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both taken freely by beating; Zonosoma inmctaria, Z. pendularla, and 

 Asthena luteata, all fairly plentiful; Z. porata one; E. heparata, one; 

 Acidalia remutaria, abundant; Macaria notata, plentiful; Niimeria pul- 

 veraria, several taken ; Lobophora viretata, one only taken ; Melanthia 

 albicillata and Melanippe hastata, several of both species; Cidaria corylata, 

 very abundant. At sugar, to which moths came freely, the following: — 

 Thyatlra hatis, Cymatophora duplaris, Acronycta leporina, A. megacephala 

 and A. alni, one specimen only of the latter; A. ritinicis, very abundant 

 (including the dark variety salicis), and A.psi ; Leucania comma; Xylophasia 

 rurea var. alopecurus, very abundant; Dipteryyia scahriuscula, Apamea 

 basitinca, A. gemina, Miana strigilis, Grammesia trigrammica, and Rusina 

 tenebrosa, very abundant; Noctua plecta ; TcBuiocampa gothica, one belated 

 specimen turned up ; Aplecta prasina, Hadena adusta and H. jwiphyrea, 

 very abundant; H. dentina, H. plsi, H. thalassina and H. genistcB ; one 

 early TriphcEna pronuba ; Euplexia hicipara, abundant; Phytometra anea 

 and Euclidia glyphica were taken in the daytime. Aplecta tincta and H. 

 dissimilis were added to the list by Mr. Woodforde a few nights later. — 

 E. W. H. Blagg ; Cheadle, Staffs., June 18th, 1895. 



Nyssia lapponaria in Scotland. — Mrs. Cross has read with interest 

 the report on N. lapponaria [ante, p. 1 63). In notes made here in 1874 

 she finds a little sketch of a caterpillar taken (as far as she can remem- 

 ber) on birch. Old Thomas Eedle, who used then to be constantly 

 at Rannoch, told her he believed it was N. lapponaria. She failed 

 in breeding it, as it shrivelled up and died in the pupa state. The larva 

 by her sketch is very like N. hispidaria, which she has frequently got 

 here, but shows a rather prominent point on one of the last segments. 

 Eedle was not often wrong in his conjectures, though at the time Mrs. 

 Cross could hardly believe she had found the scarce N. lapponaria. She is 

 glad to hear of its existence in Scotland being confirmed by Mr. Christy. — 

 Dalchosnie, Rannoch, June 19th. 



Tfir Earlier Dragonfltes. — My first capture this season was 

 Pyrrhosoma minium, Har., at the Black Pond, near Esher, on May 3rd, 

 but the species did not appear in any considerable numbers till the end of 

 the month ; its congener P. tenellum, Vill., was flying with it on June 9Lh. 

 A few specimens of Libelhda quadrimactilata, Linn., were out at the same 

 place on May 8th ; the species swarmed there at the beginning of June, as 

 well as over the Basingstoke Canal near Byfleet, and at Wisley Pond near 

 Ripley. Enallagma cyathigerum, Charp., was first sighted at the Black 

 Pond on May 8th; by June 4th it had increased in numbers and brilliancy 

 of colouring. Not a single Agrion puella, Linn., has fallen a victim there 

 so far this season, whereas at Wisley Pond, on June 3rd, but one E. cyathi- 

 gerum was taken, A. puella having apparently taken its place in the latter 

 locality. A very limp specimen of Cordulia oenea, Linn., was captured on 

 May 26th at the Black Pond ; it was out in profusion near Byfleet on June 

 3rd, and in smaller numbers at Wisley Pond on the same day, and at the 

 Black Pond on the next. On June 3rd a friend and myself secured seven 

 %'^Qc\mQns oi Brachytron pratense, Miill., some near Byfleet and others at 

 Wisley Pond, while between the two places Caloptenjx splendens, Har., 

 might have been taken in large numbers. Ischnura elegans turned up on 

 the same day at Wisley Pond, one being also secured at the Black Pond 

 the next day. On June 2nd a fine male Anaxfonnosus, Lind., was sighted 

 at close quarters at the Black Pond ; and on the dull afternoon of the 4th 



