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any other orders, will send me their lists, with a view to assist in a 

 compilation of records for Middlesex (only), particularly in the south- 

 western districts of the county. — H. Rowland-Brown ; Oxhey Grove, 

 Harrow Weald, Middlesex. 



New Work on British Diptera. — The first volume of ' British 

 Flies,' by G. H. Verrall, President of the Entomological Society of 

 London, was issued on January 1st of the present year. The work 

 when completed will extend to some fourteen volumes. The book now 

 before us is vol. viii., and treats of the Platypezidag, Pipunculidfe, and 

 SyrphidaB. A more extended notice will be given in the next number 

 of the ' Entomologist.' 



List of British Spiders. — The Rev. H. Pickard-Cambridge, author 

 of the ' Spiders of Dorset,' has recently published a ' List of British 

 and Irish Spiders.' We have much pleasure in introducing this useful 

 brochure to the notice of all who are interested in British Araneidea. 



Orthoptera. — Redtenbacher has published a monograph of the 

 Orthoptera of Austria- Hungary and Germany, with general notes on 

 the structure and development ; collection and preparation of speci- 

 mens, literature, analytical tables, and descriptions, &c., of the species. 

 ('Die Dermaptereu und Orthopteren von Oesterreich-Ungarn und 

 Deutschland.' Vienna, 1900. 148 pp. and one Plate.) A detailed 

 notice will appear later. — G. W. K. 



Revised List of Cheshire Lepidoptera. — The President of the 

 Chester Society of Natural Science has appointed a small committee, 

 consisting of Mr. J. Arkle, Dr. Herbert Dobie, Mr. R. Newstead, and 

 myself, to revise and extend Mr. A. 0. Walker's List of the Macro- 

 lepidoptera of the district, published in 1885. The district will now 

 comprise Cheshire, Flintshire, Derbyshire, Carnarvonshire, and Angle- 

 sea. I should be much obliged to any one interested in the entomology 

 of these counties, especially the Welsh ones, if they will send me 

 records or notes ; and I will supply lists for marking to those who may 

 apply to me for the same. — Geo. 0. Day ; Knutsford, Cheshire, January 

 22nd, 1901. 



CAPTURES AND FIELD REPORTS. 



Achkrontia atropos in Suffolk. — It may be of interest to record the 

 capture of twenty-six larvae of A. atropos at Stowmarket, Suffolk, during 

 July and early part of August last, by my friend Herbert Graves of that 

 town. They were found chiefly on the tea-vine. They pupated in flower- 

 pots, which he placed on the top of a steam-boiler, and on Sept. !28th, 190U, 

 the first imago emerged ; they continued coming out till the end of Octo- 

 ber, viz. fifteen perfect images, eight cripples ; there were also two dead 

 pupse, and one pupa is lying over. My fiieud sent me on six perfect insects, 

 one fine female measuring 5^ inches across the wings; the others are also 

 very fine. — tL W. Baker; 20, Alsen Road, Holloway, London, N. 



AcHERONTiA ATRopus IN N. Staffordshirk. — A. atropos has been 

 abundant in the larval and pupal stages in the Market Drayton district this 

 autumn. About twenty larvse were brought to me, and nearly two hundred 

 pupse, by men digging potatoes. One hundred and seven were found and 



