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to have eluded entomological eyes for any length of time previously. 

 It might be of interest to mention that I found larvte, pupae, and 

 imagines (two males) on the same day. — A. Thurnall; Wanstead, 

 Essex, October 1st, 1912. 



Eetinia (Ehyacionia) purdeyi IN Norfolk. — The Eev. W. G. 

 Whittingham has very kindly given me two specimens of the Betinia 

 mentioned in his article (antea, p. 295). These I find are i-eferable 

 to B. purdeyi, Durrant, a species quite recently described from 

 specimens captured by Mr. W. Purdey at Folkestone, in Kent, about 

 the third week in July, 1911. The Norfolk specimens were netted, 

 as they flew about pine-trees, in the afternoon of August 20th last. — 

 Eichard South ; 96, Drakefield Eoad, Upper Tooting, S.W. 



Arctic Dragonplies. — Mr. W. G. Sheldon was good enough to 

 give me three dragonflies which he took this summer beyond the 

 North Cape — one male ^schna carulea (= borealis) and two male 

 Soviatochlora alpestris. The former occurs, not commonly, in the 

 Highlands of Scotland ; the latter is not British, but is found in 

 Switzerland. All the specimens Mr. Sheldon saw were at about 

 sea-level in that latitude. Somatochlora alpestris was generally 

 distributed in the Porsanger Fjord wherever there were pools of 

 water. The first specimen was taken at Kolvik on June 27th, and 

 several others of this species were seen there during the ensuing 

 week. At Laxelv, at the southern extremity of this fjord, it was 

 quite common, probably because there were here many pieces of 

 stagnant water. Mr. Sheldon saw examples also at Kistrand on the 

 west and at Borselv on the east side of the fjord. JE. ccerulea he 

 saw only at Laxelv — perhaps half a dozen examples in all. They 

 were very wary, and the specimen he gave me was the only one he 

 got a chance at ; it was taken on July 13th. He did not see any 

 Odonata at Bossekop, in the Alten Fjord, where he stayed from 

 June 12th to June 28th, nor at Abisko, in Swedish Lapland, at 

 which place he spent from June 16th to July 18th, 1911, although he 

 kept a sharp look-out for them at both these places. — W. J. Lucas ; 

 Kingston-on-Thames. 



T^NIORHYNCHUS RICHIARDII, Fic, IN MIDDLESEX AND HAMP- 

 SHIRE. — Two new records can now be added to the short list cited 

 by Mr. F. W. Edwards for this uncommon British mosquito {antea, 

 p. 261). That gentleman has been good enough to identify two 

 females collected by myself at Ealing on July 12th and 26th, 1912, 

 respectively. He has also shown me a female which he took at 

 Hook, Hants, on the 17th of the same month, and has kindly per- 

 mitted me to publish his record with my own. — Herbert Campion ; 

 58, Eanelagh Eoad, Ealing, September 25th, 1912. 



Further Eecords of Colias edusa in England. — On August 

 28th, at Eeading, I captured one male G. edusa, and next day saw a 

 female but failed to secure it. — Douglas H. Butler ; 293, Oxford 

 Eoad, Eeading. 



Colias edusa appeared in limited numbers in the clover fields 

 around Chichester on sunny days during July and August. The first 

 specimen, a female, was taken by Mr. Gilbert Humphry on July 24th. 

 — Joseph Anderson ; Aire Villa, Chichester, 



