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HY!WENOPTERA. 

 Bedeguar Galls at Caythorpe, Div. 13, S. Lines. This 

 t^all is frequent on the wild rose (Ros<i caniria) ulmost every- 

 where, but, I think, seldom in such quantity on one rose-bush 

 as it was on one I saw on the roadside between Court Levs 

 and Caythorpe on 15th November. The bush is on the <jrass 

 away from the hedge, and is about 5I/2 ft. hig"h and 4 ft. through. 

 There were 46 new galls upon it, and the remains o'i some 

 belonging to season igoi. Each gall contains many larvae, and 

 is caused by the puncture of a small insect {Rhoditcs i-osce). 

 On 5th February I found thai many of these galls had been 

 broken open by birds, and the inmates extracted. — S. C. Stow, 

 Grantham, 9th February, 1903. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



Plusia bractea Fb. at Doncaster. Among some insects 

 brought to me to be named, last week, was a specimen of the 

 above-named species, its captor, Mr. E. B. Tonkinson, tells 

 me that he took it at flowers of Clematis, on 15th August 1902, 

 along with P. oaniina. It seems to me to be a very remarkable 

 capture, bractea being usually considered to be a high moorland 

 species, and rare at all times. H. H. Corbett, Doncaster, 9th 

 March 1903. 



Plusia bractea was exceptionalh^ abundant in its known 

 localities in Scotland and Ireland last year : a lepidopterist 

 friend told me lie ' could net them faster than he could box 

 them,' so it is perhaps not extraordinary that one should 

 wander to Doncaster. G. T. P. 



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COLEOPTERA. 



Pogonocherus bidentatus Thorns, near Doncaster. — I 

 took a specimen oi this species at Dodworth. on Thursday, the 

 5th inst. It is, I believe, rare in "\'orkshire. H. H. Corbett, 

 Doncaster, 9th March 1903. 



Ocypus similis P. near Doncaster. I was collecting in 

 .\rmthorpe Lane, near Doncaster, in late summer 1902, and in 

 a sand-pit under a log of wood I captured one specimen oi' 

 Ocypus similis F. It is not included in Hey's list, and Fowler 

 mentions the peculiarity that it does not occur between the 

 south-eastern and the northern counties. For these reasons 

 I thought it was worth recording. — H. Y. Corbett, Doncaster, 

 24th February 1903. 



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