata. 

 It was beaten out of a small spruce-fir growing between beech- 

 trees in a chalk-pit near Shelford and is a male in tine condition — 

 the first of the species I have seen in this neighbourhood — so 

 thought a record would be of interest. — Hugh Percy Jones ; 19, 

 Tenison Avenue, Cambridge. 



Geobietra vernaria IN Ireland. — During the first week of July 

 this year two males and a female of this species were captured in 

 the garden at Eoan House, Coalisland, co. Tyrone, by Mr. J. S. 

 Wilson and myself. — G. Coulter. 



CoLiAs edusa in Ireland. — On June 5th, 1918, I observed a 

 .specimen of C. edusa flying through Eanelagh Eoad, Dublin, and on 

 the 6th I observed another in Harcourt Street, Dublin. — G. Coulter. 



Turnip Flea-Beetles — Wireworms. — In reference to Mr. 

 Walsh's inquiry in the June number of ' The Entomologist,' Phyllo- 

 treta nemorum, L., does not appear to be a common turnip pest in 

 this district. My field of observation has not been a very wide one 

 so far as turnip flea-beetles are concerned, but, speaking at least for 

 the farm attached to the Experimental Station, the commonest flea- 

 beetles found on turnips are P. imdulata and P. vittula, Eedt. I 

 have not identified any specimen of P. nemorum. In Westmorland 

 also, in the district between Windermere and Kendal, my experience 

 corresponds with Mr. Walsh's in finding P. undulata to be the 

 common turnip flea-beetle. I should further like to ask for informa- 

 tion in regard to the occurrence and relative abundance of the common 

 species of Agriotes. A. lineatus is frequently referred to as one of the 

 common wireworms. Locally this may be so, but in this part of 

 Hertfordshire I have been unable to find it, the common species of 

 wireworms being A. obscurus and A. sputator. I gather from several 

 correspondents in different counties in the South of England that 

 A. lineatus is not so common as had been supposed, and it seems 

 desirable to obtain what information is available of well-authenticated 

 records of its present distribution and abundance relative to the other 

 two species named. Ford (' Ann. App. Biol.,' iii, (1917), 114) found 

 the common wireworm in Cheshire, North Staffordshire, and South 

 Lancashire to be the larva of A. obscurus, and in Westmorland my 

 experience has been the same. A. sputator is recorded from the area 

 mentioned by Ford, but probably its numbers are not so great as to 

 constitute it a serious pest. I have not found it in Westmorland, 

 though it may perhaps occur in localities which I have not worked. 

 With regard to the other species of Agriotes, A. sobrimcs and A. p)al- 

 lidulus are found here fairly commonly by sweeping or searching the 

 early umbelliferous flowers. Though it does not at present seem 

 likely that they are to be classed among the dangerous pests, it would 

 be interesting to have details of their distribution. — A. W. Eymer 

 Egberts ; Eothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden. 



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