THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XXXIL] MAY, 18 99. [No. 432. 



NOTES ON EMYDIA CRIBRUM, L. 

 By Eustace R. Bankes, M.A., F.E.S. 



In the course of his observations on this species in Entom. 

 xxv. pp. 269-271 (1892) , Mr. Fowler says : " Stainton's ' Manual ' 

 gives Blandford and the New Forest as localities, which I think 

 decidedly wrong ; I have a fair knowledge of each, but have 

 never seen a specimen in either. It would be interesting to 

 know whether it still exists in either of these localities." I 

 believe I may safely say that E. cribrum has never to this day 

 been taken, either in the immediate neighbourhood of Bland- 

 ford, or in any part of the New Forest, although hundreds of ova 

 have at various times been turned out in the latter district. Both 

 these localities were entered in Stainton's ' Manual ' on the 

 authority of the late Mr. Frederick Bond, and both can be easily 

 explained, thanks to information kindly given me by the Bev. 

 0. P. Cambridge, who was an intimate friend and frequent com- 

 panion of Mr. Bond. 



1. "Blandford," as there used, really means "Bloxworth, 

 Dorset," the foundation for the record being the fact, well known 

 to Mr. Bond, that several single examples of E. cribrum were 

 taken on Bloxworth Heath, by the Bev. 0. P. Cambridge, in 

 1855. Bloxworth is about seven miles, as the crow flies, to the 

 south of Blandford. Mr. Bond used often to stay with Mr. 

 Cambridge at Bloxworth Bectory, and always, for strategical 

 reasons, gave "Blandford" (the then post-town of Bloxworth) 

 as the locality for the more important captures made by him- 

 self, or others, at Bloxworth, or elsewhere in that rather wide 

 district. Mr. Cambridge tells me that he knows as a fact that 



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