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Toxocampa pastinum was caught flying. Both were presumably 
members of a partial second brood, and in the case of T. pastinwm 
this is probably worth noting. It is perhaps also desirable that the 
locality should be put on record.—W. G. WuirrineHam; Knighton 
Vicarage, Leicester. 
ARASCHNIA LEVANA REPORTED FROM HEREFORDSHIRE.—I beg to 
record the capture of two specimens of A. levana at Symond’s Yat, 
near Ross, Herefordshire, between July 20th and 24th last. Another 
collector, whom I met in the district, informed me that he had taken 
nearly a dozen examples several miles away.—A. W. Huauss; 
33, Dacy Road, Everton, Liverpool, October 24th, 1914. 
GRAPTA C-ALBUM AND ARASCHNIA LEVANA FROM ForEst oF DEAN.— 
Amongst a few Grapta c-albwm recently reared from a Forest of 
Dean female, I have bred two aberrations. Unfortunately one is 
dwarfed and crippled, but the other is a perfect male. The usual 
two spots in the outer area of the primaries are represented by 
a small dot, whilst the secondaries have the darker markings spread 
over almost the whole of the wing, obliterating the ground-colour 
and giving the wings a smeared appearance. This aberration is 
rather similar to one I captured in the same district in July, 1912, 
except that the wild specimen is of the hutchinsont form, and the 
markings are of a deeper brown. Araschnia levana was about in 
the Forest during the latter half of July last. Hight specimens fell 
to my share, and I heard of five others being taken.—G. B. OLIvER; 
October 22nd, 1914. 
CoRDULEGASTER ANNULATUS IN THE NympxH Srace.—Following 
up a note in the ‘ Entomologist’ of October last (p. 278), I may 
mention that on October 2nd I found the nymphs of Cordulegaster 
annulatus in some marshes at Augarrack, near Hayle, Cornwall, in 
various stages of growth. Some were small enough, I should say, to 
have been hatched this season; others were, so far as outward 
appearances go, full grown, and might have emerged this summer. 
These will not now come out until next June. They certainly can- 
not have been hatched later than in June or July, 1913, which would 
make their nymph stage two years in all. But they may have been 
hatched in 1912. It seems strange they should be full grown, 
externally, at any rate, nine or ten months before they emerge.— 
Harotp Hoper; 9, Highbury Place, N., November 14th, 1914. 
FoRMALDEHYDE USEFUL IN Sertina Insecrs.—lIt is safe to say 
that, at some time or other during one’s career as a collector, everybody 
has viewed with disgust the relaxing and consequent drooping of 
wings of one or more cherished imagines that have been placed in the 
cabinet or store-box. It struck me last spring that this might be 
overcome by the use of formaldehyde. I think that I may say my 
experiment has been crowned with complete success. My procedure 
briefly is this:—After the moths or butterflies have been on the 
setting board for a fortnight or three weeks—a fortnight is quite 
sufficient—place the board with imagines, as they are, in a box that 
