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having the ochreous tint, and he agrees with me that there is no 

 doubt as to its identity. — W. G. Clutten ; 132, Coal Clough Lane, 

 Burnley. 



Epione apiciaria in October. — I think the following dates 

 for this species are unusual. I took one on September 13th, 1907, 

 another on October 4th, 1908, and two in 1909 on September 18th 

 and 19th. These are the only specimens of E. apiciaria that I have 

 obtained here, although I collect all through the summer over the 

 same ground. — F. W. J. Jackson ; Woodcote End House, Epsom. 



Early Occurrence of Agrotis puta. — In 1905 I obtained a 

 female specimen on May 29th, in 1907 a female was found on 

 May 16th, and this year— 1909— a male on May 18th. These 

 dates would seem to point to the species being either occasionally 

 or perhaps regularly double-brooded in this locality. — F. W. J. 

 Jackson. 



A Eare Beetle. — I beg to record the capture of a fine male 

 specimen of Acanthocinns cedilis, Linn., in Truro, which was taken 

 about a quarter of a mile from a riverside timber-yard, to which a 

 large quantity of foreign timber is imported, and the probability 

 of its having been imported therewith is confirmed in Fowler's 

 ' Coleoptera of the British Islands." The date of capture was 

 September 28th, 1909. — W. A. Kollason ; " Lamorna," Truro, 

 Cornwall, January 19th, 1910. 



VANESSID.E IN CORNWALL. — With reference to recent reports in 

 the ' Entomologist ' as to scarcity and otherwise of this family, I 

 have found atalanta, io, and urticcB to have been unusually plentiful 

 in the Truro and Falmouth districts, but cardiii scarcer than usual. — 

 W. A. EoLLAsoN ; " Lamorna, Truro," Cornwall. 



GoNEPTERYX RHAMNi IN EARLY JANUARY. — It may be of interest 

 to state that about mid-day on January 10th I saw a male specimen 

 of Go7iepteryx rhamni on the wing in some meadows near Godalming, 

 Surrey. The butterfly, which was evidently by no means a fresh 

 specimen, was flying rapidly, and the sun was shining almost for the 

 first time since the beginning of the new year. — Miss M. E. Fountaine. 



Mr. J. Challenor-Smith writes me that about 12.30 on January 

 2nd, a bright sunny day, he noticed a specimen of this butterfly on 

 the wing on Silchester Common, Hants. — H. Eowland-Brown. 



Ichneumonid^ in London District.— I am able to supplement 

 the list of Ichneumonidse met with in this locality — Heme Hill — 

 given in the January number of this Journal, with ten species, kindly 

 identified since its publication by Mr. Claude Morley, F.Z.S. Two 

 of these, Lissonota deversor, Gr., and Bassns graculus, Panz., of which 

 a male of the former and a female of the latter were taken, appear 

 to have been so far of uncommon occurrence in this country. The 

 remaining eight are Lissonota variabilis, Hlg., Phygadeuon fumator, 

 Grav., Perithous varius, Grav., Pimpla brevicornis, Gr., Bassus 

 biguttatiis, Prometheoiis sulcator, Exolytus Icsvigatus, Grav., Micro- 

 cryptus sperator, Miill. Also, I may mention that the var. iridipennis 

 was found with the normal form of Platylabus pedatorius, Fab. — 

 EuPERT Stenton ; January 6th, 1910. 



