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ADDITIONS TO THE BRITISH COLLECTIONS IN 1904. 
A male and female of the Geometrid moth, Amphidasis 
betularta, captured zz cozti, at Weston-super-Mare, July 10, 
1904, were presented by Dr. W. H. Jackson, D.Sc., M.A., 
Keble College. The female is of the type form, while the 
male is a black variety approaching dowbledayaria. Dr. 
Jackson also presented 7 insects captured, July 14, 1904, upon 
the flowers of Oenxothera lamarckiana, in the same locality. 
A specimen of the common Noctuid moth, Plogophora 
meticulosa, captured, Nov. 11, 1904, at Paddington Station, 
was presented by the Professor. 
Three examples of British butterflies injured apparently 
by the attacks of enemies, (Huntingfield, near Faversham, 
Kent, Sept. 1903 and 1904) were presented by the captor, 
A. J. Chitty, Esq., M.A., Balliol College. Another interesting 
addition to the bionomic series is the head of a Bombus 
found, May 1903, on the top of a gate-post near the same 
locality. When found by Mr. Chitty the jaws were still 
opening and shutting. It is evident that the head was all 
that remained of a humble-bee recently devoured, probably 
by a bird. 
The following rare or extremely local insects were also 
presented by the captor, A. J. Chitty, Esq. :—Hydroporus 
bilineatus, March, 1891, Deal, new to the British list: the 
“earwig,” Apterygida media, Sept., 1894, Huntingfield (in hop- 
field); recorded in Ent. Month. Mag., 1904, p. 261: two 
examples of the beetle Axthribus albinus, Sept., 1902, Hunting- 
field (in old hedge): the beetle, Bembzdium virens, probably 
captured at Beauley, Inverness, in Sept., 1893. 
A specimen of the moth, Cerura vinula, emerged Oct. 28, 
1405, from a larva found July 20, 1904, at Oxford, and pre- 
sented by Mr. J. Mogridge. The unusually late emergence is 
interesting. P 
Twenty-nine insects of various groups from the neighbour- 
hood of Oxford (1904) were presented by the captor, Com- 
mander J. J. Walker, Hon. M.A. The most interesting were 
