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Nine butterflies, including 5 Nomiades arion, 37 moths, 

 including 1 ? Agrotis luniger a, and 20 mixed insects, including 

 a set of the Melolonthid beetle Rhizotrogus ocJiraceus y only 

 recently recaptured and confirmed as British, from N. Corn- 

 wall (1911). Two of the moths were bred in N. Cornwall 

 from ova laid by a female captured in the New Forest and 

 2 from a female taken at Sutton Cold field. 



One Lycacna (Cyaniris) argio/us, May 11, 191 1, from 

 Clevedon, Somerset. 



A fine collection of British insects of many groups, captured 

 1 909-1 1 in N. Devon, from several localities, almost exclusively 

 in the neighbourhood of Mortehoe, was presented by the 

 captor, Dr. G. B. Longstaff, D.M., F.R.C.P., New College, 

 Oxford. 



The collection is made up of the following : — Hymenoptera, 

 considerably over 113, inasmuch as two or more are often 

 mounted on the same card ; Diptera, 327, including a fine 

 series of Syrphidae, of which all the difficult or obscure species 

 were determined by the late G. H. Verrall, Esq.; Neuroptera, 5 ; 

 Coleoptera, over 83 ; Rhynchota, over ^ ; Orthoptera, 14. 

 The collection also includes the following specimens for the 

 bionomic series : — 5 Empidae, with Dipterous prey of the 

 following kinds respectively — an Anthomyid, a Dolichopid, 

 Siphoua geniculata, Syrp/ius ribesii, Lucilia caesar ; 1 Scato- 

 pliaga stercoraria, with Dipterous prey ; 2 TentJircdinidae, 

 one with Dipterous prey, one with Tenthredinid prey; the 

 Tenthredinid Allantus arcuatus together with a a* humble 

 bee, Psithyrus barbutellus, a much larger insect, which it 

 repeatedly tried to drive off a flower-head of Scabious ; 

 2 Bombus agrorum, a common humble bee, and 2 Arctophila 

 mussitans, a much rarer fly. The bee and fly may be seen 

 together on the same patch of Centaurca nigra, although these 

 particular specimens were not so taken. 



Three o* and 14 $ Clisiocampa castrensis, bred July 24-31, 

 from larvae found, June 26, mostly on Statice lunouittm, at 

 Rushenden Spit, Queenborough, Sheppey, were presented by 

 Commander J. J. Walker, Hon. M.A., F.E.S. The larvae were 

 subsequently fed on apple at Oxford. 



