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Other followed two days later on. I did not force them. — T. L. Howe ; 

 Beaufort Howe, Penarth. 



Catocala nopta in 1899. — Seeing Mr. Colthrup's note on C. nupta 

 {ante, p. 13), I thought that my own captures of this insect might be of some 

 use. I first took C. nupta at sugar in my garden about five years ago. 

 Since then the species has become more and more common. In 1898 1 

 took it as late as Nov. 3rd. Last year I took twenty-four specimens 

 between Aug. 7th and Sept. 15th, although it was less common at Dulwich 

 than usual. — S. A. Blenkaen ; Clifton- House. East Dulwich Road, S.E., 

 Jan. 7th, 1900. 



Captures of Odonata. — I have taken the following dragonflies at 

 various times, and Mr. Lucas has very kindly identified them for me. He 

 also informs me that the first-named has occurred only very infrequently 

 in England. It was found dead, on the library steps, Folkestone, by Mr. 

 S. G. Hills, to whom I am indebted for the specimen : — 



JEschiia mixta. Folkestone, Oct. 3rd, 1899. 



Orthetrum ccerulescens. Three males and one female ; New Forest, 

 July 4th, 1899. 



Sympetrum striolatum. Two specimens ; Ramsgate, Sept. 21st, 1899. 



Ischnura elegans. Very plentiful ; Leatherhead, June 22nd, 1897. 



Agrion pulchelimn. Ramsgate, July 27th, 1898. — C. W. Colthrup ; 

 127, Barry Road, East Dulwich, S.E., Jan. 12Lh, 1900. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



The Hymenoptera of Suffolk. Part I. — Aculeata. By Claude Morley, 

 F.E.S., &c. Pp. viii, 22; map. Plymouth : James H. Keys. 1899. 



The present instalment of Mr. Morley's catalogues of the insects 

 of " that best of entomological counties, Suffolk," according to Wratis- 

 law, whose remark is quoted on the title-page, deals with the Aculeate 

 Hymenoptera. Most of the comparatively few entomologists who have 

 studied this very interesting, but still somewhat neglected group of 

 insects, have collected more or less in this county, from the time of 

 the Rev. William Kirby, who published one of his most important 

 works, the * Monographia Apum Angliae,' as long ago as 1802, to the 

 present day. 



The Aculeata are not a very extensive group ; but out of the three 

 hundred and seventy-four British species recognized by Mr. E. Saunders 

 (our best living authority) in 1896, Mr. Morley is enabled to enumerate 

 no less than two hundred and eighty- two as indigenous to Suffolk, 

 though a glance at the map will show that only a comparatively small 

 portion of the county has yet been explored by hymenopterists. Ten 

 years ago only two hundred and thirty-one species were recorded for 

 the adjoining county of Norfolk. We may quote the entry of one 

 species, taken at random, as an illustration of Mr. Morley's method : — 



Dasypida. 

 1. Hirtipes, Latr. Barhamiae, declivia graminosa frequentans. 

 In floribus etiam Jacobace uterque sexus baud infrequens (Kirby). — 



