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Drymonia (Notodonta) chaonia, Spilosoma menthastri, S. lubricipeda, 

 Pygara bucephala, Dicranura vinula, and other common species. — 

 Joseph Anderson ; Chichester. 



Colias edusa. — This species having been unusually scarce this 

 season, I was much surprised to find a female at rest on a thistle about 

 10 p.m. on the 5th inst. — Edward Goodwin ; Canon Court, Watering- 

 bury. 



Dragonflies near Huntingdon. — During recent visits to Hartford, 

 near Huntingdon, I have collected from the Kiver Ouse at that place 

 examples of the following species of Agrionidaa : — In 1904 (June 17th), 

 Galopteryx splendens (one male) ; in 1906 (June 18th to 30th), C. splen- 

 dens (one male), Pyrrhosoma nymphula, Ischnura elegans, and Ayr ion 

 puella ; and in 1907 (June 24th to July 6th), C. splendens (males and 

 females), Platycnemis pennipes (one very immature male, with reduced 

 spots), Erythromma naias (one very immature male), I. elegans (includ- 

 ing a female of var. infuscans), A. pulchellum (one male), and A. puella 

 (including a male having the U-shaped spot joined to the circlet behind). 

 — F. W. Campion ; 33, Maude Terrace, Walthamstow, Essex. 



Captures of Lepidoptera in Cambridgeshire, &c. — I should like to 

 record a few of my recent captures, some of which are as follows : — 

 Aporophyla nigra, Hw. Cambridge, at light, September 25th, 1907. 

 I doubt if this has been taken here before. — Orthopia ocellaris, Bork. A 

 specimen on a Cambridge lamp, September 16th, 1907. — O. gilvago, 

 Esp. Very common here this year. I have seen as many as seventy 

 in one night, and ten on one lamp. — Heliothis dipsacea, L. Cambridge, 

 at light, July, 1907 ; Wicken Fen, at light, August 9th, 1907.— Hadena 

 ophiogramma, Esp. One at Shelford, Cambridgeshire, June 20th, 1906. 

 — Deilephila livornica (lineata), F. One at Shelford, August 3rd, 1905, 

 hovering over lavender. — Stauropits fagi, L. An imago, Gog Magog 

 Hills, at rest on palings, July 5th, 1907. — Homceosovia sinuella, F. This 

 species seems common in wild places on chalky soil all over the district. 

 Is it still reckoned a coast species ? — Evergestis extimalis, Sc. Two at 

 light, Cambridge, July, 1907. — Pammene ochsenheimeriana, Z. Devil's 

 Ditch (Newmarket), May, 1905 ; Cambridge, June, 1906. — Parasia 

 neuropterella, Z. Barton Hills (Bedfordshire), August 22nd, 1907. — 

 Aristotelia lucidella, Stph. Swarmed in one corner of the lake in 

 Epping Forest, August 2nd, 1907. — Mompha stephensi, Stt. Bichmond 

 Park, September 5th, 1907. — Nepticula fulgens, Stt. Shelford, Cam- 

 bridgeshire, 1907. (Common, together with N. tityrella (?).) — Och&en- 

 heimeria vacalella, F. R. Common on oak-trunks (in crevices of the 

 bark), September 5th, 1907. Most of them were in bad condition, 

 many dead and dry. — Mr. A. G. Wilmott, of St. John's College, Cam- 

 bridge, asks me to mention the following : — Orthosia xerampelina, Hb. 

 Ten at light, Cambridge, September, 1907. — Senta maritima, Tausch. 

 One at light, Cambridge, August, 1907. — Loxostege palealis, Schiff. 

 One at light, Cambridge, August, 1907. — Chrysoclista linneella, CI. 

 Locally common at Cambridge this year. — Not being acquainted with 

 a more up-to-date work, I have used the nomenclature of Meyrick's 

 'Handbook.' — F. W. Edwards; Penwith, Hills Road, Cambridge, 

 October 6th, 1907. 



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