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CAPTURES AND FIELD REPORTS. 



Plusia chrysitis. — Mr. Lawrance, in his note [ante, p. 193), men- 

 tions his and friends' experience respecting Plusia chrysitis being 

 scarcer of late years. My experience is quite to the contrary, as the 

 imagines are to be taken freely at bramble bloom in company with 

 Thyatira batis and Habrosyne derasa, at Finchley and Mill Hill ; and 

 since coming here to reside I have taken it at bramble bloom, and also 

 at the blossoms of Delphinium (on four occasions) in my garden. The 

 larvae, too, could be easily found by beating the nettles over news- 

 papers at night, at Finchley, and would no doubt be found, by careful 

 work, in other suburban districts. — V. Eric Shaw; Salisbury Road, 

 Bexley, Kent, July 14th, 1903. 



Plusia chrysitis. — With reference to Mr. A. J. Lawrance's remarks 

 as to this species (ante, p. 193), I may mention that I took one speci- 

 men on the 18th of this month, while dusking on the railway embank- 

 ment at the back of my house. This is the first time I have seen the 

 insect near London during my four years' collecting. — G. B. Browne ; 

 43, Southbrook Road, Lee, S.E., July 21st, 1903. 



Plusia chrysitis. — Referring to the note on Plusia chrysitis in the 

 London district (ante, p. 193), it may be of interest to say that here, 

 at least eighteen miles from London, there is no scarcity of this moth. 

 Last autumn I beat the larvae abundantly, and at present I am finding 

 the imago on the wing. — (Rev.) W. Claxton ; Navestock Vicarage, 

 Romford, July 10th, 1903. 



Dragonflies in Banffshire. — On July 13th last I took the follow- 

 ing dragonflies at Crannoch Loch, near Cullen, situated in an elevated 

 hollow within a mile of the sea : — Libellula quadrimaculata, L. ; Pyr- 

 rhosoma nymphula, Sulz. ; Ischnura elegans, Lind. ; Enallagma cyathi- 

 gerum, Charp. — Henry H. Brown; Cupar-Fife. 



Whitsuntide in the New Forest, 1903. — We devoted our Whit- 

 suntide holiday this year to entomology in the New Forest, and having 

 met with some success, thought that a brief account of our doings 

 might be of interest to some of the many entomologists who visit that 

 famous hunting-ground. We arrived at our diggings (some six miles 

 from Brockenhurst) late Friday night. May 29th, where the inn- 

 keeper had awaiting us a female Smeriyithus ocellatus that he had found, 

 which subsequently deposited a number of ova. There had been a 

 storm in the evening, and much rain fell during the night, but, 

 luckily, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday were fine and hot. 



Several species of Lepidoptera were met with in considerable 

 numbers, viz. : — Gonopteryx rhamni, Argynnis euphrosyne, Nisoniades 

 tages, Panagra petraria, Ematurga atomaria, Bupalus piniaria (males 

 only), and Thera variata ; while the following were seen in lesser 

 numbers : — Pieris brassiccR, P. rapcB, P. 7iapi, Euchlo'e cardamines, 

 Pararge egeria, P. megcera, Ccenonympha pamphilus, Thecla rubi, Polyom- 

 matus phloeas, Lyccena icarus, Syrichthus malvcB, Euchelia jacobcece, Ma- 

 crothylacia rubi (several males seen, but only one captured), Phytometra 

 viridaria (on the heaths), Euclidia mi and E. glyphica (beside the 



