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frequently observed it in Wanstead Park, and in almost every
part of Epping Forest. Specimens gathered on fungi at the last-
Fungus Foray were submitted to Mr. J. W. Taylor.
Helix aculeata, common in Wanstead Park, is an addition to
Crouch's "List of the Mollusca of Beacontree Hundred." (E.N.
vol. iv.)—T. Petch, Leytonstone. 
INSECTS.
Leucophaea Surinamensis, Linn. in Essex.—This pretty
cockroach has occurred abundantly in a tan-pit adjoining the
greenhouses of a private garden between Chelmsford and
Bloomfield and is doing considerable harm to the pineapples,
orchids and other plants. In Mr. Burr's British Orthoptera,
published in 1897, the occurrence of two individuals at Bognor,
Sussex, and one at Kew, is mentioned, but Mr. Burr states that
"it hardly deserves to be called British until it is proved that it
actually breeds here." There is no doubt of its breeding in the
present locality, as it has been established for several years, and
the specimens brought to me are of every age and size from
recently hatched young to mature insects. The gardener who
submitted the specimens to me doss not know how they came,
but in the past few years numerous tropical plants have been
brought into the garden, and the cockroaches may have been
brought with one of them. I have sent specimens to the British
Museum collection, and my naming has been confirmed there,
and I am also sending specimens to the Essex Field Club
Museum,
Since writing the above, I hear from Mr. W. H. Harwood,
of Colchester, that about 30 specimens have recently been found
near Liverpool and Manchester.—E. Charles Horrell, F.L.S.,
County Laboratories, Chelmsford. [According to Burr, L.
surinamensis is a cosmopolitan species, being found throughout
the tropics, Brazil, Cayenne, Martinique, Senegal, China, Java
Philippines, Mexico, Central America, British Columbia, Burmah,
etc.—Ed.]
Vanessa Io, var. cyanostica, at St. Osyth.—This form,
which was first observed and named by the Rev. G. H. Raynor,
of Hazeleigh, differs from the normal io in the possession of a
single blue spot beneath the "peacock eye" on the hind-wings
of the butterfly. I netted many "Peacocks" at St. Osyth last