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Aporia cratcegri in Kent. — In view of recent discussions with regard to the 

 increasing scarcity of this butterfly in Great Britain, it may be of interest to your 

 readers to know tliat I have received a letter from an entomologist (Mr. T. B. 

 Kingsford) now in Canada, but till recently resident in Kent, in which he tells me 

 that in the season of 1893 he met with Aporia cratmgi so freely that he could have 

 taken twenty or thirty specimens in a single day. Mr. Kingsford describes to me 

 the exact locality in which he found the butterfly ; but this, for obvious reasons, I 

 suppress. — Theouoee Wood, 23, Brodrick Road, Upper Tooting, S.W. : January 

 12th, 1897. 



Variation in Lyecena minima. — This species has frequently a vague trace of a 

 hind marginal series of compound spots ; one, at least, of the spots is usually distinct 

 enough to the unaided eye, and a weak lens will discover traces of more. At first 

 I thought these spots might be peculiar to Scotch examples, but it is evidently a 

 more generally distributed condition, as I find a Brighton specimen received from 

 Mr. Goss has them. This character has no doubt been already noticed, and probably 

 even recorded. I allude to it because I can find no reference to it in any of the 

 British descriptions or figures I can lay my hands on at the moment. — Kenneth J. 

 MoETON, Uddingston, N. B. : December 2lst, 1896. 



Lithocolletis cerasicolella, R.-S., in Kent. — Having found larvse of the above 

 species in this district, and bred moths from them, it may be of interest to record 

 the fact of its occurrence in the South of England. The mines are to be found 

 tolerably abundant in most woods throughout this part of the county, where the 

 food-plant {Prunus avium) occurs. The larvte, like many others of the genus, are 

 greatly infested with parasites, so that a large number collected often leads to most 

 unsatisfactory results from a Lepidopterist's point of view. It appears strange that 

 this moth should so long have been overlooked in a district so much worked as it 

 was and is by many keenly interested in the Tineina. — Benj. A. BoWEE, Lee, 

 Kent : January 20th, 1897. 



An unrecorded locality for Hesperia lineola, Ochs. — On the 13th of last July, 

 when on a pilgrimage after Micros to the saltings byCliffe Fort, I was struck, whilst 

 walking across the Cliffe Marshes, by the great quantities of some Hesperia ; these, 

 on examination, proved to be lineola, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say, 

 the majority proved to be, as there was a small percentage (about two) of linea and 

 sylvanus. The season being such an early one it was difficult at this date to obtain 

 fine specimens, though the worn condition might be principally owing to the perfect 

 struggle that was going on for possession of the few flowers yet remaining in bloom. 

 As this butterfly has been taken at Canvey Island and the Isle of Sheppey, it is not 

 surprising to find it in the Cliffe Marshes, the last two localities being very similar, 

 and only separated by the river Med way. — Id. 



Semarkable aberrations of Stigmonota dorsana, Fb., and Dichrorampha Feti- 

 verella, L. — Mr. P. B. Mason's collection contains a most striking aberration of 

 Stigmonota dorsana. The ordinai-y white blotch on the dorsal margin is merely 



