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Unusual Pairing of Dkagonflies. — I think I ought to record the 

 fact that on Aug. 15th Last, in Talbot Woods, near Bournemouth, I 

 took a male .Eschna cijanea paired with a female ^.juncea. — W. J. 

 Lucas ; St. Mary's, Knight's Park, Kingston-on-Thames. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 This Society announces an exhibition to be hold at St. Martin's Town 

 Hall, near Trafalgar Square, on October 17th next. We congratulate 

 the committee of management upon having secured such a very con- 

 veniently situated building for the purpose, and we hope that all who 

 are interested in natural history will give the enterprise their hearty 

 support. Particulars may be obtained from the Hon. Sec, Mr. 

 Stanley Edwards, Kidbrook Lodge, Blackheath, S.E. 



CAPTURES AND FIELD EEPORTS. 



Mallota eristaloides. — T was glad to note in your last number that 

 Mr. Dale reports having taken this insect (wrongly printed "eristaloides") 

 as far back as 1880. The fact of this specimen being taken on the 18th, 

 and mine fourteen years later, on July 20th, seems to mark the month 

 when it should be sought for; and partly with this object in view I started 

 for the New Forest on July 15th. Owing to the very hot weather during 

 May and June, the season proved unusually early, and on my arrival 

 T found nearly all the other Diptera I expected to collect were already over, 

 although in 1894 they were only just coming out, and this may have been 

 the case with Mallota, supposing it put in an appearance at all. My 

 efforts, therefore, as regards this species were fruitless, or rather insectless ; 

 but I still hope we may have a Mallota year, as we have had those of 

 Callicera, Spilomyia, &c. — F. C. Adams ; 68, St. Ermin's Mansions, West- 

 minster; and Fern Cottage, Lyndhurst. 



Melanostoma hyalinatum and Callicera zenea. — The former 

 insect has turned up in some numbers this year in the New Forest, and 

 during the first fortnight of August I took nine males and nine females. It 

 was still out when I left, and Mr. Venall informs me he has not seen it 

 for twenty-five years. I also saw a fine specimen of C. (enea taken by a 

 lady last June in a garden at Lyndhurst.— F. C. Adams; Sept. 12th, 1895. 



Callicera ^nea in Hampshire — On May 22nd last I had the good 

 fortune to capture a very perfect specimen of Callicera anea, which settled 

 on a rose in our garden. I believe I am right in saying that this fly has 

 not been taken since 1888, when three specimens were recorded from 

 different localities. — Laurence C. Chawner; Lyndhurst, Hants. 



DeiopEia pulchella in Sussex. — When staying at Bexhill, this time 

 last year, I succeeded in capturing a very fine specimen of Deiopea pulchella. 

 — Alistoir R. Potter; Hazeldeue, Bexley, Kent, Aug. 30th, 1895. 



Stilbia anomala in Nottinghamshire. — I have the pleasure to 

 record a fine specimen of Stilbia anomala taken here by my sister on 

 Aug. 23rd. Newman says, "It would seem that no entomologist has 

 observed it in the Midland Counties of England." I find an old note of 



