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removed from the shed because of the heat. It does not seem certain 

 whether this specimen had pupated by that date or not. This occur- 

 rence raises a very interesting question as to the relationships of G. 

 rhamni and cleojMtra." 



CAPTURES AND FIELD REPORTS. 



Callidium violaceum at Esher. — Mr. Lucas has sent me a speci- 

 men of the above beetle, taken at Esher Station, Surrey, on June 

 12th, 1904. I do not think it is common in this district, — E. C. 

 Ansorge ; 12, Addison Road, Bedford Park, W. 



Deronectes latus in the New Forest. — I took one specimen of 

 this species among the shingle of a clear stream near Brockenhurst, 

 New Forest, on May 22nd, 1904. I should like to know whether any- 

 one else has taken it in the South of England. I have seen no 

 records of it from this part of England. — E. C. Ansorge. 



Pyrameis cardui at Dovercourt. — A few fresh examples have been 

 seen here in the lucerne fields, but no hybernated specimens were 

 noticed in the spring or early summer, nor did I observe any larvae, 

 though I fully expected to have done so, after the swarms of the 

 perfect insect that occurred here last autumn. What became of them ? 

 Did they pass on ? If they had remained to hybernate here it is not 

 likely that all would have perished during the winter, which was not a 

 severe one. — Gervase F. Mathew ; Dovercourt, Essex. 



Sphinx convolvuli at Dovercourt. — A male was brought to me 

 yesterday. It had been confined in a box that was much too small for 

 it, and in consequence was in poor condition. — Gervase Mathew ; 

 Dovercourt, Essex. 



CoLiAS EDUSA IN Cambs. — I saw siugle specimens of C. cdusa on 

 Aug. 5th, 8th, and 10th of this year, flying in various parts of the 

 country round Cambridge. They are the first I have seen in the 

 county since 1901. — S. L. Orford Young; Aug. 15th, 1904. 



CoLiAs EDUSA IN EssEX. — The first, a fresh-looking male, was seen 

 here on July 29th, when one of my boys covered it with his net, but 

 let it escape, and it then passed me at a furious rate, and we saw it no 

 more. The wind had been blowing fresh from the east and south- 

 east for several days previously. On Aug. 4th we caught two, a male 

 and female, in a lucerne field, and saw one or two more. The female 

 was confined in a breeding-cage, with a piece of lucerne, some syrup on 

 a sponge, and placed in the sun. On the morning of the 7th she was 

 found dead, but had deposited forty-two eggs on the muslin, twenty- 

 eight on lucerne, and three on the wire framework of the muslin hood ; 

 seventy-three in all. The eggs were placed upon some growing plants 

 of white clover, began to hatch on the 10th, and on the 16th the more 

 advanced larvae had already effected their first change. On the 9th a 

 female was seen, and three males were captured, but no more have 



