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is a sharply pointed born, pale in colour, below which before reaching the impressed 

 metanotum there is a second but obtuse tooth. The propodeon is divided longi- 

 tudinally by a broad raised ridge which is smooth and shining and projects behind 

 as a blunt tooth. So much of the rest of the propodeon as is visible is smooth and 

 shining. The large segment of the abdomen which covers more than 

 three-fourths of the whole is smooth and shining, the surface being almost imper- 

 ceptibly alveolate. The antenna? have the scape long and slender, more than half 

 the length of the funicle, slightly thickened from the base upwards and curved 

 outwardly, having outwardly just before the apex a curved excavation from before 

 the commencement of which springs a long curved hair or bristle reaching to just 

 beyond the end of the joint which is truncate, the second joint obconical and almost 

 as thick as the scape, twice as long as thick, the third joint only half as wide, 

 ovoid and longer than thick, the fourth joint as long as the last, twice as long as 

 thick, cylindrical, the fifth joint the same width, globular, the sixth joint trans- 

 verse and truncate at the apex, the seventh to tenth joints forming a club slightly 

 thicker than the scape, the seventh subtriangular, longer than thick at the apex, 

 the eighth and ninth cup-shaped, transverse, the tenth joint longer than 

 thick and bluntly rounded at the tip. The hind and mid tibias are long and slender, 

 thickened towards the apex, the femora strongly thickened in the middle. 



In a nest of F. fasca at Barmouth on June 23rd, 1906. See Ent. 

 Eec, 1906, p. 319. 



Ig^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Notes from Kent, Middlesex and Surrey. — My first hunt this 

 year was in Eichmond Park on April 21st. Here I found Pammene 

 argyrana in abundance settled on oak trunks ; most trees sheltered 

 three or four and some especially favoured carried nearly a dozen 

 moths. Among the number were two cream coloured specimens as 

 Wilkinson calls them, while Barrett alludes to them as " dirty wTiite." 

 There were a few intermediate between these and the type, and two P. 

 splendidulana were also noticed. Two days later I found Ancylis 

 inornatana quite plentiful in its old haunt among Salix fasca on Barnes 

 Common. Later Lithocolletis qubiqueguttella also occurred here. At 

 Hindhead on May 13th, several cocoons of Stigmella (Nepticala) 

 septembrella were found in leaves of Hypericum. I was surprised to 

 see Hesperia (Syrichthiis) malvae at Eichmond on May 22nd, as I had 

 never previously seen it there. On the birches I found larvae of 

 Salebria (Phycis) betulae. The larva spins a slight but quite tough 

 cocoon, to one end of which the pupa is firmly anchored by strong 

 cremastral hooks. The moth on emergence carries a portion of the 

 pupal head case with it, by means of which it forces a hole through the 

 cocoon, and after emergence this part of the pupal shell is found 

 outside the cocoon. It is a trefoil shaped piece which is apparently 

 the top of the head, but as this pupa is of macrotype and breaks up 

 irregularly I was- unable to fit the pieces on to any of the pupae 

 to ascertain their exact position. 



At Otford, on the 29th, I found two small pupae in a head of 

 Garlina vulgaris. They had the look of dipterous pupae, as they were 

 quite without segmental movement, but the lens showed them to be 

 lepidopterous, and at the end of June one of them disclosed a nice 

 specimen of Parasia caHinella. On the 31st, I saw four imagines of 

 Chrysoclysta linneella on lime trunks in Chiswick, this is the earliest 

 date I have on record. At Orpington, June 19th, Aphelosetia argentella 

 was in multitudes for about half a mile along a road side. It would 

 be an exaggeration to say that the grass was white with them, but 



