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On the concluding day two other small properties were disposed 

 of, the only lots of any special interest included in them being a fine 

 male example of Noctua suhrosea, £3 lO.s. ; three lots of four each of 

 Acjriades corydon var. syngrapha, £2 2s., £1 10s., and £1 10s. ; two 

 lots, each consisting of four var. syngrajyha and three intermediates, 

 £2 2s. and £1 12s. 6(7. per lot ; a specimen of A. corydon wax. foivleri, 

 £1 15s., and a fine female under side of A. hellargus having the 

 entire disc of the hind wings white, which ran up to £9 9s. — R. A. 



The Entomological Club. — A meeting was held at " Wellfield," 

 4, Lingard's Road, Lewisham, on March 15th last. Mr. Robert 

 Adkin in the chair. Other members present were Messrs. Donis- 

 thorpe. Hall, Porritt, and Verrall. In addition to three honorary 

 members — Messrs. Jones (A. H.), Sich, and Smith (A. E) — seven 

 other entomologists attended. 



The National Collection of British Lepidoptera. — iVmong 

 recent additions to this collection we note four beautiful examples of 

 Abraxas grossulariata ab. varleyata, presented by Mr. Porritt of 

 Huddersfield ; and a lovely series of Tortrix jJromibana given by Mr. 

 Robert Adkin, who reared the specimens from Eastbourne larvae. 



Erratum. — P. 104, line 21 from bottom, after " A large number of 

 insects" insert "new to science." 



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EuvANESSA antiopa IN SuRREY. — " Mr. Eric Parker writes from 

 Holmthorpe, Weybridge, under date March 5th : — ' Entomologists 

 may be interested to hear that to-day, walking in the woods of 

 St. George's-hill, I saw a Camberwell Beauty butterfly. It jumped 

 up at my feet from a bank of pine-needles on which it had been 

 sunning itself, flew about long enough for me to notice that the 

 cream border of its wings was very pale, almost white, and then 

 went away high over the pines.' "■ — From the ' Times,' March 8th. 



Phigalia pedaria ab. monacharia. — I should like to record the 

 abundance of the black form of P. pedaria {pilosaria) in this district. 

 Last year I found the variety but rarely. This year the black form 

 outnumbers the ordinary type, indeed the latter is scarce. — Wm. 

 Barraclough ; Holly Hall, Low Moor, March 15th, 1910. 



Ortholitha cervinata and Polia flavicincta in the Epping 

 Forest District. — As my earliest collecting days were spent in 

 this district, I am in a position to answer the question raised by Mr. 

 R. T. Baumann {antea, p. 98). In 1868-1870 I collected regularly 

 in a garden at Leyton (where we lived) and in the neighbouring parts 

 of the forest. A complete diary of captures for that period is still in 

 my possession, and the list of species recorded was published in the 

 ' Essex Naturalist ' in 1891 (vol. v. p. 153). 0. cervinata was taken 

 at that time in a lane between our house and the Hackney Marsh, 

 and P. flavicincta was taken not uncommonly in the garden at sugar. 

 With respect to this latter species I am inclined to think that it has 

 been getting rarer of late years. It used to be quite common in 



