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M, Lyom ; 86, Kensington Park Road, London, W., November 8tb, 

 1906. 



CoLiAs EDUSA IN Hants. — The records of the occurrence of this 

 species during the past season have been very few, so it may be 

 interesting to note that on August 13tb, when I was riding between 

 Wimborne and Kingwood, a fine fresh-looldng male crossed the road 

 in front of me just before I entered the latter town. This is the only 

 one I have seen. — Gervase F. Mathew ; Dovercourt, November 7th, 

 1906. 



Plusia moneta in Cheshire. — My friend Mr. H. S. Slade recently 

 showed me a somewhat worn specimen of P. moneta, which his father 

 had captured in his house early in September, the moth having been 

 attracted to the room by light. Another friend also records the finding 

 of two pupas of this species on monkshood at Bramhall, in the same 

 county. The imagines appeared early in September. — B. H. Crab- 

 tree ; Cringle Lodge, Levenshulme, Manchester, October 2oth, 1906. 



Interesting Planipennia (Neuroptera). — On October 17th last, 

 Mr. Gr. C. Champion gave me two specimens each of Micromus varie- 

 gatus and Sisijra fuscata, taken recently at Woking, in Surrey. — • 

 W. J. Lucas. 



Dipterygia scabriusctila in September. — This species seems to be 

 rather erratic in its time of appearance. I generally expect to see it 

 at sugar about the end of the first week in July, but in 1905 I took 

 rather a worn specimen as early as May 29th, and this year a fine 

 fresh example as late as September 6th ; the latter no doubt from 

 June or July parents. I have on several occasions bred large numbers 

 from the egg. It is an easy species to rear, the larvffi feeding up 

 rapidly on knot-grass ; but each time I have bred them, more than 

 half the moths have emerged the second year.— Gervase F. Mathew ; 

 Dovercourt, November 7th, 1906. 



Deilephila livornica, Sphinx convolvuli, and Laphygma exigua 

 at Lewes, Sussex. — A specimen of D. livornica was brought to me 

 about June 26th, and I took one example of L. exigua at light. Three 

 records of ^S'. convolvuli have come under my notice ; one, which I 

 possess, being a very large and fine specimen. L. exigua is, I believe, 

 a new record for Lewes, but a single specimen was taken at Brighton, 

 by Mr. Vine, in 1884. D. livornica has been captured at Lewes on 

 several previous occasions, but not recently. Mr. Tonge, however, 

 exhibited a living larva of this species at the meeting of the South 

 London Entomological and Natural History Society held on August 

 9th last. — W. Jarvis ; 22, Leicester Pioad, Lewes, October 29th, 1906. 



Deiopeia pulchella in Sussex. — Some time towards the end of 

 September I noticed a moth in a spider's web, but altliough passing 

 the spot almost every day, I did not consider it worth while to climb 

 up and inspect it. After passing and repassing the insect some forty 

 times or so, my curiosity was aroused, and climbing up, I secured the 

 enveloped moth. You may imagine my surprise when I found that 

 the insect was a specimen of IK pulchella. Luckily I managed to relax 

 and extricate it from the web, and it now graces my collection. Ic is 



