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Plusia moneta at Bromley, Kent. — This species is becoming fairly 

 common here. I have taken four this year, in my garden, and 

 twenty-seven larvas; of the latter, five spun up, and the moths emerged 

 the middle of August ; the rest are evidently remaining over till next 

 year, so I have replaced them on the monkshood plants out of doors. 

 Last season I caught five, and took fifteen larvfe towards the end of 

 July, nine of which came out early in August. Has anyone noticed 

 how much more plentiful the larvae of this species are from the middle 

 to end of July, than in May and early in June ? The larva of the 

 second brood spins the flower together, and is very easily discovered. 

 L. F. Hill ; 2, Freelands Eoad, Bromley, Kent. 



Plusia beactea in Scotland. — I have much pleasure in recording 

 the capture of P. bractea by Mr. A. E. Officer, at Conon Bridge, Ding- 

 wall, N.B., on August 19th. The insect came to an open window 

 about 10.30 p.m. ; it is rather rubbed on the thorax, but otherwise is a 

 very fine specimen indeed. — Wm. A. Carter ; Burr Villas, Bexley 

 Heath, Kent, Sept. 9th, 1901. 



Odonata at Hythe, Kent. — During a stay at Hythe, Kent (August 

 22nd to Sept. 5th), the following dragonflies were seen or taken : — 

 Sympetrum striolatum, fairly common. S. sanguinenm, one male, in 

 bad condition, by the Military Canal. hcJmiira cleffana, fairly common. 

 Miichna mixta, one or more examples seen every day from Aug. 29th 

 to Sept. 4th. I succeeded in obtaining two males and two females, 

 ■whilst Mr. S. W. Kemp also took two males. — F. M. B. Carr ; 46, 

 Handen Pioad, Lee, S.E. 



Deiopeia pulchella in Surrey. — Since writing you on July 7th 

 [ante, p. 230), I have had the good fortune to take two further speci- 

 mens of D. pulchella, in the same locality as my first capture. I 

 should have taken a fourth example on July 15th, but it unfortunately 

 escaped, owing to my inability to follow it, in consequence of the 

 marshy nature of the ground. An additional point of interest is, that 

 the larval food of this species, the forget-me-not {Mijosotis palustris) 

 occurs in the locality in abundance, conclusively proving that the 

 presence there of this beautiful insect is not the result of accident or 

 chance, but that it actually breeds there. — Ernest Warne ; 4, Spanish 

 Eoad, East Hill, Wandsworth, S.W., Aug. 13th, 1901. 



[In reply to our request for further particulars, Mr. Warne writes, 

 in a letter, dated August 30tli] — The precise locality where I was for- 

 tunate enough to take D. pulchella is near Earlsfield, on some waste 

 ground belonging to some factories on the banks of the Wan die. One 

 portion is very marshy, and the other a grassy meadow. A wide and 

 deep ditch from the Wandle divides the two. The other side of the 

 river is rough ground, covered with short grass and weeds. The 

 specimens are smaller than those I have seen in the museums, beiuo- 

 not much larger than, say, Lithosia helveula. I took some examples of 

 E. chlorana there, although I saw no osiers about. Probably they fed 

 on the willows which line the bank of the river. — Ernest Warne. 



BoLETOBiA FULiGiNARiA AT Walthamstow. — Oil July 29th last I was 

 fortunate enough to take a specimen of B. fuln/inaria in my garden at 



