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locality each season. I have searched fur it very much this year, but have 

 not fouud it outside of its former haunts, which shows it is getting more 

 restricted in habits. Some of the larvae I found were very small. Before 

 the first change it is a very different-looking larva, being then speckled all 

 over with black dots, which caused me to think at first I was to be the 

 fortunate captor of that lost species P. illustris, as the description of that 

 species in Stainton's ' Manual ' corresponded exactly ; but after the first 

 change it came to its normal colour. I believe this has not been noted 

 before. — M. M. Phipps; Victoria Road, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells. 



Sphinx pinastri in Sdffolk. — We have taken fifteen Sphinx pinastri 

 (images) here this year, and could have taken more. This makes the 

 fourth year out of five we have taken them here, but for the first time we 

 have beat the larvae of the species, thus proving beyond all doubt that 

 it lives and breeds here. I have about one hundred larvae feeding now. — 

 F. Mellusson ; Eendlesham, Woodbridge, August 2nd, 1895. 



CoENONYMPHA TYPHON (davus") IN Delamere Forest. — I am pleased 

 to note the discovery of three new localities in the Delamere Forest district 

 for this interesting butterfly. In its old habitat it is evidently extinct ; but, 

 in the first of the three new localities, a fine specimen was netted on June 

 2"2nd, and several in the second on the same day. This reminded me I had 

 marked, some miles away, last autumn, a likely-looking spot for the butter- 

 fly, and I was rewarded by taking six very fair specimens (four rather rubbed 

 and chipped) on the 29th. The Delamere form of the butterfly belongs to 

 the variety philoxenus = rothliebi. The eye-spots vary much in number 

 and size; there is much variation, as well, in the whitish bars, streaks, and 

 patches on the under surface of the wings. Underneath each lower wing 

 there are usually, if not always, six ocelli, varying, in the case of the largest, 

 from a tenth to the twentieth of an inch. Can any one say what is the 

 form of C. typlion between the Clyde and the Forth, on the one hand, and 

 the Cheviots, on the other ? The Irish form — disregarding inconstant 

 minor differences — seems to be the same as that in England and Wales. — 

 J. Arkle ; 2, George Street, Chester. 



CoLiAS EDUSA IN Kent. — On July 7th I took a fine male specimen of 

 C. edusa in an orchard near here, and since then have captured two others 

 and one female. — H. W. Shepheard-Walwyn ; Glensyde, Bidborough, 

 Tunbridge Wells. 



Variety of Gonopteryx (Rhodocera) rhamni. — On July 15th I 

 took a fine male G. rhamni with the left primary sprinkled with orange 

 spots. — H. W. Shepheard-Walwyn. 



Periplareta AMERICANA IN Kew Gardens. — I should like to record 

 the capture of a specimen of this cockroach on April 23rd. Though 

 common about docks in English sea-port towns, it is, at present at any 

 rate, seldom met with inland. — W. J. Lucas; St. Mary's, Knight's Park, 

 Kingston-on-Thames. 



Capture of Mallota cristaloides, Loew. — On July 18th, 1880, I 

 captured in the window of my study an Eristalid kind of large fly, which 

 baffled all attempts to name, although I submitted it to the late Professor 

 Westwood, Mr. Verrall, and the Natural History Museum authorities at 

 South Kensington. However, this year I found a similar specimen in the 



