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D. ruhiginea at rest on a twig of nut, some distance away from the 

 nearest sallow. It laid over two hundred eggs, and later I had nearly 

 one hundred larvae feeding. — E. Piazza ; 11, St. Phihp's Koad, 

 Surbiton. 



Blatella germanica (Orthopteea). — A specimen was found in 

 Walker's Brewery, Warrington, on September 18th, 1911. It is now 

 in the Warrington Municipal Museum. — W. J. Lucas ; 28, Knight's 

 Park, Kingston-on-Thames. 



Notes on Lepidopteea from the Isle of Wight. — Vanessa io, 

 worn ; Pararge mcgcera, common ; V. urticce, a few specimens ; Plusia 

 gavima, a few in good condition ; larvae of Euproctis chrysorrhoea, 

 very abundant on the cliti's, where it was rare last year ; whilst 

 Abraxas grossulariata, larvte of which swarmed last year, is almost 

 non-existent this year. — Stanley A. Blenkarn, F.E.S ; " Teneriffe," 

 Sandown, May 14th, 1912. 



West Surrey Lepidoptera. — Mr. H. 0. Holford's record in the 

 last number of the ' Entomologist ' {ante, p. 157) enables me to supply 

 some additional information concerning the Lepidoptera of West 

 Surrey. In the early seventies my friend Mr. John Evershed, Junr., 

 now of the Kodiakanal Observatory in India, frequently collected 

 with me in the neighbourhood of Wonersh, near Shalford, w^iere his 

 family then resided. One season (the exact year has unfortunately 

 escaped my memory), we took at sugar quite a large number of 

 Calymnia pyralina, my series being still in my collection, as I have 

 never taken the species, since. We were neither of us very greedy 

 for numbers of specimens, and we only took a small portion of the 

 number seen on the sugar patches. That same year Xylophasia 

 scolojMcina was quite abundant at sugar in the same district. At 

 sallow, near Bramley, in the spring of that year, among the usual 

 species, one specimen of T. leucographa was taken, this being, so far 

 as I have been enabled to ascertain, the first Surrey record for this 

 species. — E. Meldola ; 6, Brunswick Square, W.C., May 3rd, 1912. 



Laphygma exigua in South Wales. — With my friend Mr. G. D. 

 Hancock I spent last week in South Wales, in a vain search for 

 larvae of X. conformis. We were lucky enough, however, to find a 

 good locality for L. exigua, of which we took eleven specimens in 

 two nights, some on the wing, others at sugar. I see that Barrett 

 states that the imago hybernates, and I have always understood that 

 the specimens taken in the spring in this country are supposed to be 

 immigrants. Judging, however, from the condition of those which 

 we secured, I feel sure they were recently emerged and had bred 

 where we found them. I always believed, too, that L. exigua liked a 

 strong wind, and did not come to sugar till 11 p.m. or later. The 

 two nights on which we took it were, however, warm and still. I 

 took one insect on the wing at 8.30; the flight seemed to be over by 

 9 o'clock, and we were never out after 10 p.m. — Percy C. Eeid ; 

 Peering Bury, Kelvedon, May 16th, 1912. 



Correction. — In the ' Entomologist,' vol. xHv. p. 285 (1911), 

 Mr. E. R. Speyer recorded the dimensions, as ascertained by myself. 



