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Spilosoma Inhricipeda. Very common at the lamps in Dorking. 

 Larvae, June 27th ; imagines, May 22nd. — S. menthastri. Very 

 common at lamps. May 10th. 



Hepialus humuli. Taken at the lamps and by dusking. June 10th. 

 — H. lupiiUnus. Taken at the lamps. June 7th. 



Zeuzera pyrina. Taken at rest, July 6th ; ova deposited, same 

 da^. Larvae, July 23rd, died. 



(To be continued.') 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Collecting in France. — I shall be greatly obliged if collectors 

 visiting French localities other than the Alps will kindly send me a 

 note of the butterflies captured or observed by them, with dates. — H. 

 Eowland-Brown ; Oxhey Grove, Harrow Weald. 



Orthetrum c^rulesoens in Essex. — On July 22nd, 1900, we took, 

 in Epping Forest, near Chingford, a male specimen of this dragonfly, 

 but we have never obtained another example. We were unable to find 

 any other record of the occurrence of the species in Essex, and it is 

 not even included in Doubleday's generous list of 1871. — F. W. & H. 

 Campion ; 33, Maude Terrace, Walthamstow. 



Panorpa germanica. — On June 13th last, I took, near Haslemere, an 

 almost immaculate male of this species. The chief markings are a 

 black tip to each of the wings, and a black spot at the pterostigma. 

 This form of the insect looks very different from the usual one, which 

 is very much more spotted. — W. J. Lucas. 



Food of Monopis rusticella. — In the ' Proceedings ' of the Zoolo- 

 gical Society for 1896, p. 281, Lord Walsingham observed : " It would 

 be curious to ascertain whether our common 2\ tapetzclla has ever been 

 found feeding in the dry casts of owls." .... I do not know whether 

 this has yet been recorded, but this year I found some owl's casts 

 containing larvae, and bred from them a number of specimens of 

 Monopis rusticella. — (Major) C. G. Nurse ; Timworth Hall, Bury St. 

 Edmunds. 



Tephrosia LURiDATA, ABERRATION. — On May 6th, 1906, I had a nice 

 variety of T. luridata {extersaria) emerge ; it is almost white, the 

 ground colour is a shining white, and the usual markings are a pale 

 buff, only just showing out on the white ground. In general appear- 

 ance it looks very much like a light-coloured example of Cabera exan- 

 themata, but more delicate. It was bred from a number of pupfe I had 

 from Mr. Newman, of Bexley. All the other specimens are normal. — 

 William Daws ; Mansfield, Notts. 



Note on the Resting Attitudes of some Butterflies. — I have 

 noticed recently, both near Aldbury (Herts) and in the Wye Valley 

 (Mon.), cases of heliotropism with Sijrichthus malva and Nisoniades 

 tayes (particularly the latter). When settling on a flower-head they 



