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Lepidoptera. — Vanessa C. album. — I observed this insect here on April 

 22, this year, for the first time since October, 1816, when, and prior, it was always 

 in great profusion in the autumn. 



Thecla pruni. — I found at Monk's Wood, Huntingdonshire, as, also, 



Thecla W. album, in a wood at the same place, separated merely by a turn- 

 pike road from the former, but each seemed confined to its own wood. 



Lyc&na Corydon. — I took this insect last year, on a heath in the New 

 Forest. 



Lyccena agestis. — I took a specimen of the variety of this insect, which re- 

 sembles the L. salmacis, on the 5th of August, near Lyme Regis, where Messrs. 

 Queckett and Paul took two others, also, in the beginning of August : all three 

 were females. 



Acherontia atropos — I am informed by Mr. 13. Morris, that he found, in 

 September, 1835, at Charmouth, a larva of this insect, similar to the figure of it 

 in Fuessly's Archives, and like the one observed by Captain Blomer, which I 

 mentioned in my paper, in the 1st number of the present publication.* 



Agrotis nebulosa. — But two or three specimens of this insect were known 

 until captured this season by Mr. Raddon, on the Burrows of Appledore, Devon- 

 shire. 



Catocola promissa. — I found the wings of this insect at Glanvilles Wootton, 

 on the 13th of July, this year, and this is the first indication I have observed of 

 its existence here. 



Catocola Fraxini.-^-! possess a specimen of this which was taken at Cran- 

 borne, Dorsetshire, about fifty or sixty years ago. 



Charissa pullaria. — On the 5th of August, this year, I took this insect, both 

 typical and varying from dull white to a pale black, and so much resembling a 

 variety of C. obscuraria, that I feel convinced these, as well as the C. dilucida- 

 ria and C. serotinaria are all* varieties of one and the same species. 



Siona dealbata. — On the 27th and 29th of June of the present year, I took 

 a couple of specimens at the Caundle Holts, and it was taken at Langport, in 

 abundance, by Messrs. Queckett, Paul, and Serrell. 



Scopula ferrugalis. — I took on the 2nd and 8th of November, 1828. The 

 late Captain Blomer found it, also, in November : but Samouelle gives June as 

 the time of its appearance. 



Scopula longipedalis. — The late Captain Blomer took this at Teignmouth, 

 Devon ; and I have taken lately a couple of specimens at Lulworth and Torquay. 



place for forming its nest — such as the shell of a Snail. We also know that this species 

 will form its cells amongst heaps of Oyster-shells or accumulations of garden rubbish, 

 ltobineau Desvoidy, and other French Entomologists, have observed similar habits in spe- 

 cies of Osmia, whence one is named Osmia helices Eds. 



* This is a variety produced, probably, by disease, or the infestation of a Trogus. Eds. 



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