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"that the specimens agree with the insect known on the Continent as 

 N. neurica, Hb., a species which is quite distinct from A'', dissoluta 

 and its var. arimdineta. N. neurica, Hb., occurs in parts of Germany, 

 &c., but this is apparently the first occurrence of this insect in 

 Britain." — E. P. Sharp & A. J. Wightman ; Lewes. 



Late Emergence of ^Eschna cyanea. — I have to record another 

 late emergence of a dragonfly. An ^schna cyanea emerged early in 

 the morning of September 7th. Of many bred this summer the 

 earliest came out on June 13th ; there was then an interval of a fort- 

 night. After that they appeared in rapid succession until al)out the 

 end of the first week in August. No more came out after then till 

 that late lingerer on September 7th, born entirely out of due season. 

 Harold Hodge ; 322, Oxford Street, W., October, 1908. 



Note on Abraxas sylvata, ab. — -I was struck with the general 

 resemblance of the aberration of A. sylvata (ulmata) figured in the 

 last number of the ' Entomologist,' its blurring and suffusion, to the 

 appearance presented by some geometrid moths whose pupae have 

 been exposed to abnormally low temperatures. This led me to find 

 what temperature the specimen taken hj Mr. Scollick, as you inform 

 me, on the 22nd June, 1907, must have been subjected to while in the 

 latter part of its pupal stage. I have access to the Brighton official 

 temperatures and find that the June of 1907 was the coldest certainly 

 for thirteen years. May was also considerably below the average, 

 especially the last half of it. In Buckinghamshire, where the speci- 

 men figured w^as taken, the temperature was probably lower, that 

 being an inland county. Different species vary greatly in their sensi- 

 tiveness, so far as it is exemplified by their facies, to pupal cold; I do 

 not know how sylvata ranks in this respect, and a species which, like 

 this, has a winter pupa, is usually less sensitive than one which has 

 come from a summer pupa, so that I by no means put forward the 

 theory that the cold May and June of 1907 were the cause of the 

 abnormal appearance figured — -only there seems a possibility of it. 

 F. Merrifield ; 14, Clifton Terrace, Brighton. 



EupiTHECiA Larvae on Pastinaca : a Correction. — Mr. Percy 

 C. Keid informs me that the larvae which he found on Pastinaca 

 sativa, and took to be those of Eapithecia pivipinellata (Ent. Rec. xx. 

 13 ; Entom. xli. 54) proved to be E. scabiosata, well known to be a 

 pretty general feeder, though I do not at the moment remember that 

 parsnip has hitherto been recorded as one of its food-plants. — Louis 

 B. Prout ; 246, Richmond Road, N.E., October 26th, 1908. 



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CoLiAs EDUSA IN CORNWALL. — I have not seen so many Colias 

 eclusa for very many years as I saw during the first ten or twelve days 

 of this month flying over the to wans, both on the Lelant and the 

 Hayle side of the estuary of the Hayle river. I was in this part, on 

 and off, from September 8th until October 12th, but I did not see a 

 single G. eclusa until October. Generally, I noticed more insects, in* 



