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doptera (Butterflies), 6 pp., Mr. H. Goss. Lepidoptera (Moths), 40 pp., 

 Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher. Diptera (IG pp.), Mr. J. H. A. Jenner. 

 Hemiptera (12 pp.), Mr. E. A. Butler, 



CAPTUEES AND FIELD EEPORTS. 



Notes on Irish Lepidoptera. — In looking over my Westmeath 

 collection of Lepidoptera, and comparing them with Mr. Kane's Irish 

 list, it struck me that the following captures might be worth recording. 

 They are all from the neighbourhood of Mulliugar : — Dasychirafascelina. 

 One freshly-emerged specimen at rest on heather, July, 1903. I have 

 several times found the remains of the ichneumoned larvas attached to 

 the heather-tops. Mr. Kane gives two localities for this species, both in 

 King's County. — Acronycta leporina. Larvae not uncommon on alder. 

 — Tccniocampa opium. Two at sallow-bloom. — Hadena protea. I have 

 a single specimen from a pupa obtained at Clonlost. Only two previous 

 records, viz. one from Co. Galway, and one, Kilynin, Westmeath. — 

 H. rjlaiica. One bred from a larva taken on heather. — Apamea ophio- 

 gramma. Does not appear to be common. I took nine specimens one 

 evening. — Aviphidasys strataria. One only from a pupa. — B. L. 

 MiDDLETON ; Mullingar, Ireland. 



Lepidoptera in Hertfordshire in 1905. — At a meeting in connec- 

 tion with the Hertfordshire Natural History Society, held at the 

 County Museum, St. Albans, on March 6th, Mr. A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., 

 Recorder of Insecta for the Society, read his annual report on the 

 Lepidoptera observed in the county during the past year. He said 

 there were only two species to be added to the Hertfordshire list ; they 

 were Senta maritinia, taken at Tring by Mr. A. T. Goodson, and Xi/lo- 

 phasia scolopacina, recorded from Hitchin by Mr. A. H. Foster. Miss 

 Alice Dickinson, of New Farm, St. Albans, was the only observer who 

 reported the presence of Colias edusa, which apparently had not been 

 very plentiful in the British Isles during 1905. Cyaniris {LyccBua) 

 argiolus had also been conspicuous by its absence from its usual Hert- 

 fordshire haunts. Miss Dickinson reported the presence of var. 

 cmndeopuncta of Chrysophanus [FolyoDimatus) phlcBus, which Mr. Gibbs 

 thought was not so frequently met with in the county as formerly. 

 The presence of Acherontia atropos at St. Albans and Baldock was 

 noted, the specimen from the latter place having been picked up in the 

 middle of the North Road, and taken to Mr. Foster. For the second 

 time Miss Dickinson caught a Cussus ligniperda at sugar, and Mr. Gibbs 

 remarked that he had also taken it in the same way. Other insects 

 reported by Miss Dickinson were Notodonta camelina (beaten from 

 hazel), Bryophila perla (at sugar), Acro7iycta tridens (larva), Newia 

 reticulata, Dianthcecia cucubali, Cucidlia umhratica, Pliisia moneta, P. 

 chrysitis and P. pnlchrina, Ennomos erosaria, Hemcrophila abruptaria, 

 Anticlea nigrofasciaria, and Pelurga comitata. Mr, Foster, of Tiie 

 Grange, Hitchin, sent in an interesting report, in which he mentioned 

 the capture of three specimens of Geometra papiUunaria at light ; 

 Eupithecia scabiosata, in abundance on Pegsdon Hills ; Melanthiu alvi- 



