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of butterflies were Bearly always iu sight at once, the grass and under- 

 wood abounded in small Noctuce {Erastria, &c.) and Pyrales, beautiful 

 little CataclysfcB and Hydroeampas swarmed at the edges of the streams, 

 queer -shaped Hemipfei-a were constantly found, the variety of 

 Kymenoptera would have charmed Mr. Smith, and as for Coleoptera, 

 there was no attempting them at all. My companions were constantly 

 dragging me on with them, which w^as a good deal against entomo- 

 logizing, but one of them gave some attention to the ferns, and was 

 perpetually going into raptures over fresh discoveries ; I forgot how 

 many species he collected, something remarkable I know. As for the 

 country itself, there is no attempting to describe it: waterfalls and cas- 

 cades in every variety and of all heights, from 4 to 400 feet, the 

 highest one 420 feet by accurate measurement ; woods, ravines, hill 

 sides, rocks, valleys, cultivated ground or hill tops ; and everyw^here 

 profuse and luxuriant vegetation, rhododendrons, wistarias, and fifty 

 other flow^ers all being in full bloom, the azaleas in particular were in 

 such profusion as to appear one mass of colour when seen from a 

 distance. Two days here only, and I had to return to Shanghai, laden 

 with spoil. I had been capturing insects right and left at random, 

 and on going over my boxes carefully, found many more species than 

 I had any idea I had got. 



The fondly cherished hope of once more visiting this beautiful 

 and prolific region has never yet been realized. 



London : June, 1877. 



NOTES ON THE BRITISH SPECIES OF BLENNOCAMPA. 

 BT P. CAMEKOX. 



Having to describe two new British species of Blennocampa, I 

 think it will be as well to enumerate at the same time all the native 

 species of that genus, so far as they are known to me, and I do so the 

 more especially as the previous lists contain many errors. In Blenno- 

 campa, I include Hartig's section Monophadnus, as I do not consider 

 the only character in which it differs from Blennocamp)a — the possession 

 of a medial cell in the posterior wings — sufiicicnt to raise it to generic 

 rank ; and, moreover, in some of the species the females have a medial 

 cell and the males none, so that the one sex would belong to Mono- 

 phadnus and the other to Blennocampa. 



1. Assimilis, Fallen, = hyalina, Klug. 



2. Betideti, Klug. This species has been bred by Mr. J. E. 

 Fletcher, of Worcester, from a larva which fed externally on birch. 



