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roll. Touching on the subject of the property of the Club in the 

 shape of its collections of insects, he stated that he had lately seen 

 these, and noted that the specimens therein were in good order, and 

 well cared for by Mr. Lowne, the curator, in whose possession they 

 still remained. The delightful violin solos by Mr. Jacoby greatly 

 augmented the pleasure of the evening. 



Laphygma exigua. — On August 25th last I took a specimen of this 

 insect on a gas-lamp near Poole, Dorset, and two days later, when out 

 with Mr. W. G. Hooker, of Bournemouth, we captured a second, on a 

 lamp at the same place. As the first specimen was a female I kept it 

 alive, and on the night of August 26th it laid about a hundred and 

 twenty-five ova in a chip-box. I kept about seventy-five of these, and 

 they emerged on August 31st, The young larvae fed up easily on dock, 

 and commenced to pupate at the end of September, the perfect insects 

 emerging at the end of October and beginning of November, with the 

 aid of a little artificial heat. I bred forty-four perfect specimens, but 

 the percentage bred would no doubt have been larger but for the fact 

 that I had to disturb the larvas just as they were spinning up, so that 

 several died in pupating. The moths are quite handsome little insects, 

 the markings on the fore wings being very rich, and they vary con- 

 siderably in the intensity of the markings, one or two of the speci- 

 mens being very dark indeed. — William J. Ogden ; 1, West Bank, 

 Stamford Hill, N., London, February 18th, 1907. 



The first volume of Mr. J. W. Tutt's ' Natural History of the 

 British Butterflies ' is announced for immediate publication by Mr. 

 Elliot Stock. It is intended as a text-book for students and collec- 

 tors, and deals with the world-wide variation and geographical distri- 

 bution of butterflies. It will be very fully illustrated by photographs 

 from nature. 



CAPTUKES AND FIELD EEPORTS. 



Daphnis (Chosrocampa) nerii at Lancaster. — I beg to report the 

 capture, at Lancaster, of the oleander hawk-moth (C. nerii) on Septem- 

 ber 18th, by one of Lord Ashton's workmen. It was taken at rest 

 on one of the buildings inside the works, and the man who caught it 

 kept it in a box for two days, and then a friend of mine, Mr. James 

 Stalker, got the moth and brought it to me to set. It was in very fair 

 condition considering its captivity. Can you give me any data when 

 C. nerii was last caught in England? — O. Ralph; 4, Albert Boad, 

 Skerton, Lancaster. 



[There are seven records in the ' Entomologist ' of the capture of 

 C. nerii in Britain during the past ten years. The dates are : — 1896 : 

 one specimen at Sowliug, Kent, captured in a house, end of July. 

 1900 : one in a dining-room at Yalding, Kent, September 18th ; and 

 one in Teignmouth, October 23rd. 1901 : one at Barrhead, Scotland, 

 end of September (?1900), on a sheaf of corn. 1903: one at rest on a 

 yew-hedge in a garden outside Atherstone, Warwickshire, October 9th. 

 At a meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, 

 held on November 16th, 1903, a specimen found on board a steam- 



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