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many Angleshades, Mouse Moths, Orange Underwings, etc., etc. olst. Y. 

 lo, (Peacock,) and G. album, (Comma.) 



September 2nd. A. naff una, (Dark Sword-grass;) 4th. P. Pyramided, 

 (Copper Underwing;) 8th* G. cubicularis, (Pale Mottled Willow,) A. iuno&a, 

 (Lunar Underwing,) A. litura, (Brown Pinion-spot,) 0. macilenta, (?) Z. 

 cerago, (Light Sallow;) 17th. Z. silayo, (Barred Sallow,) N. typica, (Dark 

 Gothic,) X. rujina, ? (Flounced Rustic,) M. oxyacanthoe, (Green- brindled 

 Crescent,) Angleshades, Lunosa, Litura, Suffusa, and Ferruginea in abun- 

 dance. 21th. Piotea, (Brindled Green;) 26th. II. achatinaria, (the Chevron.) 



October 4th. M. oxyacantha?, very abundant; Ath. V. atalanta, (Red Ad- 

 miral;) 10th. G. spadicea, (Dark Chesnut,) Satalitia, Red-lined and Common 

 Quaker, and G. nigrum, common. 12th. Exoleta. 



The above is a very useful list, both as regards the flies themselves, and as a guide to 

 their contemporaries. — F. 0. Moiuus. 



NOTICE OP THE 

 DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA IN MY NEIGHBOURHOOD. 



BY MR. GEORGE STOCKLEY. 



I have always thought local lists of insects to be of great value, as 

 by that means entomologists living at distant and various parts may each 

 know the species peculiar to certain districts, which, without, many would not 

 have the means of ascertaining; consequently, if they should at any time 

 visit those localities, much valuable time might be lost in not knowing 

 where to look for species in their proper places. 



The above is my apology for sending the following, hoping it may prove 

 useful to some of your entomological readers. 



First, a word or two about my neighbourhood; Wanstead, with the sur- 

 rounding district of Hainault Forest, is the locality which I include in the 

 above term, which, though I do not live there, still the many happy rambles 

 I have enjoyed in its wools will certainly entitle me to call it so. The 

 district mostly consists of a gravelly or sandy soil, the former place especially, 

 while the latter forest is in many places very boggy; in summer these 

 boggy places are a favourite resort for the Argynis euphrosyne and Tha- 

 naos tages. The trees consist in the Wanstead portion mostly of limes, 

 elms, whitethorns, and oaks; those in the Hainault portion being mostly 

 hornbean and oak. 



Gonepteryx rhamni. — Common in all parts in spring and summer. 



Colias edusa. — Saw one specimen on the wing near Canhall lane in 

 August some years back. 



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