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Esp., together with a specimen of the Neuropteron Hydropsyche pelluce- 

 dida, Curt. 



I omitted to mention that this morning about 8 a.m. I got a fine 

 female of the Orthopteron Gryilus campestris, L., also a specimen of 

 the beetle Hoplia philanthus, Fuess., on the road between Sauverny and 

 Versoix. 



July Ath. — I left Gex to-day for Annemasse in Haute- Savoie, and 

 my collecting in that neighbourhood among the French Alps will form 

 the subject of a further article. 



I3)0TES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



A Note from Constantinople. — A third brood of P. chloridice. — 

 I have not had over much time for collecting here lately. Pontia 

 chloridice produced a third brood in September. The season has been 

 very dry till lately. I have been trying to sugar the last fortnight — 

 results one Plusia gamma and one Leucania in bad order. This is the 

 suburbs — but still it does not say much for the attractiveness of sugar 

 here. — P. P. Graves. October 6th. 



Second brood of Parasemia plantaginis. — P. plantaginis was com- 

 mon on the grassy open slopes near Lulworth Cove, in Dorset, and 

 particularly active on the wing at sundown. I think that there can be 

 little doubt that this was a second brood, though I was not there to 

 observe any flight in May and June. From two of these females I now 

 have many small caterpillars who have cast their second skin.. — M. 

 Boldero, 57, Elm Park Gardens, S.W. October 11th. 



Teratological Specimens. — Mr. G. B. Pearson, of Pasadena, S. 

 California, writes to say that a friend who collects largely on the Pacific 

 Coast of California has recently caught a specimen of the beautiful 

 little " blue " exilis, with five perfect wings, the right upper wing being 

 duplicated. This latter gentleman possesses a fivewinged example 

 of the Saturniid Samia cecropia. — Hy. J. T. . 



A Locust at Mansfield. — A friend of mine has had a fine speci- 

 men of the locust, Pachytylus migratorius given to him. A man heard 

 it making a rustling noise amongst his cabbages, and when it was dis- 

 turbed it took to flight, but he managed to knock it down with his cap. 

 This was on September 25th, 1921. — William Daws. October, 1921. 



Notes from North Notts. — After great promise, according to the 

 number of larva? feeding in the woods in spring, it was almost a failure 

 later on with the imagines in this district. There were thousands of 

 the common species of larva? feeding on the various forest trees. Bat I 

 did not collect any, intending to get them when about full fed, but 

 before my next visit we had a lot of wet weather, in fact some very 

 heavy rain storms, which washed off most of the larva? from their food 

 plants. Pieris brassicae and P. rapae have been fairly common all the 

 season, Rttmicia phlaeas, Coenonympha par/rphilm and Polyommatus 

 icarus were also common. I did not see a single batch of Aqlais urticae 

 larva? this season, but a few imagines are now on the wing, also one or 



