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I have seen this year, if, as I beheve, one I saw next day in the same 

 place was the same specimen. — Harold Hodge ; 9, Highbury Place, 

 London, N. 



Dragonflies bred in 1906. — I have bred this year Cordulegaster 

 amiulatus, /Eschna grandis, j-E. cyanea, Cordulia cBnea, Calo})teryx virgo, 

 Erythromma naias, Pyrrhosoma nympJmla, Agrion puella, and Enal- 

 lagma cyathigerum. I have found the nymphs as plentiful this year as 

 last year I found them scarce, collecting in the same localities. — 

 Harold Hodge ; Highbury Place, London, N. 



Cirrhcedia xerampelina in HERTFORDsmRE. — In early spring I 

 secured, by searching the bark of an old ash-tree, three larvns which 

 seemed to be those of G. xerampelma. I put them in a box with a 

 piece of flannel, which they seemed to welcome in the prevailing cold. 

 When the buds came out I tempted them and found that they ate 

 them greedily. They fed up and changed. A week ago I had the 

 reward in two imagines emerging. I searched at the root of this tree 

 and have found two pup^e. — (Rev.) E. Everett; Markyate, near Dun- 

 stable, August 29th, 1906. 



Deilephila livornica and Sphinx convolvuli in South Wales. — 

 During the second week in September last my brother captured a 

 specimen of D. livornica and eleven examples of S. convolvxdi at one 

 patch of tobacco in flower. He was also fortunate in obtaining, in the 

 same garden, a specimen of the first-named moth last spring. — Leslie 

 F. Burt; Broadley, Coedcanias, Begelly, R.S.O., Pembrokeshire. 



Sphinx convolvuli and Colias edusa in Sussex. — A good female 

 specimen of S. convolvuli was brought me on October 1st, which had 

 been caught near here, fluttering over some waste ground. I also beg 

 to report the capture, on the 10th inst., in a garden close here, of a 

 perfect male C. edusa. — G. E. H. Peskett ; 4, Clermont Road, Preston, 

 Brighton, October 21st, 1906. 



Some Entomological Notes from Barnstaple. — Wasps have this 

 year been quite rare in the district, and I scarcely saw one till the 

 beginning of September. Now (September 13th) they are growing 

 more numerous, and in South Devon I am told they have been 

 common all the summer. A fine specimen of Sirex gigas on August 

 27th, crawling over a felled larch-tree. It was rather sluggish, and I 

 could not induce it to fly. At Santon, on June 5th, I saw and 

 watched for nearly five minutes a perfect specimen of Ikilephila 

 livornica. It was flying about in the sunlight and pitched on a piece 

 of sandstone rock, where I was able to observe it closely. Several 

 others, 1 believe, have been taken in the neighbourhood. Among the 

 sandhills near Braunton lighthouse the ladybirds Coccinella 7-jnmctata 

 and 11-punctata have, this summer, been in immense numbers. I 

 first noticed them at the end of July, when all the herbage was covered 

 with them and their larvte and pupae. On several occasions I detected 

 a "seven-spot" larva feeding on another larva of the same species. 

 In each case the grub that was being eaten had a large round hole on 

 the under side of the abdomen, where its cannibalistic brother was 

 gnawing. The "eleven-spot" was the less numerous of the two. 



