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The specimens were captured by the donor chiefly in 190S 

 and 1909 in tlie following counties and districts: — 



S. Devon, New Forest, Isle of Wight,. Sussex, Kent, Berk- 

 shire, Surrey, Middlesex, Essex, Cambridge, Nottingham, 

 Durham, Cumberland, Dumfries, and Inverness. 



The British Collections, especially the Lepidoptera, have 

 been greatly enriched during the past year by the kindness of 

 F. C. Woodforde, Esq., B.A., Exeter, who has collected in 

 several localities during 1910 and presented the following fine 

 series of specimens with excellent data : — 



From the Bude district, Cornwall (June-Sept.): — 140 butter- 

 flies, including a fine series of " the Large Blue," P. avion ; 

 646 moths; an example of Asilus crabroniforviis with its 

 Dipterous prey, for the bionomic series. 



From N. Wales (1908-10) and the following counties, &c. — 

 Cornwall, Isle of Wight (1900), S. Devon (1897, 1910), Essex 

 (1908), Huntingdon (1899, 1910), Oxfordshire, Staffordshire 

 (1909-10), Shropshire, Cheshire (1908-9), Lancashire (1897, 

 1904), Westmoreland, Rosshire (1908): — 22 butterflies, in- 

 cluding 10 CocnonyvipJia rothliebii (the "Marsh Ringlet"); 

 205 moths, including the following interesting Geometers — ■ 

 Acidalia Jiumiliata (6), EpJiyra pcndjilaria, v. s7ibochreataV\l ood- 

 forde (2, including the type of the van described in E. M. M., 

 1910, p. 114), v. siibroscata Woodforde (2), O. bidentata (2 me- 

 lanic vars.) ; and Noctuas — Nonagria concolor (4), Caradrina 

 ambigiia (7), Epimda hitulenta (i), Dianthecia bdrrettii {1), 

 Polia [nigrocincia) xanthomista {%),AcroHycta leporina, bred (2), 

 Diani/iccia conspersa, a bred series, Agrods as/nvort/iii (4) ; 

 13 Hymenoptera ; 29 Diptera ; i Hemipteron ; 4 Neuroptera; 

 3 Orthoptera. 



Some of the specimens in the above lists were captured 

 or bred by friends of the donor, and many were bred by him. 

 When no date is mentioned 19 10 is to be understood. 



Twenty-two Noctuid moths, including a series of Ortliosia 

 suspccta, from the neighbourhood of Market Drayton (Aug. 2, 

 1910) were presented by the captor, E. D. Bostock, Esq. Six 

 specimens were added to the general and the remainder to the 

 British collection. 



