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sallow bushes ; N. tityrella, bred from beech ; N. prunetoruvi, bred from 

 sloe ; N. alnetella, two, beat from alders. Bohemannia quadrimaculella, 

 six beat from alder, in fine condition, July 26lh to August 21st. — (Rev.) 

 O. P. Cambridge ; Bloxworth Rectory, Jan. 31, 1893. 



CoLEOPTERA IN THE OxFORD DISTRICT. — I have to record the capture 

 of the following Coleoptera (Geodephaga) during 1892 : — Lebia cldoro- 

 cephala, amongst grass at Cowley, near Oxford. Dyschirius ceneus, two 

 examples at Cowley. Clivina collaris, in dung near Oxford. -Oodes helo- 

 poides, half-a-dozen specimens from under the bark of willows, near the 

 Cherwell. Panajteus crux-major, near Shotover, under stones. Calosoma 

 inquisitor, two examples in Bagley Wood. Cychrus rostratus, several 

 examples from under dead leaves, and in rotten stumps near Oxford. 

 Badister unipustulatus and B. bipustulatus, at Cowley, in company with 

 Taphria vivialis. Benibidium lunatum, one specimen was taken in flood 

 refuse near the confluence of the Cherwell and Thames. The male and 

 female of Brachinus crepitans were taken in cop. at Cowley. — John W. 

 Shipp ; Assistant to the late Prof. Westwood. 



Notes from Italy. — x\fter sending my report from Certosa di Pesio 

 (Entom. XXV. 261) a new brood of Pieris napi, L., ab. NaptscB, E., appeared 

 in the meadows. P. daplidice, L., was also to be taken, the specimens 

 being freshly emerged. L. telicanus, Hb., also became common in the 

 Certosa neighbourhood. iSpilothyrus althcecB, Hb., was not uncommon towards 

 the middle of September. Colias edusa and var. helice were common and 

 fresh, as was C. hyale, L. 1 tried " sugar "in the grounds of the hotel— an 

 ideal sugaring-ground of large extent, encircled by a high wall, containing 

 a great variety of timber and bordering on the forests clothing the mountain 

 sides: the first attempt was made on the 5th of September, and continued 

 nightly for about three weeks. A good many insects were taken ; among 

 them several fine examples of Catocala fraxini, L., the largest measuring 

 four inches and one-tenth in expanse. The only available beer to use in 

 the manufacture of the " sugar " was bottled beer ; the sweets were sup- 

 plied by lump sugar, and rum at 7id. the liqueur glass ; then I had no 

 poisonmg bottle or chip boxes, so that each insect had to be taken in the 

 net and pinched previous to pinning in a collecting-box. However, the 

 results were satisfactory, and 1 must await my return to England to deter- 

 mine several of the captures. At San Dalmazzo di Tenda, which 1 should 

 thuik would make a capital centre for collecting during the summer, I 

 took, durmg the one day I remained there, several tine specimens of 

 Lycctna bcetica, L. L. telicanus, Hb., was very common on flowers of 

 Aster amelius ; and fairly fresh specimens of Limenitis Camilla, F., Satyrus 

 hermione, S. circe, S. statilinus, and *S. seinele were on the wing, and 

 quanlitits of Colias edusa and var. helice, Hb., togelher with G. hyale, 

 enlivened the rocky hiU-sides. At Bordighera, where I arrived on the ist 

 of October, I tound L. bcetica, L., fairly common, especially in some fields 

 near the mouth of the Nervia; the females depositing their eggs on the 

 flowers, fruit, or, more rarely, the leaves, of Medicago sativa. L. telicanus 

 was also common, and the two insects continued on the wing, in sheltered 

 spots, where flowers of Inula viscosa abounded, throughout October. 

 Some males of L. bcetica were thickly powdered with bright blue hairs, and 

 some females measured nearly an inch and a half in expanse. On the sea- 

 sands flowers of Pancrallum maritimum, L., so attractive to moths, still 



