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meet with it alive. This however is hardly likely at my time of 

 life. However it is quite possible that it may occur in Lincoln- 

 shire, and so I hope some reader of ' The Naturalist ' will be 

 fortunate enoup-h to find it. There may also be other species 



Fig. s. Epicrius canistrinii. Mailer. 



yet to be discovered and described, but these three are all I 

 know of at present ; here therefore is a fine field for work, 

 ' vei'biim scip.' 



I desire to express my thanks to Professors Berlese of 

 Florence and Sig" Thor of Christiana, and Messrs. A. D. 

 Michael, F.L. S., and C. D. Soar, F.R.M.S., for kind assistance 

 in this and other microscopic work. 



Since writing the above notes, I have seen a treatise on the 

 Acarina by Nathan Banks, published at Washing-ton in 1904 ; 

 on pag-e 57 he observes that ' of Iphiopsis and Epicrius no 

 species have been found in this country ' {i.e. America). 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



Selenia Lunaria at Denby Dale. — A single specimen of 

 this moth was captured by me at Netherend, near Denby Dale, 

 on the i6th June last. Mr. G. T. Porritt kindly identified it 

 for me, and states that it is a local moth generally, and in this 

 district a great rarity. — W. E. L. Wattam, Newsome. 



1906 August I. 



