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nice fringe of rubbish round the inside margin, and, on leaving the 

 train at 12.20, we at once proceeded to collect there. Beetles were 

 numerous, and flying about in the hot sunshine. Indeed they were 

 diflBcult to pick up from the sheet, and still more difficult to detect. 

 Mr. Donisthorpe's ready knowledge of the insects in the field saved us 

 from overlooking several of the better insects, which seem worthy of 

 being recorded, many of them not having been taken at Whitstable 

 for a considerable time. Indeed, nothing but a flood would have 

 enabled us to find those now captured, as they had evidently been 

 washed out of the adjoining shingle, as well as from the field, on 

 the margin of which we were collecting. Most of them were 

 sifted on the spot, but a small bag of roughly sifted material, which 

 was more carefully sifted atHuntingfield subsequently, helped to swell the 

 number of specimens, though it added no new species. On a second visit 

 paid by me a fortnight later, most of the insects occurred again, but 

 the drought that then ensued seemed to render any further captures un- 

 likely, and I have not since visited the spot. After collecting at this 

 spot, Mr. Donisthorpe and I walked back to Faversham, but we found 

 little by the way. There was a large deposit at one spot, and here I got 

 a single Diglotta, but that was the only addition. The brightness of 

 the day had departed, and beetles had ceased to fly. The list of our 

 more interesting captures is appended : Limnaewn nigropiceum, Marsh, 

 LionycJnis quadrillum, Duft. (three specimens), Trechns lapidosus, Daws, 

 Metabletits truncatellus, L., and M. obscurogitttatns, Duft., Oclithehiiis 

 margipallens, Lat., Sipalia testacea, Bris., Calodera aethiops,-'' Gr., 

 Myrmecophora iivida, Er., and M. sulcata, Kies, Heterothops binotata, 

 Gr., Xantholinus tricolor, F., Achenium hituiUe, Nic, Steniis solntus,^ 

 Er., Scopaeus trichonn, KoL, Trogophloeiis corticinus, Gr., Oxytelu^ 

 insecatus, Gr., Agathidium marginatum, Stm., Ptenidium punctatum, 

 GylL, Atomaria gutta, Steph., A. nigriventris, Steph., A. linearis, 

 Throscus obtusus, Curt., and Oxyomus porcatus, F. Of other insects a 

 Proctotrypid, Goniozus claripennis, taken once before by me at Deal, 

 and two ants, Ponera punctatissima, one ? and one ^ , and workers of 

 Myrmeana latreillei, may be mentioned. — Arthur J. Chitty, 27, 

 Hereford Square, S.W. May 15th, 1906. 



:^OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Early appearance of Hesperia malv^ and Callophrys rubi. — I 

 can add to the records of first appearances for 1906 {antea, pp. 135, 

 137), that, on Easter Tuesday (April 17th) I saw, on the undercliff, 

 near Ventnor, one specimen of each of the above-named butterflies ; 

 both, as might be expected, were in beautiful condition. — Louis B. 

 Prout. iii«?/ 16^/i, 1906. 



Early appearance of Nisoniades tages. — The first Nisionades 

 tages seen here this year was on the 12th inst. at blossoms of Nepeta 

 glechoma.—J. F. Bird, Tintern. May 16th, 1906. 



Random notes on Lepidoptera. — As I am devoting practically the 

 whole of my scanty leisure just now to obtaining photomicrographs of 

 the ova of all the British butterflies, and life-size photographs of their 

 subsequent stages, I have been unable to do more than a very little 

 towards adding specimens to my cabinet of late; but having had rather 

 more success than usual with one or two small lots, a few rough notes 



