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he sits lazily expanded on the end of a twig or on the sunny side 

 of a paling ,- a most sporting insect, too ; a regular dodger, hard 

 to catch by reason of his floppy tumbling flight, and tantalising 

 withal, inasmuch as when caught he is nearly always snipped or 

 rubbed, so that each successive specimen you see — and miss — 

 seems finer than any you already possess. 



But there was nobler game abroad in the forest, and if I had 

 not been very much abroad also, I should have had several 

 head of it. In one of those unhappy moments which come to 

 entomologists as well as to other people, when you feel inclined 

 to wish that the earth would open and swallow you, I missed a 

 sitting shot at a grand Apatura iris that let me get within a yard 

 of it, while I was beating up a patch of bracken. I had other 

 chances — and missed them — but this was the chance of a season. 

 There were many A. iris about, but the great heat seemed to 

 make them lazy, and the most they would do was to take a 

 leisurely turn round the tree tops, well out of reach of the net. 



Moths were not a serious object, but I made one final 

 sugaring expedition, when the local collectors had almost come 

 to despair of C. 'promissa, and had the pleasure of opening the 

 long-deferred season by the capture of three fine " crimsons." 

 We also took Triphcena fimbria and one enormous Cossus lir/ni- 

 perda. But sugaring in our time was not a success. I can only 

 hope that later arrivals have been more successful. Moths 

 beaten out in the daytime included Liparis monacha and Lithosia 

 quadra. The latter species has been very abundant in the forest 

 this year, and once or twice I saw the female flying in bright 

 sunshine. On the whole, the season seems a good one, and I 

 expect to read many favourable reports from collectors who have 

 bided their time and then made the most of it. I cannot with a 

 clear conscience say that I did either ; but though my list of 

 captures left much to be desired, I shall always remember with 

 pleasure my visit to the forest in the glorious weather of July, 1900. 



Pampisford Vicarage. 



NOTES ON TRIECFHORA SANGUINOLENTA, Maksh., Edw. 

 By Eev. F. a. Walker, D.D. 



Triecphora vuhierata, Illiger ; Cercopis vulnerata, Illig., Curtis ; 

 C. sanguinolenta, Panz., Burm. 



This very handsome species of British Cicada is sure to 

 attract attention wherever noticed, being tropical or semi-tropical 

 in appearance, and not resembling any of its English congeners 

 or any ordinary English insect, with the possible sole exception 

 of its wing-cases bearing a likeness to the fore wings of Zygcena 



