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Forficula pubescens, Gene.— Yesterday I took five specimens of this local species 

 at Weymouth, where it was discovered by my father in September, 1837. We have 

 also found it at Charmouth in Dorsetshire, and at Bonchurch in the Isle of Wight. 

 It hibernates in the stems of the common reed. My father also took one at G-lanvilles 

 Wootton, in November, 1860, and Mr. Curtis one near Salisbury, in May, 1842. — 

 C. W. Dale, Manor House, G-lanvilles Wootton, Sherborne : September 2Uh, 1889. 



Stenobothrus rufipes, Zett. — I see, from Mr. Eland Shaw's paper, that thiB 

 species is decidedly local. It may be well, therefore, to put on record that it occurs 

 here at Gruestling rather commonly near the Rectory, and probably elsewhere, as I 

 have paid scarcely any attention to the Orthoptera. — E. N. Bloomfield, Guestling : 

 October 12tk, 1889. 



Vanessa Antiopa at Guestling . — I was greatly pleased and surprised at the 

 appearance of this insect in my garden on Tuesday, September 10th. It settled 

 within a couple of yards of me, and we watched it for some minutes, when, on its 

 opening its wings, I saw that the borders were of a cream or light buff colour. I 

 then procured my net and captured it without difficulty. It is a small specimen, 

 but in very good condition, and worthy of record, not only on account of the rarity 

 of the species, but of the colour of the borders of the wings, which shows it had not 

 been long on the wing. It must, indeed, have just emerged from the pupa, for after 

 capture it discharged a red fluid as is usual with newly-disclosed Vanessidce. I 

 believe another specimen was taken about the same time at Ecclesbourne, and two 

 have been met with near Battle. A notice of the capture of this species at Beckley 

 in April last is given in the " Entomologist," so that in this neighbourhood we have 

 been specially favoured by visits of V. Antiopa. — Id. 



Vanessa Antiopa at SecJcenham. — A specimen of the above, in good condition, 

 was caught in the garden of a friend of mine at Beckenham about the end of last 

 month. — Edward Saunders, St. Ann's, Woking : October 15th, 1889. 



Vanessa Antiopa at Barcombe, Siissex. — In a letter which I recently received 

 from Mr. Salmon, of Barcombe, the writer informs me that a specimen of Vanessa 

 Antiopa was caught in the garden of Barcombe Rectory on the 7th September last. — 

 H. G-OS8, Surbiton : October 8th, 1889. 



Dates of appearance of Lyccena Artaxerxes. — This year, on June 19th, I took 

 four beautiful freshly emerged specimens of Lyccena Artaxerxes, being the earliest 

 record I have noticed of its appearance in this locality, which is the nearest to the 

 English border I think of any yet recorded. Last year I did not see it till July 20th, 

 and in 1887 I saw it for the first time on the 9th of that month. — A. Elliot, 

 Caverton, Roxburgh, N.B. : June 25th, 1889. 



Lyccena exilis. — In the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, Vol. vi, 

 pt. 4, 1889, p. 159, figs. 13, 14, 15 (? unnumbered), Mr. Thomas P. Lucas, M.R.C.S., 

 etc., describes a new species of butterfly as Lyccena exilis. I write to call attention 



