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Orthosia rufina flying by Day. — On Sept. 18th last, while searching 

 for Celana haworthii near Sheffield, I took three Orthosia rufina — one at 

 4.5, one at 4.20, and one at 5.30 — and also saw another, which I was 

 unable to catch. They were flying wildly over the heather, apparently 

 never settling. I certainly did not disturb them. The weather was 

 sunny, but rather windy. Has this habit been noticed before? — E. A. 

 Cockayne ; 6, Tapton House Road, Sheffield, September 23rd, 1901. 



Nemeophila (Cheloniai plantaginis in Autumn. — I have had several 

 imagines of this species emerge during the past autumn. Is not this 

 unusvial ? — G. E. J. Crallan ; Bodorgan Manor, Bournemouth. 



[Although we are not aware of any recent records of the fact, we 

 believe that an autumn emergence of this species is not altogether 

 unusual. — Ed.j 



iEscHNA cYANEA, &c., IN YORKSHIRE. — I must take cxccption to my 

 friend Mr, W. J. Lucas's statement {ante, p. 290) that jE. juncea is 

 more of a northern insect than is .E. eyanea. In my own experience 

 in Yorkshire quite the reverse is the case. .E. eyanea occurs all over 

 the county, and in the proportion, I should say, of a least twenty to 

 one as compared with .E. juncea. Libellula depressa occurs in York- 

 shire — at Scarborough, York, and other places. This year L. quadri- 

 maculata occurred in plenty at Halifax. — Geo. T. Porritt ; Crosland 

 Hall, near Huddersfield, October 11th, 1901. 



The Lepidopterous Fauna of Hampshire. — Mr. Moberly has already 

 pointed out {ante, p. 18) that the list published in the ' Victorian 

 History: Hampshire,' vol. i. (1900) is "not quite exhaustive." I 

 should like to make a few further additions. Kupithecia succenturiata 

 and E. subfulvata are not infrequent at Sandown, and probably else- 

 where in the Isle of Wight and on the mainland ; and I have this year 

 taken larvas of E. plmnbeolata, also at Sandown. Melanippe unangulata 

 is there common, and I have twice taken Tapinostola heUmanni in 

 localities some few miles apart, one on each side of the town ; I have 

 not yet discovered its headquarters, but it does not seem possible that 

 the specimens were immigrants or accidentally introduced. Mamestra 

 abjecta occurs both at Sandown and Freshwater. The omission of 

 Noctua fiammatra and of HeliotJiis anniyera is perhaps intentional, for 

 it is well known that they have both occurred in the Isle of Wight. 

 Dyschorista suspecta has once been taken (by my friend Mr. H. H. May), 

 and I am under the impression I have heard of its common occurrence 

 in the New Forest. There was a record of Micra ostrina for the 

 Culver Downs, Isle of Wight, in an early volume of the ' Entomologist,' 

 but I cannot at the moment lay my hand upon it, and cannot vouch 

 for its authenticity. Hypenodes albistriyalis is, I believe, common in the 

 New Forest, where I took it not infrequently in lb94 ; I have also taken 

 it in Parkhurst Forest, Isle of Wight. Orobena strauientalis, Spilodes 

 palealis, Scuparia lineolea, and Homceosoma binarella are all Sandown 

 species, and the omission of Scoparia mercurella from the list must 

 surely be an oversight. I have done so little systematic work amongst 

 the smaller things that I refrain from carrying my list of additions 

 further. I should like to add that I am collecting materials for working 

 out in some detail the lepidopterous fauna of the Isle of Wight, and 



