248 THE entomologist's record. 



noticed, the only earwigs in the collection, and several specimens of the 

 curious I'anlalnta versicolor, Br. This curious Phaneropterid is more 

 original than the other meml)ers of the family, for, instead of the 

 usual pale green colour, it is dark brown, while the elytra are mainly 

 light brown, black in parts, with a rich purple band near the anterior 

 margin ; the wings, too, are nearly black. Here are also several nice 

 2l('roj)0(U(la(' of various genera, some doubtless being new to science. 



M. Auguste Lameere, now engaged in the herculean task of 

 writing the Fauna of Belgium, has brought home some nice things 

 from a little-visited part of the Saliara. Among the Orthoptera, there 

 are several ]'!n')pi(i/ihilitlar, Sj)Jiiit(/onotits, J'^reinobida/', I'aiiijiJiii/idac, and 

 the adaptation of those creatures to desert life is extremely striking. 



All who have collected insects must have often noticed the sudden 

 disappearance from certain localities of insects which had a short time 

 before been very abundant. M. Lameere discovered the very local 

 Decticid, (icDupsodcis ijlahra in great numbers in a place in Belgium. 

 For two years there was no noticeable decrease in their numbers, but 

 the third season none were to be seen. M. le Baron du Selys-Long- 

 champs has noticed this same fact with regard to dragonflies at a 

 certain pool not far from Liege, and the writer found (ioiiijiJioccnis 

 riij'iis, L., in great numbers at the eastern end of the Folkestone 

 Warren in 1896, but in the following year not an individual w^as to be 

 seen. Dr. Krauss has informed us that he has observed the same 

 phenomenon in connection with ( '(inovrpluihis iiuuuUhnlaris, of which 

 a whole colony, once flourishing and numerous, completely disap- 

 peared. It is an interesting question, and deserves to be worked out in 

 detail. 



ti|OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Tinea simpliciella in North Kent. — It may interest the readers 

 of the KntoiiiolotjisVs Brcord to know that Mr. George Bird and myself 

 had the good fortune to capture five specimens of the rare Tineid, 

 Tinea siiiiiilicicUd, in North Kent, on Julv 26th last. — N. Charles 

 Rothschild, B.A., F.Z.8., F.E.S., 148, Piccadillv, W. Jiih/ 2HtJi, 

 1899. 



Agrotis puta in July. — In answer to the Re-s". G. H. Raynor's 

 question {(ottc p. 207) whether any of your readers remember taking 

 Al/rotis jjitta heiore August, I may mention that in Knt. Ilrconl, iii., 

 188-4, I recorded the capture by myself, at sugar, of a fine specimen 

 of it at Corfe Castle, on July 23rd, 1892, while Mr. Tutt, in an editorial 

 note appended to mine, there states that in early seasons he has taken 

 beautiful specimens of jnita at Deal during the last week in July. 

 Again, during the present season I took, at electric light here, a fine 

 female of this species on July 21st, a worn female on July 27th, and a 

 male in pretty fair condition on July ;-30th. — Eustace R. Bankes, 

 M.A., F.E.S.,'The Close, Sahsbury. ^Ain/ii^t 26///, 1899. [We find 

 that in 1885 and 1886 we captured examples of this species in Greenwich 

 marshes between July 18th and 20th of each year. The specimens 

 then taken were males. Ed.J 



The New Forest at Whitsuntide. — I was at Luidhui'st at Whit- 

 suntide this year, but owing to pressure of busine&s 1 have been unable 

 to send in my experiences until now, though I kept my diary regularly 



