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shop in Dermody Gardens, Lewisham, on the evening of July 7th, and 

 a specimen of Apatela aceris ab. iufyscata, Haw., on a shop front on 

 "the Pavement," Lewisham, on the evening of June 29th. The 

 latter still appears to be a very rare form in this country. — A. M. 

 Cochrane, Lewisham, S.E. July IQth, 1906. 



Immigration of Pyrameis cardui. — I notice that several correspondents 

 mention the immigration of Pijrameis carchn, but, as most of the records 

 appear to be from the southeastern counties, perhaps its appearance in 

 this quarter may be worth noting. The first one I saw this year was on 

 May 28th, at Tintern, and I have since seen specimens in this neigh- 

 bourhood on June 3rd, 4th, 5th (several), and July 5th. I have also 

 met with examples, while cycling, at Goodrich, in Herefordshire, on 

 June 19th ; Berrow, in Worcestershire, on July 3rd ; and a good 

 number in Herefordshire last Saturday, July 7th, in the open country 

 betw^een Whitchurch and Pencoyd. One I saw on this date had the 

 temerity to chase a bird, a thing I have never seen a butterfly da 

 before. I was riding quietly round a bend in the road and started a, 

 blackbird out of a hedge, when it flew across the road to an oak-tree. 

 On the road was a specimen of P. cardui, basking in the sun, which, 

 seeing the bird flying by, promptly made after it, keeping an inch or 

 two behind until it had reached the tree, when it left it and sailed 

 round back to the road again. — J. F. Bird, The Nurtons, Tintern, 

 Monmouthshire. July dth, 1906. 



Agriades corydon in Monmouthshire. — While out last Saturday 

 evening, August 11th, searching for aberrations among the Ruiniria 

 phlaeas and Polyommatm icariis sleeping on grass-heads, etc., I was 

 very much surprised to come across a fine male specimen of Agriades 

 corydon, a species I did not expect to find here. Probably it was a 

 wanderer from one of its habitats in Gloucestershire. — Ibid. 



Laphygbia exigua at Bexley. — When in company with Mr. V. E. 

 Shaw, I took a grand specimen (<? ), in bred condition, of Laphygma 

 exigua here last night fluttering in the grass. — L. W. Newman, Bexley, 

 Kent. August 21th, 1906. 



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Two EXCURSIONS TO NoRTH WaLES FOR COLEOPTERA. Ou Juiie 21st 



I went to Barmouth for a few days' beetle-hunting, the chief object of 

 the trip being to take the tiger-beetle, Cicindela maritima. This is 

 common at Harlech, near by, and it was found in numbers on the 

 sandhills there. Other things taken at Harlech worthy of mention 

 were : ''''Choleva agilis {g ) and Cassida uobilis (swept), and Cis pyginaeu» 

 common under bark of palings. Cistela murina occurred in number* 

 on flowers on the very top of the walls of the famous castle. Pliilo- 

 pertha horticola was in great numbers everywhere, indeed, not only at 

 Harlech, but at Barmouth and all the places round, though out of all the 

 thousands observed, only one aberration, a blue-black form, was taken, 

 at Llanbedr. The Bog of Arthog was once visited, and a search at 

 the roots of reeds, flags, etc., in the bog produced Alianta incana, 

 Erirhinus scirpi, Anchoruemis gracilis, viduus, and var. moestus, puellus, 

 and thoreyi, Quedius semiaeneus, Actobius cinerascens, Evestethus rufica- 

 pillus, Paederus fuseipes, Elaphrm uliginosus, Galeruca cahnarensis,. 

 Hoplia philanthas (swept), ''Bledius longulus, etc. At Barmouth itself. 



