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NOTE—FUNGI. 
pomaphors gigas at eae kt Lincolnshire.—I found — Saturday 
at Burw eam nes., Div. in a plantation, one of t ee herer inci: 
M . 
fe Hobineon6 reat authority here, says it is Mitrophota ‘gigas 
BENJN. CRow, ea goth May 1899. 
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NOTE—LEPIDOPTERA. 
Hummingbird Hawkmoth near Horncastle,—I have twice within 
wk 
the last few days seen a Hummingbird Hawkmoth (iacragtssa ties rum) 
in my garden here. I also saw one in the adjoining parish o ornton, and 
I hear that two or three have b een at Woodhall Spa. They were first 
seen t by myself about fifteen years a if ye not seen any here, 
nor have | heard of their being seen in this neighbourhood, for a last six 
rears s se the lon ell of abnormally ho ather ha 
brought them out.—J. CONWay WALTER, Langto on Dogaieh Horneastle, 
29th August 1899. . 
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NOTE—PROTOZOA. 
Food of Hydra viridis.—On 3rd June I made an excursion to 
Swillington, and brought home Aydra viridis. I put them into a basin with 
tap water and the little sediment which was at the bottom of my bottle. The 
basin was put into my greenhouse, and next morni I put in a few bre 
umbs, which we oO use. n put the green fly we is, of the 
young shoots of the rose ee and found they soon devou t n 
fact I allowed them to eat all the Aphides I could get. The ‘Ryden etidca 
thus be very serviceable in a greenhouse it nay could live on plants. —EpDWw 
WHITEHOUSE, 89, Clarendon Road, Leeds, roth June 1899. 
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NOTE—ENTOMOLOGY. 
South American Insects in England.—The occurrence of insects 
in the neighbourhood of our important seaports, import rted from South 
America, or any part of the globe from which live sheep and cattle are 
brought to my notice on ig quantity of insect life in the Alfalfa, Anglice 
Lucerne (Medicago sa L.) which is shipped in Buenos Ayres for ca tle 
food. The Alfalfa aoe literally swarmed with life, butterflies, mote, 
beetles, flies, and other forms of insect ite = ae to me. Asw wallow-tailed 
butterfly of large dimensions crawled ou the last consignmen 
' that I took up out of the hold just Retire we entered the Tha whee as also 
did beetles and flies and a small sort of bee. When passing the Isle of _ 
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