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Salda arenicola, Scholz. The soil of the Bournemouth district is sand to a great 
depth, and at the shore the cliffs show that the sand rests on a sub-stratum of 
black clay. At several places where the sand and clay meet, water oozes out 
and runs over the latter, which crumbles down under its influence. In such 
situations, as mentioned by Mr. Edward Saunders (E. M.M., Vol. vii, p. 157), 
especially at Boscombe Chine, this Salda was not uncommon, but very difficult 
to see when at rest on the concolorous clay, and hard to capture when it moved, 
which was by flight, and not by leaps more Saldarum. Nevertheless, by the 
aid of a stick, I persuaded a few.to enter my net, where they were easily 
bottled. 
Salda 
species known to me. It is quite unlike S. arenicola, being of a short, broad- 
?: with the above I got one example which I cannot refer to any 
oval form, and of a brown-black colour, almost without markings on the elytra. 
Monanthia 4-maculata, Wolff: several, beaten from an old crab-tree in the New 
Forest, near Brockenhurst.--J. W. Douanas, Lee, 3rd October, 1871. 
Phacopteryx brevipennis at Ranworth Fen.—Among some miscellaneous Newrop- 
tera kindly collected for me by my friend Mr. Barrett, is an example of this insect, 
captured at Ranworth Fen in September. It is the fifth recorded British specimen ; 
the others being Curtis’s type, of uncertain locality, two taken at Scarborough by 
Mr. Fereday, and one at Bowdon by Mr. B. Cooke (see Ent. M. Mag. ii, p. 95). 
Probably it is of rare occurrence generally, for I have seen but few examples in the 
various boxes of European Trichoptera that have passed through my hands.—R. 
McLacutan, Lewisham, 2nd October, 1871. 
Occurrence of Agrypnia Pagetana near Edinburgh.—While staying at Edinburgh 
in August last, I captured fourteen specimeus of the Neuropterous Agrypnia Page- 
tana by sweeping along the margins of Duddingston Loch, at the foot of Arthur’s 
Seat. I believe this is the first time that the species has been met with in Scot- 
land ; and, so far as I am aware, the only locality previously recorded for it is the 
Fen District of Norfolk, where Mr. Winter, of Aldeby, took it in some numbers; 
Curtis’s type specimen being from the same part of the country.—P. C. Wormaxp, 
2, Clifton Villas, Highgate Hill, N., 21st September, 1871. 
Pieris Daplidice at Folkestone.—This autumn has produced a fair return; a 
Daplidice taken at Sandgate by Mr. J. W. Gore, and another captured above West 
Cliff, being the best.—T. H. Bricaes, Folkestone, 17th October, 1871. 
Note ow a probably new species of Platyptilus.—I have long been of opinion that 
some confusion existed about the two plume-moths, termed by British authors Pla- 
typtilus trigonodactylus and Platyptilus Zetterstedtii, and I accordingly consulted 
Dr. Staudinger upon the subject, sending him an English trigonodactylus, and a 
sketch of our English Zetterstedtii, from a specimen lent me by Mr. Doubleday. He 
replies thus:—“ My opinion is, that the species sent under the name trigonodactylus, 
“ Stt., is, without any doubt, Zetterstedtii, Zell., the larva of which feeds on Tus- 
* silago farfara. The insect which you term Zetterstedtii in England, and of which 
«you have sent me a figure, is entirely unknown to me, and most probably a new 
