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it for me. — TV. E. Davis; 36, Worsliip Street, City Road, 

 October 2, 1871. 



[I propose to call this species Phycis Davisellus. — Edward 

 New man. 1 



Copris lunaris at Hertford.— A few weeks ago I took a 

 fine specimen of Copris lunaris, under cow-dung, near 

 Christchurch, in the South of Hampshire. I believe it to be 

 a very unusual locality for this beetle. — H. A. Lucas; 

 Haileyhury College, Hertford, October 16, 1871. 



Epunda lutulenta, E. lichenea, Dryops femorata, 8$c., 

 at Brixham. — Last week Epunda lutulenta was pretty 

 plentiful on ivy here, but in very poor condition. I have 

 had one specimen of E. nigra, from pupa found under moss, 

 but have not seen it at ivy. Lichenea is most abundant, but 

 is now quite worn. Common things in great abundance. If 

 any coleopterist wants Dryops femorata, let him now speak, 

 as it is quite a plague here. — Edwin Roper-Curzon ; Park- 

 ham Wood, Brixham, Devon, October 10, 1871. 



Ento7nology at Lvngjield Rectory. — Selenia illunaria has 

 proved triple-brooded with me this year, an imago having 

 emerged on the 12th September from an eg^ laid in July ; it 

 was little more than a week in the pupa state. The rest of 

 the larvae are changing now ; it is very similar to the perfect 

 insects of the second brood. During the last week I have 

 taken two specimens of the plain variety of X. Cerago (X. fla- 

 vescens of Esper). C. Xerampelina was taken here at sugar, 

 on the 7th September. It is quite new to this neighbourhood. 

 That it should be found here at all is scarcely to be expected, 

 as the district is peculiarly dry and devoid of ash trees. — 

 [Rev.^ P. H. Jennings; Longfield Rectory, Gravesend, 

 September 20, 1871. 



Captures near Newcastle. — I have nothing of great 

 importance from this quarter to report. N. Elymi has 

 occurred in considerable numbers on the Durham coast, 

 near South Shields, upwards of fifty having been taken by 

 the different members of our Club, at rest on the sand-reed, 

 and flying at dusk. On account of the cold and wet spring 

 and summer — indeed we had no summer weather until the 

 last week in July — the hybernating larvse were very long in 

 feeding up. I found larvae of A. caja, scarcely one-fourth of an 

 inch in length, feeding on the coast on the 12th of July ; and 



