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worn, with those in my cabinet, that they are undoubtedly H. peltigem. 

 W. S. Sheldon; Youlgreave, South Croydon. 



Leucania unipuncta in Hampshire. — On September 12th last I took 

 a specimen of L. unipuncta, Hw. (extranea, Gn.) in good condition, at 

 sugar, near the village of Burley, in the New Forest. — A. R. Kidner ; 

 139, Rosendale Road, West Dulwich, S.E., December 17th, 1906. 



T^eniocampa stabilis in November. — While working ivy on Novem- 

 ber 21st last, I took a male specimen of the above-named moth. — 

 G. B. Coney; The Hall, Batcombe, Somerset. 



Occurrence of Spilosoma mendica. in November. — I took a good 

 specimen of S. mendica on November 6th last. — H. J. Baker ; Winter- 

 bonrne, Wain-a-long Road, Salisbury. 



Retarded Emergence of Demas coryli. — On November 17th last 

 a fine male D. coryli emerged from the pupa : is not this a very unusual 

 occurrence ? I may mention this was not an isolated pupa, but was 

 one of a large brood from which the bulk of the imagines emerged 

 during the first week in July. — J. B. Morris ; 14, Ranelagh Avenue, 

 Barnes, November 25th, 1906. 



Dasychira pudibunda emerging in Autumn. — Out of a large batch 

 of ova laid on June 2nd last, by a female of D. pudibunda, L., taken 

 in the New Forest, I had about twenty. Twelve of the larvae were 

 allowed to feed up, and pupated between August 8th and 26th. The 

 pupae were placed in an unwarmed conservatory. A female moth 

 emerged on September 9th ; five males and three females between 

 October 1st and 12th ; a male on November 3rd ; and another on the 

 27th. The last pupa is still alive. Pupte of several other species are 

 being kept in the same boxes ; but none have shown any signs of de- 

 parting from their normal season of emergence. Several moths, how- 

 ever, have been reared by friends from other ova laid by the same 

 female, which were not treated exceptionally in any way. — A. R. 

 Kidner; 139, Rosendale Road, West Dulwich. 



Plusia. moneta in Cheshire. — In the record, Entom. xxxix. p. 291, 

 after " captured in his house," add " at Sale, Cheshire." 



Migrants. — The year 1906 will be famous for the clouds of ants 

 which suddenly appeared in this corner of Kent. Apparently they 

 stretched or travelled from Deal to Margate, about a dozen miles as 

 the crow flies. Hitherto I was rather incredulous about such visita- 

 tions, and it is still a mystery to me how these little flies — as ordinary 

 people call them, and which were found to be winged ants — can be 

 carried miles away from their breeding-place and dumped down in- 

 discrimately. Amongst migratory Lepidoptera this season has pro- 

 duced little that is noteworthy. Pyrameis cardui has been in evidence 

 sparingly, both worn specimens in early summer, and brightly coloured 

 ones in September ; but apparently the Eastbourne, &c, migration did 

 not reach us. Vanessa io was very scarce ; one specimen occurred in- 

 doors, in Margate, the first seen for several years ; V. polychloros, also 

 indoors ; this is the first example I have seen in Margate in twenty- 

 five years. Colias hyale, one specimen seen and missed, but afterwards 



