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days rising as high as 56° and 57°, and keeping above 50° throughout 

 the night — the sort of temperature one expects towards the end of 

 ]\/[ay — but on the 6th it became cold again, and to-day there has been 

 the heaviest fall of snow we have had for some years. The moth 

 looks as if it had been out for some days, so it most likely emerged 

 during the very warm weather we had at the beginning of the month. 

 Gervase F. Mathew ; Dovercourt, Essex, February 10th, 1909. 



Bapta bimaculata in Lincolnshire. — I have taken B. himaculata 

 here in 1906, 1907, and 1908. These constitute, I believe, the only 

 records for this pioth for Lincolnshire. — Savignac B. Stedman; 

 Binbrook, Market Easen, Lincoln. 



Dyschorista suspecta in Surrey. — My brother very kindly 

 sugars for me in Surrey, and last July he sent me a series of nearly 

 twenty specimens of Dyschorista suspecta, captured near Effingham. 

 As suspecta is always described as a northern insect, this record may 

 be worth insertion. — Savignac B. Stedman. 



[This species was taken pretty freely in the New Forest, Hamp- 

 shire, in 1896 ; it has also been recorded from other southern 

 counties. — Ed.] 



Notes from Haslemere for 1908. — In continuation of my notes 

 for 1906-7 {vide Entom. vol. xli. p. 157), the following may be of 

 interest : — Limenitis sihylla has been observed in more than one 

 spot about here, and I imagine it is quite firmly established. I had 

 no opportunity of obtaining the larvaB, but hope to do so this year. 

 On June 15th I obtained ova of Ccenonympha p)amphilus in large 

 numbers, and the larvae began to emerge on June 28th. They all fed 

 very slowly, and none pupated in the autumn. I have kept them 

 supplied with grass all the winter, and they appear to have been 

 eating in very small quantities without any break. The largest is now 

 little more than half an inch long. Two female specimens of Callo- 

 phrys riibi deposited about forty ova on laburnum shoots on May 

 29th. The resultant larvae appeared on June 5th, and fed up success- 

 fully on the flowers and later on the leaves of broom. The first one 

 pupated on July 14th. Larvae of Zephyrus qiiercus, beaten on June 

 3rd, appeared to be even more than usually ichneumoned, but I got 

 through some fine imagines on July 5th and following days. After 

 diligent searching in their known haunts I succeeded in finding ova 

 on Nov. 4th. Spring forms of Gyaniris argiokcs began to emerge on 

 April 4th, though the first date on which I saw wild ones was May 

 27th. A brood of larvae, which hatched on June 6th, and which 

 began to pupate on July 11th, produced some imagines on July 30th, 

 but several of the pupae stood over the winter. It was difficult, 

 especially during the later stages, to procure holly blossoms, but the 

 larvce, though preferring the fiowers, very readily ate the young holly 

 leaves. 



Among interesting captures by day may be "mentioned : — Hylo- 

 phila prasinana, H. hicolorana, Lithosia viesomella, Nemeopldla 

 russula, Hepialus himmli, Drepana hinaria, Heliaca tenebrata, Eras- 

 tria fasciana, Epione advenaria, Metrocampa viargaritaria, Eurymene 

 dolabraria, Numeria pulveraria, Bupalus piniaria, Pachycneviia hip- 



