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at the Black Pond, Esher, the locahty Mr. Eichards suggests. — 

 E. S. A. Baynes ; 120, Warwick Street, S.W. 



Senta Maritima in Suerey. — With reference to the note {antca, 

 p. 251) on Senta maritima {ulvce) in Surrey, the following will be of 

 interest. On July 13th, 1906, I took a damaged male at light here. 

 Although I have worked lamps each year since then, I have not met 

 with it again. Meyrick in his handbook gives, as its range, Surrey 

 to Norfolk and Cambridge, but the Victoria History of Surrey does 

 not record it as occurring in the county. — F. W. J. Jackson ; Wood- 

 cote End House, Epsom. 



Pachys betularia ab. doubledayaria in Surrey. — Perhaps the 

 following notes on the occurrence of Pachys betularia ab. doubleday- 

 aria may be of interest. Commencing to collect here in 1904, 1 only 

 met typical betularia till 1907, when I bred a very nice dark inter- 

 mediate female. In 1909, I bred a female doubledayaria and took 

 five typical males, and this year I have taken a doubledayaria male 

 at light, and also a typical male and a doubledayaria female in coj)., 

 from which pairing I have some twenty or thirty pupae. — F. W. J. 

 Jackson. 



Occurrence of the Ichneumonid CEdematopsis ops, Mori. — I 

 have this year captured five specimens, all females, of the above 

 Pimplid, at Wimbledon, by sweeping birches on the Common. The 

 first was taken on May 23rd, two on July 19th, and two more on 

 July 28th. The only known specimen, a female, was taken by Dr. 

 Capron, it is thought possibly at Shore, in Surrey (Ichn. Brit. vol. iii., 

 p. 273), and is now in the collection of Mr. Claude Morley, who very 

 kindly determined my own captures. — Eupert Stenton, F.E.S. 



Dilina (Smerinthus) TILI.E AT CHESTER. — On the morning of 

 September 8th, while walking in an avenue of lime trees on the 

 south borders of the city and on the banks of the Dee, I saw a robin 

 two or three yards off about to pick up a large green caterpillar, 

 which had evidently dropped from the boughs overhead. The robin 

 unwillingly allowed itself to be driven away, and then I found the 

 larva to be a full-grown Lime Hawk caterpillar. The species is very 

 rare in the Chester district. The only previous records I can find 

 are an imago captured at electi-ic light in 1899 in the north part of 

 the city, and one in Flintshire in 1870. On reaching home, I put 

 the caterpillar in a flowerpot three parts full of soil, and it imme- 

 diately began burrowing. It is worth mentioning that the trees 

 forming the avenue are not old ones. Their age will not be more 

 than fifteen years at the outside. — J. Arkle ; Chester. 



Captures at Electric Light in June, 1910. — The following 

 results from an occasional midnight visit to a couple of street lamps 

 near my home may be of interest. All the moths referred to were 

 found resting on the walls within three or four yards of the lamps, or 

 on the pavement : — Amjyhidasys betularia, one type, one intermediate 

 between the type and doubledayaria, and several doubledayaria ; 

 Acronycta alni, one; A. jJsi, many; A. rmnicis, several; ^4. megace- 

 phala, four; A. leporina, one; Notodonta dictaa, one — all in fine 



