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coinbe Bassett, September 8th ; near Newland's Corner, Septem- 

 ber 11th ; Beachy Head, September 20th ; and Kew Gardens, 

 September 22nd. Tettix bipunctatus was found near the Itchin 

 at Eastleigh on August 14th, and was received from the Royal 

 Horticultural Society's Gardens at Wisley. 



To turn now to the Locustids. Leptophyes punctatissima and 

 Meconema varium were received from Han well (W. M. Webb), 

 having been taken on September 4th, and the latter was also 

 received from the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens at 

 Wisley. M. varium came to sugar in the New Forest on August 

 23rd and 27th, and in Kew Gardens on September 22nd. Mr. H. 

 M. Edelsten sent me specimens of the local Xiphidium dorsale, 

 which he found very common on reeds at night in the Norfolk 

 Broads on July 28th and 29th. A specimen of Thamnotrizon 

 cinereus came to sugar in the New Forest on August 27th. The 

 last grasshoppers seen by me were a female Platycleis brachyptera, 

 near Osshott, Surrey, on October 6th, and another female of 

 the same species on Esher Common, in the same district, on 

 October 14th. 



Kingston-on-Thames: February, 1907. 



SCOTCH LEPIDOPTERA IN 1906. 



By A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S. 



During the greater part of the past season, Mr. L. G.Esson 

 was collecting for me in Perthshire, Aberdeenshire, or Elgin, and 

 a summary of the results achieved may be worth putting on 

 record. Work began on the 20th of March, when Mr. Esson, 

 who had reached Struan the previous night, arrived at Rannoch 

 to search for Petasia nubeculosa. Six hours' work in the far- 

 famed Black Wood yielded only half a dozen specimens of 

 Semioscopus avellanella, an insect which was subsequently taken 

 in large numbers. The next day's exertions, however, were 

 attended by better luck, for one Asphalia flavicomis and two 

 " sprawlers" — one of each sex — rewarded his careful search of 

 the birch-trunks. The nubeculosa were freshly emerged speci- 

 mens, but unfortunately the male bled rather badly on its 

 journey to England, which slightly spoiled it for cabinet pur- 

 poses. On the 22nd another was taken, and between that elate 

 and the end of the month seven others were secured. Only 

 twice were two specimens found on the same day. Two small 

 batches of eggs were obtained, numbering twelve and thirteen 

 respectively, but, as one of my boxes got smashed in the post, 

 about half of them were lost. During my absence from home 



