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Spilosoma. Mr. Bentley bought the specimen of denudatus* of The Entomologi- 

 cal Transactions, at the sale of the late Mr. Haworth. Penthrophera nigricans, 

 I had found previously two larva? enclosed in cases, which I suspected to belong to 

 this species, and I found one, August, 1835, on Parley Heath, which, not having 

 bred the spring following, I cut open, and found it had changed to a pupa, but had 

 died ; which I attribute to the shaking it got on my returning home, on horseback, 

 a distance of nearly thirty miles. I hope to ascertain more, against another time, 

 about this curious insect. Lobophera polycommata, one taken near Sparkford Inn, 

 Somerset, end of February, 1832. In the Linnean Cabinet there is a very large 

 specimen of Papilio Podalirius,\ I believe, from North America. Dr. Abbot 

 mentions, in his MSS., having taken Pontia Raphani near Bedford, August 6, 

 1799. I bought his collection, but I cannot make out which specimen he means 

 by it, as there is a variety of Napi and one of Callidice with the name of glacialis 

 on it. In the Linnean Cabinet I observed a Hipparchia, with a ticket, on which 

 is " Angl., Hudson, rariss :" mixed with three or four more under the name Arca- 

 nius ; but the one with the ticket has certainly nothing to do with Arcanius, and 

 is either a variety of Davus or Polydama, and probably from the neighbourhood 

 of Bala Lake, or Pemble Meer. The ? of Lyccena argiolus taken in the 

 spring, have a narrow black tip to the superior wings ; that in the autumn, very 

 broad. Hesperia comma, taken as early as July 22nd, 1835, on the Blandford 

 race course. 



Diptera. — Cecidomya pictipennis I have found as early as February 10th, 

 in 1832, on moss, and roots, &c, of Whitethorn. Anisomera ? nigra, a spe- 

 cies with very long antennae (especially the $ ) found at Kenfig Pool, South 

 Wales, by the late Captain Blomer, 1832. Leptomorphus Walheri, found dead 

 in a window, at Blandford. Messala Saundersii I took at Glanville Wootton, 

 this spring. Oxycera Leonina : the Rev. F. O. Morris gave me a J , and July 

 9th last I took a <? at Charmouth. Oxycera Morrisii, I took one of, at Backs- 

 bite, near Cambridge, June, 1833 ; which is the only locality I know of, besides 

 the neighbourhood of Charmouth. Medeterus conspersus, on a boggy part of 

 Lewel Heath, near Dorchester, 1835. CEstrus pictus : on the 31st of last July, in 

 passing through some high fern near Rufus's stone, in the New Forest, two insects 

 settled before me on the fern, which I missed taking, owing to the stems of the 

 fern meeting the net. I thought, at the time, they were the CEstrus pictus. The 

 next day, however, one came and settled before me on some dry leaves, near Lynd- 

 hurst, which I captured. It varies a little from Mr. Curtis's figure, having the 

 centre of the thorax tawny. Mr. Samouelle's specimen (figured by Curtis) was 

 taken in June. 



* Mr. Raddon has a foreign specimen of denudatus. 



f Mr. Curtis has figured Podalirius on plate 578 of his British Entomology. 



