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small estate of four hundred acres, on which are about a hundred 

 acres of wood, chiefly oak. Since I came here, five years ago, my 

 experience has been very disappointing. Both treacle and light seem 

 to be losing tlieir power of attracting. I shall be glad to hear from 

 some of your correspondents, whether they have had a similar expe- 

 rience in other parts of the country. I live about two miles and three- 

 quarters from Hayward's Heath, in a country which looks very suit- 

 able for collectmg, but I have not found it so. V. atalanta has been 

 very scarce this year, as it was last. Two years ago it swarmed. — 

 A. H. Rydon ; Awbrook, Lindfield, Sussex, Oct. 4th. 



CoLiAs EDusA IN CORNWALL. — I noticed two specimens of C. edusa 

 in September of this year, on the West Cornwall golf-links at Lelant, 

 Hayle, Cornwall. — Harold Hodge ; 9, Highbury Place, N. 



Sesia myopiformis in London. — I took a perfect specimen of S. 

 myopifurnm in the garden of this house early in June last. There 

 are several pear-trees in the gardens about here, one quite close by 

 of great size and age. But, though I have observed the insects in this 

 garden for over fourteen years, I have never seen S. wyopiforinis here 

 before. — Harold Hodge ; 9, Highbury Place, N. 



Capture of Sesia allantiformis, Newm. (= andreniformis, Lasp.) 

 in Dorsetshire. — On August 23rd I swept a male of this grand 

 addition to our county fauna at Glanvilles Wootton, oft' feverfew 

 flowers. This enables me to state that my specimen from the New 

 Forest, recorded as Sesi/i conopifuniiis (Entom. vol. xxvii. pp. 245, 342 ; 

 vol. xxix. p. 185), is the female of S. andreniformu. Laspeyres, in his 

 work on European Sesiida;, states that he has not seen the female. 

 This sex differs from the male in having three instead of two yellow 

 rings round the abdomen, and in having a black anal tuft with a few 

 yellow hairs on each side instead of the yellow tuft so characteristic 

 of the male. Like the male, the femora are violet black, but the 

 tibial portions of the legs are yellow- 

 Previous records of S. allantiformis: — 1. By Mr. Chant, in a wood 

 near Greenhithe, in July, 1829 (Ent. Mag. vol. i. p. 80). 2. By Mr. 

 Harding, also near Greenhithe, in July, 1846 (' Zoologist,' vol. iv. 

 p. 1515). 3. By Piev. A. H. Wratislaw, between Dover and Folkestone, 

 in 1859 (Entom. vol. iv. p. 214). 4. By Rev. A. M. Matthews, near 

 Market Harborough, in 1868 (Newman's ' Moths,' p. 15). 5. By Master 

 Jenney, near Tring, on July 15th, 1876 (Entom. vol. ix. p. 204). 6. By 

 R. C. L. Perkins, at Wootton-under-Edge, in 1886 (Entom. vol. xx. 

 p. 108). 7. Two, by Mr. Davis, at Dover, on July 10th and 14th, 1889 

 (Entom. vol. xxii. p. 211). — C. W. Dale ; Glanvilles Wootton, 

 August 27th, 1902. 



PiERis daplidice IN SussEx. — Mr. A. Wood records in the ' Field ' 

 the capture of /'. daplidice on August 29tli, 1902, near the racecourse 

 at Brighton.— F. W. F. 



Papilio machaon in Berks. — Mr. A. Wood reports in the ' Field ' 

 a specimen of P. viachaon captured near Wellington College station in 

 July, 1902.— F. W. F. 



Lyc^na argiolus at Rotherhithe. — I captured a male specimen 



