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Vinula were common in late June and early July. The larvae of 

 Vanessa io were in countless numbers about the middle of June, but 

 they were very badly stung. I had a curious experience with four 

 full-fed larv£e of Pheosia dictaoicles : I beat them late in the afternoon 

 of September 19th, and being hurried on my return home, put them 

 for the night on a birch twig within a glass cylinder which rested on 

 a wooden platform. Whea I came to look at them next morning, I 

 found that the larvae had lifted up the cylinder and crawled away. 

 After the most careful search I found one attacked by a large spider 

 in a corner under a fringe of carpet, but the others are still somewhere 

 in my study successfully hidden. It is also perhaps worth noting 

 that Eiichloe cardamines and Lyccsna icarus were distinctly scarce 

 here this year, while there were not so many larvae of Vanessa 

 urticcB as usual. — F. A. Oldakbr, M.A., F.E.S. ; The Ked House, 

 Haslemere, December 1st, 1914. 



The Rev. T. A. Marshall's Localities. — Ever since the publi- 

 cation of tome neuvi^me of Andre's ' Species des Hym6uopteres 

 d'Europe and d'Alg^rie,' which treats of the first part of the 

 Proctotrypidae, in 1904, 1 have been intending to publish the meaning 

 of the locahties indicated beneath the cards upon which Marshall 

 invariably mounted his Hymenoptera (and other insects). These 

 indications invariably take the form of abbreviations, and the diffi- 

 culty Mr. Lyle met in discovering the meaning of " St. A." (Entom. 

 1914, p. 261 — of separata, a very mistaken method of pagination, p. 5) 

 has occurred in a good many instances both at home and abroad : 

 notably in M. I'Abbe J. -J. Kietfer's Proctotrypidae, above-mentioned, 

 where the actual abbreviations are reproduced seriatim in a good 

 many instances, for what they are worth, because their meaning was 

 unknown to the author ! Hence it were well, surely, to place on 

 record a list of these, which was kindly furnished to me by Mr. 

 Marshall when presenting me with a collection of Palaearctic 

 Ichneumonidae. It is dated " Ucciani, Corse, April, 1899 " : — 

 " Bfm. or Bfmg. — Botusfleming (Cornwall). 



Nantes — France. 



Rannoch — Scotland. 



B. T. — Bishops' Teignton (Devon). 



Govilon — on the Usk, near Abergavenny, South Wales. 



N. — Nunton, near Salisbury (Wilts). 



Bugbr. — Bugbrooke, near Northampton. 



Cwthy. — Corn worthy, near Totnes (Devon). 



C. — Cheltenham. 



Groveley Wood — near Salisbury. [I have never heard of other 

 entomologists collecting here. I myself visited the locality in 

 June, 1911, and was charmed with it.] 



L. — Leicester. 



B. — Barnstaple (N. Devon). 



M.— Milford Haven, in Pembroke. 



I. of Wight— Hants. 



Niton— Isle of Wight. 



St. A.— St. Albans, Herts. 



Bolt Hd.— Bolt Head in Devon. 



