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Deilephila euphorbm, L., is reported by Mr. G. C. Barrett ; 

 single specimen having been taken in his garden at King's Lynn 

 ("Ent. Mo. Mag." xxiv. 114, 132). 



D. livornica, Esp., was exhibited at the Society's meeting on April 

 2gth, by Mr. Helps. The specimen was taken in the beginning of 

 February at Coles Cross in Somerset (about twelve miles inland), 

 where it flew in at a cottage door, evidently attracted by light. 



Chcerocampa celerio^ L., has fallen to the lot of Mr. H. Murray, 

 of Carnforth. 



Callimorpha hera, L., has again been taken in its accustomed lo- 

 cality in Devonshire by both Mr.W. F. de V.Kane and Mr. J. Jager. 

 Whatever may have been the origin of this insect in this country, 

 there can now be no doubt that it occurs in this locality under 

 natural conditions. 



Catocala fraxini^ L. A single specimen is reported by Mr. R. W. 

 BowYER to have been picked up on a path at Hertford (" Entom." 

 XX. 306), and one by Mr. H. M. Lee, of Sutton, Surrey, who took it 

 on a tarred paling on September i8th ("Entom." xx. 325). 



Eiipithecia extensaria, Freyer., has been turned up on the Norfolk 

 coast by Messrs. A. E. Atmore and G. C. Barrett, who secured 

 some nine examples in all. They were driven out of Artemisia 

 maritima. The species does not appear to have been previously 

 recorded for some years (" Ent. Mo. Mag." xxiv. 114). 



Hymenoptera : — 



Blennocampa atterima, Klug., and B. aliernipes, Klug., two rare 

 sawflies, were exhibited at the Society's meetings by Mr. T. R. 

 BiLLUPS, who took them at Chobham and Boxhill respectively. 



Diptera : — 



Cecidomyia destructor^ Say., has been observed in greatly increased 

 numbers in several parts of the country, and in some localities has 

 created quite a panic among growers of cereals. Whether this pest is 

 of recent importation, or whether it has long found a home within our 

 shores, but escaped observation, appears to be a point on which 

 those best calculated to form an opinion are not agreed ; but we have 

 the satisfaction to know that several species parasitic upon it have 

 already been discovered to be here, and further, that the average 

 British climate has not yet been proved to be favourable to its con 

 tinual and rapid increase (see "Entom." xx. 262, 317, 327). 



