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these are common to the locality. Of course one meets with many species 

 over and over again by working at one place, and it would be quite useless 

 to record all the species found here ; for instance, I met with ten species of 

 Telephorus, and with the exception of T . fuscicornis and T. discuideus all 

 are common. It may be worthy of remark that at Eynesford, in 1891, 

 T. fuscicornis was the commonest of the group in that district. Another 

 very common beetle on birch, hornbeam, and a variety of things at Clay- 

 gate is Lnperus hetulinus, and common enough it was on Saturday, falling 

 literally in hundreds into the umbrella. The Black Pond was reached 

 soon after 7 o'clock, but nearly all the Donaciae had retired for the day, so 

 that only D. sericea, with the intermediate forms to D. comari, were to be 

 obtained. Athous nigei' and Gonioctena viminalis were beaten from 

 sallow, as also was Creindodera helxines. Two or three CoccineUa ocellata 

 were found on the reeds, and one or two Enrrhinus nereis. The final 

 capture was a nice specimen of Cryptocephalus lineola, making the third 

 captured at this spot by myself. A great many odd and common things put 

 in an appearance, such as Adinionia caprea and Stropliosomus limhatus, but 

 the captures are all decidedly uninteresting." So ended another very 

 successful and enjoyable field outing of the Society, The next meeting 

 will be at Westerham, Kent, on July 15.— »Henry J. Turner. 



North London Natural History Society. — On Friday, May 19th, 

 1893, the N. L. N. H. S. made their annual excursion to the New Forest. 

 Nine members started; most of them left Waterloo by the 5.50 p.m. train, 

 reaching Lyndhurst Koad about 9 o'clock. Thence they went on by omnibus 

 to Lyndhurst, and, dismounting at the ' Crown,' walked about a quarter of 

 a mile to a pretty little cottage on the Brockenhurst Road, known as 

 Lynwood, the recognised head-quarters of the " North London " in the 

 New Forest. Here we received a warm welcome from our worthy landlady, 

 Mrs. Axford, of whom, as regards making her visitors comfortable on the 

 most reasonable possible terms, we cannot speak too highly ; and having 

 enjoyed a hearty supper, retired early to bed. On the following morning, 

 Messrs. Battley and Tremayne opened the campaign by working Lyndhurst 

 fences from 5 to 6 a.m. They only obtained one Lobophora halterata, and 

 a larva of Vanessa polychloros about to pupate. After this, being joined by 

 Mr. Bacot, they started beating up Beechen Lane to see what was about. 

 It soon became evident that if imagines were scarce, larvae were very much 

 the reverse. Asphalia ridens, in swarms ; Thecla quercus, in good numbers ; 

 Gonopteryx rhamni, Miselia oxyacanthce, Psilura monacha, Hybernia 

 aurantiaria, Nyssia hispidaria, Phigalia pedaria, and one specimen of 

 Geometra papilionaria, fell into Mr. Bacot's beating-tray. The day was 

 rather dull, and not many insects were on the wing ; so, after breakfast, 

 the whole party started larva-beating, and, in addition to the above, brought 

 down single specimens of Agrlopus aprilina, Gatocala promissa, Asphalia 

 diluta, Sind. PcecilocampapopuU ; together with several Hybernia leucophcearia, 

 H.rupicapraria, Himera pennaria, Eupitliecia abbreviata, Amphidasys stra- 

 taria, and Boarmia roboraria. Asphalia ridens, as I mentioned before, were 

 in very unusual numbers ; you could be almost sure of getting several oflf 

 every oak bough. Psilura ynonacha, I may remark, we seemed to beat off 

 everything ; we certainly beat it off oak, beech, birch, and hazel, which was 

 a surprise to me, at any rate ; I had no idea the larva was such a general 

 feeder. We also beat a great many larvae which we could not name ; whilst 

 the larvae of TcBniocampa stabilis and Calymnia trapezina were a perfect 



