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conld not fiucl Arion, but came across other kinds of larvse 

 very acceptable to Mr. Buckler. 



Last year a friend in Kent brought home from Cornwall 

 some jji^tches of thyme with Arion larvse on it, hoping to find 

 them live through the winter. This spring he w^as looking 

 forward to see the hybernated larvse (which we understand 

 has been found on the continent) feeding on the new shoots 

 of the food plant, when one day the vrretched cats destro3^ed 

 the 3'oung thyme and his hopes. Again he has visited 

 Cornwall this season, and sav/ eggs deposited on thyrne^ 

 which have been safely brought home to Kent, and we trust 

 his laudable efforts will be crowned with success and his 

 great desire to obtain figures of full-grown larvse and pupse 

 be accomplished. He tells me that some of the best Arion 

 ground in Cornwall is enclosed and about to be ploughed. 



Mr. J. T. Stephens, jun., of London, w^ho has, with his 

 brothers and sisters, collected Lepidoptera here this year 

 during August and September, at my request sent me a list 

 of their butterfly captures during those two months. This 

 list of the Painswick district species (which I give later on) 

 is of much interest to me, since, owing to my inability 

 to get about as I formerly did, I have not of late years 

 seen several of the butterflies he mentions, although I used 

 to take them all, besides others, in the same localities. 

 This will be seen by referring to the list of Grloucester 

 Lepidoptera published in Witchell and StrugnelFs Fauna 

 and Flora of Gloucestershire ^ where I have attempted to 

 show the records of all the Grloucestershire observers I could 

 then obtain, showing 58 species to have been observed in 

 our county out of the 67 of the British list ; and it may be 

 of interest to add that 588 species of Macro-Lepidoptera 

 are there recorded for Gloucestershire, out of the British 

 total of 823. 



