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August. These larvas occurred on blackthorn in a very old hedge in 

 Huntingdonshire, about two miles from the locality of the 1904 

 specimen. The country round is typical of the greater portion of 

 the county, and has little in common with fenland. Species found 

 there are Zygana filipendulcz, Procris statices, Cymatophora octo- 

 gesima, Xylophasia suhlustris, Taniocampa opima, T. populeti, and 

 once a single specimen of Dicycla oo. 



The following year, 1906, early in July, I also met with strigosa, 

 but in a fresh locality, some four miles to the north-east of Chatteris, 

 and therefore well in the county of Cambridge. This specimen was 

 on a sugared bramble Hower, and the circumstances of the capture 

 are firmly fixed in my memory as the insect fell from the flower into 

 the middle of the bramble clump, which had to be cut away j)iece- 

 meal before the moth was found under a dead leaf at the bottom. 

 In 1907 the same locality produced a further specimen, a female 

 from which I tried in vain to obtain eggs. The locality of these last 

 two captures differs from those previously mentioned in being of a 

 distinctly "fenny" nature, for in it occur Leucania obsoleta, L. 

 straminea, Senta ulvce, and Ccenobia rufa. Tlaere are, however, 

 numerous old hawthorn bushes which doubtless form the food- 

 plant of the Acronycta. Since 1907, owing to absence abroad and 

 for other reasons, I have had no opportunities of observing strigosa, 

 but I have little doubt that a systematic search for either the imago 

 or larva would be successful. From the comparatively large area over 

 which my captures were made, and from the fact that I never 

 specially sought the insect, I am inclined to think that it is widely 

 distributed and not very scarce in this section of the county. It 

 appears, however, to be a survivor of an ancient fauna inhabiting the 

 islands in fenland and its borders, rather than a native of the true 

 marshes. Among the latter Wicken Fen must be included, and there 

 is, therefore, no reason to fear that the position of the species in this 

 country will be prejudiced in any way by the clearing of small patches 

 of scrub within the boundaries of the fen itself. — J. C. F. Fryer, 

 M.A., F.E.S. 



FoRFicuLA GiGANTEA. — While staying at Southbourne, near 

 Bournemouth, recently, I was fortunate enough to find a female 

 Forficula gigantca under stones at the foot of the cliffs. Although 

 I spent the afternoon searching, this was the only specimen seen. — 

 E. D. Good; 48, High West Street, Dorchester, Dorset, October 8th, 

 1914. 



Nemeobius lucina emerging in October. — A female of this 

 species emerged to-day bred from ova collected at Oxford at the end 

 of May. There has been no artificial heat in the room where the 

 pupge were kept. I see it is stated in ' Butterflies of the British 

 Isles ' that this butterfly occasionally emerges in August and I have 

 looked at my breeding-cage and cannot find any others. It was 

 lucky that I was at home on leave from my camp. — F. W. J. Jack- 

 son ; Woodcote End House, Epson, October 18th, 1914. 



Colias edusa in Dorsetshire. — During September I twice 

 noticed C. edusa flying in the neighbourhood of this town. — E. D. 

 Good ; 48, High West Street, Dorchester. 



