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which mundata has been sent out for years, although Staudinger 

 gives the ground colour of his calceata as pale gray, while mundata 

 is pure white) had been taken at Folkestone, but I cannot get any 

 confirmation of this. It would be very interesting to hear if ab. 

 mundata does occur elsewhere, and if so, in what proportion to the 

 chalk type (argillacearia). — A. J. Wightman ; Ailsa Craig, Lewes. 



Lyc^na arion Pup^. — Mr. Percy Eichards, in a note dated 

 July 24th, mentions that he found three other pupge under one stone, 

 and in exactly the same position as those previously reported (antea, 

 p. 204) ; that is, in little earthen cells. He adds that only one 

 butterfly emerged, and that this was slightly deformed. 



Late Emergence of Agrion puella. — On my return from a 

 week-end last Tuesday, I found that a female Agrion jniella had 

 emerged in the interim. I was away from August 15th to 18th. 

 This date seems to be a very late one for emergence of this 

 dragonfly. — Harold Hodge ; Chapel Place Mansion, 322, Oxford 

 Street, W. 



The Aphis-eating Caddis-fly. — I have waited with consider- 

 able interest, not to say curiosity, for Mr. Arkle to respond to the 

 invitation of Dr. Chapman to tell us the name of this aphis-eating 

 caddis-fly, and to give us a description of its mouth-parts by which 

 it performs this extraordinary feat ; for it would be an extraordinary 

 feat for a caddis-fly, as it is well known that the Trichoptera take no 

 solid food in the adult state, their mandibles being obsolete. In 

 some genera the proboscis is well developed, and may quite likely be 

 used for sucking sweet fluids. The probability is that Mr. Arkle 

 mistook a Neuropteron, or possibly one of the Mecoptera (Panospidse), 

 for a caddis-fly — most probably the former, as it is to this order that 

 the aphis-lion belongs. This aphis-lion is the larva of Ghrysopa ; it 

 destroys large quantities of aphides, and as the mouth-parts of the 

 imago are free, with mandibles well developed, it is quite likely 

 that they may also have a penchant for those enemies of the rose- 

 grower. — -Campbell-Taylor; 7, Wellesley Eoad, Gt. Yarmouth, 

 August 24th, 1908. 



Sparrows as Moth Catchers. — In view of the special interest 

 which attaches to actual records of the observation of attacks on 

 Lepidoptera by birds, I am induced to put together these few notes 

 relating to a period covering some thirty-seven or thirty-eight years. 

 In 1870 or 1871 the leopard moth was extremely common on the 

 tree-trunks in the squares and parks of London. My mother, who 

 was always keenly interested in collecting for me, boxed numerous 

 specimens from Gordon, Euston, and other squares. She reported 

 more than once that she had seen detached wings of the moth lying 

 on the ground at the foot of the trees, but had never been able to 

 ascertain what had attacked the insect. This observation was 

 published by me about the date mentioned, with the conjecture that 

 the enemy would most probably be found to be the sparrow. This 

 has since been confirmed by my cousin, Mr. J. A. Einzi, who informs 

 me that he has repeatedly seen the sparrow at work in Regent's Park, 



