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(5) Lesies spojisa was fairly plentiful in certain localities. 

 Our first specimens were taken on July lOtb, and our last on 

 August 21st. 



(6) Sympetrum striolatiim was not so common as usual ; our 

 captures ranged from July 17th to September 24th. 



(7) Libelliila depressa. — Although this active species had been 

 on the wing for about six weeks, we were unable to obtain an 

 example until July 24th. Our specimen was a male, and the 

 yellow lateral spots on the dorsal surface were confined to seg- 

 ments three and four, instead of being extended to segments five 

 and six, as in the typical form. 



(8) Mschna cyanea fell to our net on several occasions be- 

 tween August 13th and October 9th. 



(9) lE. grandis we found to be scarcer than usual ; we collected 

 only one specimen (August 28th). 



We have again to report the apparent absence of Sympetrum 

 sangiiineum, at one time tolerably abundant near Chingford. 

 This year JEschna mixta seems to have disappeared entirely from 

 our locality. Another species remarkable for its seeming total 

 absence was Anax imperator, a specimen or two of which may 

 usually be seen, in the proper season, hawking over a certain pond 

 in the neighbourhood of Loughton. 



33, Maude Terrace, Walthamstow, Essex : 

 November 3rd, 1904. 



NOTES ON A MONTH'S COLLECTING IN NOKMANDY. 

 By G. Meade-Waldo, F.E.S. 



This year I spent a month (July 5th to August 5th) in a 

 charming out-of-the-world village called Gace, in the Department 

 of Orne ; it is what the guide-book for Normandy calls a " petite 

 ville industrielle," though what Gace has for industries I never 

 found out. The chief crop was hay, generally combined with an 

 orchard. The crop of apples this year was enormous. The 

 house where I was staying had a large overgrown garden, and 

 in this the greater part of my moth -collecting took place. Of 

 flower- border plants there were practically none, but the wild 

 flowers were well represented. 



Among Ehopalocera, I noticed very little, except the ordinary 

 " whites " and commoner Vanessids. V. egea was, however, 

 tolerably common, and easily to be caught when feeding on my 

 " sugar " of the previous evening. 



A visit to the Foret d'Evroults, distant about seven kilo- 

 metres, ensured the capture of Limenitis sibylla, Thecla ilicis, 

 and Cccnomjmplia arcania ; while towards the end of the month 



