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depressa, resting on a grass-stem with the old nymph-case just below it. 

 The nymphs of this species were in some numbers in the same pond. 



A few Coleoptera were taken at odd moments, and Mr. S. W. Kemp 

 kindly sent me the following list of species obtained : — Pterostichus 

 striola (F.), Druiuius q^iadrimacnlatus (L.), Deronectes deprcssus (F.), 

 Staphylmus casareus (Cover.), found under stones and turf, Anatis 

 ocellata (L.), Coccinella septempunctataijj.), Byrrhus 2}ilula (h.), FiluKjmm 

 bifasciatnm (F.), Helops stiiatus (Fourc), Scyninus suturalis (Thunb.), 

 Hylobius abietis (L.), Ehynchites ceneo-irreus (Marsh.), R. pauxillus 

 (Germ.), Apionmmiatum (Germ.), Balanimts villosus (F.), and Geotrupes 

 typh(sns (L.). 



Cicindela campestris was seen commonly on the heaths, flying and 

 running in the sunshine. Two species of Hemiptera also sent to 

 Mr. Kemp were identified by him as Podlsus luridus and Acanthosoma 

 griseum.—F. M.B. Carr; 46, Handen Road, Lee, S.E., May 6th, 1902. 



Sphinx convolvuli in 1901. — In the 'Entomologist' for August, 

 1901, I recorded that Mr. Pestell, of Elstow, near Bedford, captured 

 four specimens of S. convolvuli at honeysuckle on June 30th and 

 July 2nd, 10th, and 11th. Mr. Pestell received from field-labourers 

 two larvffi of S. convolv^di on August 16th, which pupated on August 

 22nd ; one on August 28th, which pupated on September 2nd ; two 

 larvae on September 7th, which pupated on 12th ; one on September 

 14th, which pupated on the 16th. All these larvfe were found feeding 

 on the scarlet runner, or french-bean. On October 4th he received a 

 pupa which was found in a potato patch. These pupae all failed to 

 emerge, and are now dead. It appears to me to be probable that the 

 specimens caught at midsummer were hybernated, and that these laid 

 the eggs which produced the larvffi found in August and September. — 

 W. GiFFORD Nash ; Bedford. 



Sphinx convolvuli on Dartmoor in 1901. — At Yelverton, South 

 Devon, at an elevation of about 800 feet, on the edge of Dartmoor, I 

 captured, at tobacco flowers, two specimens of (S'. convolvuli on August 

 20th, two on 25th, one on 26th, and one on 28th. Many specimens 

 were seen by others after I left the neighbourhood on August 31st. — 

 W. GiFFORD Nash ; Bedford. 



NoTODONTA CARMELITA IN SouTH OF SCOTLAND. — I was greatly Sur- 

 prised to find on April 19th last that a female specimen of xV. carmelita 

 had emerged in one of my breeding pots, which contained pupfe from 

 larvfB collected in this locality during the last week in July and first 

 week in August, 1901. The larva; were collected from birch and 

 black poplar. I knew that I had dictwa, dicttmides, dromedarins, and 

 ziczac among those larva3, but never suspected that I had carmelita. — 

 J. C. Haggart ; Galashiels, N.B., May Brd, 1902. 



Plusia moneta Larvae at Farnborough (Kent) and Neighbourhood. 

 — Last season I had the good fortune to capture some imagines of this 

 species at Bromley Common {ante, Entom. July, 1901). There is a 

 considerable quantity of its food-plant in the neighbourhood [Aconitum 

 and Delphinium), so this year I resolved to look for the larva?. A 

 diligent search (mostly on private ground) resulted in the capture of 

 a good number, spun up in bunches of terminal leaves, undergoing 



