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sina, Anarta myrtilli, A. hictiwsa, Plusia gamma (one or two 

 specimens noted by Mr. South between Effingham Junction and 

 Ockham), Plusia moneta (two pupae found by Mr. Richards in the 

 garden of the " Duke of Wellington " on Delphinium plants), Euclida 

 mi, E. glyphica, and Phlogop/iora 7iieticulosa. Larvce of Tceniocanipa 

 stabilis and T. pulverulenta (cruda) were found by Mr. Carr. Owing 

 to the fact that scarcely two (!) members seem to use the same name 

 for the Geometers, it is almost a hopeless task for an outsider to 

 collate the various notes, but the list seems to be as follows : — Epioue 

 advenaria, Rjimia luteolata, lodis ladearia, Zonosoma lincaria, 

 Asthenia candidata, Acidalia remutaria, Cabera pusaria, C. exanthe- 

 mata, Bapta bimaculata, Strenia clathrata, Panag}-a pelraria, Macaria 

 lilurata, Ematurga atomaria, Eidonia piniaria, Lomaspilis marginata, 

 Alelanippe montanata, M. fluduata, M. sociata, Camptogramma bi- 

 lineata, Afiaitis plagiata, Lare/iiia viridaria {pectinitaria), Eupithecia 

 oblongata {centaureata) (one), E.tenuiata,E. exiguaia (one) ; and larvffi 

 of Phigalia pilosaria, Hybernia aurantiaria, H. defoliaria, Cheimato- 

 bia bfu}?iata, and Oporabia dilutata. Pyralides were Pyrausta 

 punicealis, Botys panda lis, B. hyalinalis, Loxostege verticalis, Scoparia 

 ambigualis and ^S". dubitalis. Crambites : Crambus pratellus (very 

 abundant), C. chrysonuchellus (abundant), and C. hortuellus. Tor- 

 trices : Tortrix lecheana, T. ministrana, Pardia bipuncta7ia, Anchylo- 

 pera linidana, Catoptria hypericana (three specimens). Tinece : 

 JVemophora swamtnerdamella, Adela fibulella, Harpella geoffrella, and 

 Gracilaria sivederella. In addition, between Effingham Junction and 

 Ockham Mr. South took amongst the Vi\Qxo%, Pyrausta aurata (a few), 

 P. purpuralis (one), Ephippiphora pflugiana (two males), Argyrokpia 

 hartmanniana (two), Xanthosetia hamaria (common), and Ghphipieryx 

 fuscoviridella (abundant). 



With regard to the Hemiptera, Mr. Kirkaldy reports that on 

 arriving at Horsley a search was commenced for the bug Eusarcocoris 

 mclanocephalus, Fabr., which Mr. Turner had captured in the neigh- 

 bourhood a few years previously, and whose food-plant he was 

 desirous to determine. In the course of half-an-hour's examination 

 and beating Mr. Turner found a pair, and afterwards nine more, 

 while Mr. Kirkaldy secured two in cop. and two separate individuals. 

 Between them they established the fact of its occurrence on Stachys 

 sylvatica, each thinking that the observation was an original one. 

 But on looking up the literature Mr. Kirkaldy found that Lethierry, 

 in an apparently separately printed and little-known work (" Revue 

 des Hemipteres de Belgique," Lille, 1892, pp. 1-2), records the species 

 as " Partout sur Stachys sylvaticaP The new observation is, how- 

 ever, useful as confirming this statement, since E. Bucaille, in his 

 " Catalogue des Hemipteres au Department de la Seine-inferieure " 

 ("Bull. Soc. amis des Sci. Nat. de Rouen, 1887," pp. 1 43-1 81), records 

 it as " Sur les luzernes, des orties et un peu partout, mai a fin aout." 

 It may be, possibly, that he has mistaken the exact spot of his 

 captures, inasmuch as here at least the Stachys is always found close 



