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this, I think, is owing to the fact that in 1893 I was living in a part: 
of Lincolnshire in which I never found the species. In that 
wonderfully early year, greatly resembling in this respect the present 
year of grace, there may be found on p. 247 of vol. i of Tutt’s 
‘British Butterflies’ no fewer than fifteen records of this species. 
occurring in April, the three earliest being April 7th at Hereford, 
April 9th at Hynsford and April 10th at Stroud, all these being 
earlier than Mr. Jaques’ date of April 12th. This spring I was 
unable to visit the haunts of malve, a few fields away from here, till 
May 13th, when I saw. several specimens on the wing, but I am 
taking it for granted that it was out in April, and therefore that a 
freshly emerged male I took yesterday (June 28th, 1921) almost 
certainly belonged to a second brood. The locality is a hot. grassy 
field, surrounded on three sides by a wood, and I cannot conceive’ 
that a hibernated pupa failed to emerge during the glorious weather 
we had in April and in May. Among Tutt’s records 7m loco cttato I 
find July 16th, 1905, at Shepton Mallet. This is probably also a — 
second emergence, as the species was out early in this year also, viz. 
on May 9th here at Hazeleigh, and in Aprilnear Wendover. Against 
my argument, however, are two late dates in such a backward year 
as 1902, when Burrows took it at Chattenden on July 16th, and 
Whittle found it at Thundersley on August 2nd—probably the only 
August date ever recorded in Great Britain——(Rev.) Ginpert H. 
Raynor; Hazeleigh Rectory, Maldon, Hssex. 
OvrposITING OF SESIA MYOPZFORMIS.—I was interested to see a 
2 S. myopefornis depositing ova on July 2nd last in a very hot sun. 
_ The insect hovered in front of the apple-trunk in circles, with wings 
vibrating almost like a burnet. Once a suitable position was found 
the insect alighted, curving its abdomen, with the anal tuft fanned 
_ out, and, so far as I could ascertain, the ova were deposited at the 
back of loose pieces of bark. The whole operation took about three 
seconds, the wood selected being the almost dead wood adjoining the 
living.—G. Bertram Kersuaw, M.Inst.C.E.; West Wickham, Kent. 
OXIGRAPHA LITERANA, L., iy LANcAsHIRE.—I took a specimen of 
this moth off a silver birch trunk in Eggerslack Wood, Grange-oyer- 
Sands, on, April 25th, 1920. It is type form, resembling fig. 1 of 
Plate Iin the June ‘ Entomologist.’ There appear to be few or perhaps 
no previous Lancashire records.—J. Davis Warp; Limehouse, 
Grange-over-Sands. 
Erratic EMERGENCES.—On June 27th a specimen of Te@niocampa 
numosa emerged in my pupex-cage, the rest of the brood having 
come out normally in early April. I have now a further lot of pup 
of the same species from larve which my children beat at Arnside on 
May 16th. These went down about June 7th, ten days earlier than 
those I had last year, to which the above belated specimen belongs. 
Nemeobius lucina, bred from the egg last summer, and kept during the 
winter in my sitting-room, began to emerge in January, and dribbled 
out, one or two each week, till the last, which appeared yesterday, 
June 26th, a full month after the wild ones were flying. This species 
is spreading rapidly in Westmorland. My friends all tell me that _ 
Lepidoptera are scarce this season here, though the early part of the 
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