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gentle tapping, all of the melanic form, and in splendid condition. I 

 also tried the mouths of rabbit burrows, by rattling a small twig in 

 them, when the moths, mostly 3^ s, flew out. I then searched the 

 mouths and found that freshly emerged 5 s were still at rest. [To he 

 continued.) — C. W. Colthrup. 



Notes from Bexley. — Up till to-day, May 8th, still no S. carpini 

 have emerged. On May 7th 1 took an example of Stanropus fagi in the 

 open. On May the 4th the swallow and the swift were noticed here 

 for the first time this year, the house martins (seven or eight) were 

 seen on April 27th. The first Celastrina arf/iolus yva,s seen on May 4th, 

 as also the first Strenia clathrata. The nightingale appeared on the 

 8rd of May. Callophrys rnbi, in small number, and also one or two 

 Eiichlo'e cardainines, males, appeared in to-day's beautiful sunshine. — 

 L. W. Newman, Bexley. May 8th. 



CURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



WioKEN Fen Fund. — Now that restrictions as to light and 

 photography are no longer needed, and opportunities for nature lovers 

 increase week by week, no doubt many more will be able to avail 

 themselves of visiting the above historic ground, now made open to 

 the public for ever by the National Trust. Still that is not all. To 

 provide a watcher to protect the plants and wild life from unworthy 

 depredators, both native and foreign, needs funds, and for this 

 purpose we make an appeal to our readers to contribute their mites to 

 the Hon. Treasurer, Mr. W. G. Sheldon, Youlgreave, S. Croydon. In 

 his letter to me Mr. Sheldon says that a further small area has just 

 been added, and we may feel assured that as opportunity occurs no 

 doubt other portions will be acquired.— H.J. T. 



The Irish Naturalist contains a series of " Entomological Notes 

 from Donegal, Fermanagh and Armagh," dealing with Lepidoptera, 

 <]oleoptera and Odonata. We note that Melitaea aurinia was " in 

 numbers on the heathy bogs," a specimen of Agriopis apv-/i!'mfl," which 

 I had not met with before," was taken. Cases of a Coleophorid were 

 picked from sallow, an-d a nice series of Goleophora anatipmiiella were 

 obtained. Bupalus piniperda was also a fresh species to the district. 

 Among Coleoptera, Carabus clathratus, and a white form of Fhilopedon 

 geminatus were taken ; C'ici?idela campestris " was very mtich in 

 evidence," and Athons hirtus was an addition to the Irish List. In the 

 Odonata Lestes sponsa, OrtJietriim cuerulescens, and Sympetrum striolatum 

 were perhaps the most noteworthy captures. 



Among recent publications by the Imperial Department of 

 Agriculture in India, are the following memoirs from the Agricultural 

 Journal of India (insect pests) : — 



(1) Vol. v.. No. li. Indian sugar-cane leaf -hopper. [Pyrilla 

 aberrans, Kirby), by C. S. Misra, B.A. Price 8/-. (2) Vol. v., 

 No. iii. Report on a collection of Termites from India, by Karin and 

 Nils Holmgren, Hogskolas Zootomiska Institut, Stockholm. Trans- 

 lated by T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, R.N., F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S. Price 

 1/6. (3) Vol. v., No. iv. On a collection of Sphecoidoa sent by the 

 Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, Bihar, by Rowland E. Turner, 



