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flying about, and some local boys said, ' There's a Hornet.' In 

 Lancashire they are called 'Headers,' which in the dialect of 

 that part is pronounced ' Yedders.' " On September 20th Mr. 

 Whittaker went to the pond and captured a specimen {.Eschna 

 cyanea) which he sent to me alive. 



Mr. F. W. Campion told me (September 24th) that Mr. Watts 

 had taken P. nymphula var. melanotum this year at Byfleet. 

 This is, I believe, the first record of this form of P. nymphula 

 from Surrey. 



On September 25th Mr. G. Bolam found a male JEschna 

 juncea at rest on heather near the top of Cross Fell, in Cumber- 

 land. This he sent to me. In connection with this insect Mr. 

 Bolam wrote (September 29th) : — " But it occurs all along these 

 hills and also in the Cheviots in Northumberland and Boxburgh- 

 shire, commonly though not plentifully. Here it is now to be 

 met with in twos and threes about most of the burnsides and 

 tarns. It is, perhaps, rather an upland species. On the 23rd 

 I took one at rest, and saw others on the wing in both Cumber- 

 land and Durham across the watershed, between this place and 

 Middleton-in-Teesdale." 



Col. J. W. Yerbury took S. striolatum in Cornwall — at 

 Lelant on August 24th ; and at Downderry on September 15th. 

 He also captured at Lelant a teneral female specimen of 

 P. nymphula on so late a date as August 22nd. Lt.-Col. C. G. 

 Nurse tells me that he took /. elegans, male, at Timworth, May 

 11th, and, female, at West Stow, June 24th ; P. nymphula, male, 

 at Ampton on April 28th; A. puella, female, at Ampton, May 

 17th; and E. cyathigerum, female, at Ampton, April 28th — all in 

 West Suffolk. 



For myself the season of 1912 ended on October 6th, when I 

 saw at the Black Pond, Surrey, S. striolatum, S. scoticum and an 

 JEschna, which appeared to be M. mixta. 



Kingston-on-Thames : April, 1913. 



NEW FOKEST NOTES, 1912. 

 By G. T. Lyle, F.E.S. 



When compared with the preceding year, 1912 does not show 

 to advantage either climatically or entomologically. July and 

 August were wretchedly wet months with us, aud probably 

 this accounted for the comparative scarcity of our commoner 

 butterflies. 



In the previous autumn the larvte of Apatura iris had been 

 much more plentiful than usual, consequently it was not 

 surprising that this fine insect turned up in some numbers in 

 July, but, alas ! in September and October the larvae were not 



