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Rtercorariua, L., G. mutator, Marsh., anri G. f^yTvO'ticu-'i, Pz. Amoncfst thp 

 Telephorirlpe were Telephorus darwinicmiis, Slip., T. fuscicnrnia. 01.. T. 

 paUidus. F., and Malachim mnens, L.. as als<i Anthocomus smifiuinoJentm, 

 F., Dnlichosoma nnhilp., III., and 7). h'ware. Rossi. Amongst the Curcn- 

 lionidfe were Otinrrhijnchus septentrionU, Hbst., Barynotu^ schonhem. 

 Zfitt.. Anfhanoimts uhni, DeG., and A. povionO''' L., as also a fine male of 

 EhopaJnuiesites tardii, Curt., the Chrysomelidse having only two repre- 

 sentatives in Chrysomela varians. F., and Crepidodera transveraa. Walk. 

 — in all, seventy-eight species. There can be no doubt, had Mr. Watson 

 given particular attention to the Coleoptera, we should have had a much 

 more extended list to record from the Tsle of Arran. — T. R. Billups. 



CoLLRCTTNG IN SoMF.RSRTSHrRE, 1892. — I have to report another poor 

 season as regards sugar : general collecting I have not done. Almost all 

 common insects were very few, or absent, save Anchocelis pistacina. 

 Ac/rotis saucia was more plentiful than usual ; and I took, for the first time 

 for several years, Xylina petrificata (soda), some dozen specimens. I noted 

 three or four Coh'as edusa in my garden, the first I have seen here since 

 1877. Vanessa atalanta was most abundant, but of V. cardui I did not 

 see a single specimen. Several pnpse and one imago of Acherontin atropns 

 were brought to me, and a brood of ten larvae of Chcerocampa elpenor were 

 taken on the hairy willow herb (Epilobium Jii)'sutum). Pieris rapes and 

 P. hrassica were very abundant. — H. W. Livett ; Wells, Somerset. 



Collecting tn Reabfng and Dorset, 1892. — During the past season, 

 amongst manv other things, I have taken Dicycla oo (the second recorded 

 for the district), one Epunda lutulenta. a series of Aplecta tincta, a few 

 A. advena, Boarmia roboraria, B. cbictnria (new last season to the list). 

 Ancierona prunaria, Geometra papilionaria, Astheiia hlomerl, and was 

 fortunate to net one black male Fido7iia piniaria (somewhat worn). The 

 latter end of June and first part of July I was in Dorset, and on Power- 

 stock Common Argyjuiis aglaia, A. ndippe, Melanargia galatea, and Satyrus 

 semele were common. Zyqmia trifol'd was verv abundant, in great varietv 

 and splendid condition. Thyatira derasa and T. hatis were more plentiful 

 at sugar than I have ever noticed before. Returning to Pceading, Noctua 

 rhomholdea came to sugar on the 16th and 19th of August, but was much 

 wasted ; from thirty taken, not more than six were worth setting ; of the 

 others, the males were rejected and the females boxed. The latter end of 

 August and besfinning of September A^phalia diluta was frequent at sugar, 

 while in the middle of the month Xanthia citrago swarmed on the sugared 

 twigs of lime trees. Agrotis saucia has been got all over the district. On 

 Sept. 19th X. aurago apppared, and till the end of first week in October 

 was taken in astonishing numbers, and of almost every conceivable variety, 

 from a pale yellow to the deep orange-red of some winter sunsets. On 

 Oct. 20th T tried in a likely place for Dasycampa ruhiglnea, but failed to 

 get it ; others, who sugared right through the month and into November, 

 were, however, more successful. The only insect above the common I got 

 on my last attempt was Calocampa vetusta, a species seldom taken here. 

 Butterflies have been out in goodly numbers, but a few species have not 

 appeared so numerous in the autumn as in the spring. Vanessa polychloros 

 I saw frequently in May ; it has not, so far as I know, been captured since. 

 Gonopteryx rhamni could be got here and there in ones and twos, but it did 

 uot appear in anything like plenty. As in other places. V. atalanta, F. 



