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Heterogenea (Limacodes) asella in Devon. — Whilst out beating 

 for larvae with a friend, on the afternoon of June 20th, in the Plym Valley, 

 I was surprised to find in my umbrella a male and female of the above 

 species in cop. According to Newman, Westwood and Humphrey, and 

 Stainton's ' Manual,' this species has only been taken in Hampshire.* If 

 this be still the case this species is new to the Western counties. — F. J. 

 Briggs; Fursdon, Egg Buckland. 



Note on Crabro interruptus. — lam happy to say this wasp has again 

 appeared in the garden here, driving holes in the old elm stump in which it 

 took up its abode last year, and in another old elm stump about one hundred 

 yards away. It is a curious sight to see the wasps carrying bluebottle flies, 

 which seem to be their principal, or at any rate, favourite diet, into their 

 borings. The fleshy parts of the bodies are the parts fed upon, and the 

 wings and hard external parts are thrown out of the borings, and may be 

 seen amongst the heap of wood-dust outside. Last year the Crabro was 

 present in fair numbers about the latter end of August and September, and 

 judging from the quantity of wood-dust now being thrown out in making 

 the borings, I should think it will be pleutiful again this year. I am in 

 doubt whether the insects have one common nest, and whether the various 

 borings converge on one point, or whether each Crabro and its family have 

 their own habitation ; but certainly more than one Crabro, even at this 

 period of the year, enter the same hole, and there seems to be one principal 

 entrance larger than the others ; moreover they are using some of the 

 holes made by their ancestors last year. Perhaps some"' of your correspon- 

 dents acquainted with the insect's habits will kindly give me this information. 

 From the report in the ' Entomologist' of last December of the Entomo- 

 logical Society's meeting, held on November 6th last, at which a specimen 

 caught by me was exhibited, it would appear that the Crabro exhibited was 

 a solitary specimen found by me in "a hole in a log ;" but this is not so, as 

 I merely caught the specimen exhibited for the purpose of having the 

 species identified, and I could have captured a good many had I so desired. — 

 Francis C. Woodbridge ; " Old Bank" House, Uxbridge, July 17, 1890. 



Ino geryon in Berkshire. — Amongst moths captured here, within the 

 last few days, a male specimen of Ino (Procris) geryon has been taken ; and 

 a nearly full-grown larva of Dasychira fascelina was found on an oak. — 

 J. M. Bacon ; Eagle House, Sandhurst, Berks, June 2, 1890. 



Sirex gigas near Plymouth. — To-day I secured a fine female of the 

 above species, which flew into a greenhouse in the garden here. I thought 

 at first that it was a hornet, from the loud buzzing noise it made, but soon 

 saw that I was mistaken. I had never previously taken or seen it here. — 

 F. J. Briggs; Fursdon, Egg Buckland, June 22, 1890. 



Hesperia lineola. — The third excursion of the South Londou Ento- 

 mological and Natural History Society was to Leigh, in Essex, where, 

 conducted by Mr. Carrington, the party, twenty in number, had a good 

 time with Hesjoeria lineola, the newest English thing in the way of butter- 

 flies. The individual " takes " varied from twenty specimens to a single 

 example. So far as I could learn there was only oue gentleman who failed 

 to secure the coveted species. Although he netted a good number of 

 " skippers," they all proved, on inspection, to be H. thaamas. — R. S. 



* [Stainton gives Lyndhurst and Worthing. — Ed.] 



