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$ s were fairly common, some in fine condition, the ^s mostly worn, 

 but I took one <? very fine, and the darkest I have ever seen, whilst 

 one very pale ? had the ocellated spots on the underside of a brown 

 coloration. Poli/oiinnati(n hellart/Ks were not in anything like the numbers 

 they were last year, but the ? s were mostly dusted with blue, more so 

 than last year. Fi/nimtin rardui, however, was fairly common, and 

 Flnxia f/ainvia everywhere. — W. E. Butler, Hayling House, Oxford 

 Road, Reading. September lS)th, 1902. 



Manduca atropos in the North Sea. — A specimen of Manduca 

 (Acherontia) atropos was captured by the mate of the ss. Neiman, on a 

 voyage from Leith to Hamburg ; it flew on board when the vessel was 

 about 20 miles east of the May Island. — T. Hudson Beare, F.E.S., 

 10, Regent Terrace, Edinburgh. September 2%id, 1902. 



Note on Hepialus lupulinus. — On June 9th last, whilst searching 

 at midday in a partially shaded spot in Hazeleigh Wood, for larvfe of 

 Arm/nn is adippe, I was surprised to see a specimen of H. lupidinus buzzing 

 about in the gleams of sunshine, keeping close to the ground. Subse- 

 quently I noticed three or four others behaving in exactly the same way. 

 So far as I could make oiit they were not attracted by a female, but were 

 flying naturally. I have never before seen this species on the move in 

 the daytime, although, of course, it flies at very early dusk. — (Rev.) 

 G. H. Raynor, M.A., Hazeleigh Rectory, Maldon, Essex. 



Lasiocampa QUERctJs AT Abaxia. — The observations on Lasiocaiupa 

 qiierriis in British Leiddoptera, vol. iii., remind me that at Abaxia, near 

 Fiume, on the Adriatic, last year (1901), I saw the males in numbers, 

 dashing about in the early afternoon, somewhere about the third week 

 in August. — F. Merrifield, F.E.S., 24, Vernon Terrace, Brighton. 

 September Uth, 1902. 



Melanargia galathea at Painswick. — In the third week of August 

 last I spent a few days at Painswick, Gloucestershire, and found 

 Melanariiia f/alathea the commonest butterfly there; it was all over the 

 hills, south and east of the town, not in grassy meadows where I have 

 usually found it. — Ibid, 



Partial second brood of Notodonta dromedarius and Larentia 

 pectinitaria. — From ova laid by a female Notodonta dromedarius taken 

 at Tilgate Forest on June 28th, one of the larvas which pupated 

 produced a fine female insect on August 4th. Larentia pectinitaria ova 

 from Tilgate in June, produced two imagines in September, a male on 

 the 18th, and a female on the 19th. They were both undersized though 

 from good larv». — J. C. Dolljian, Hove House, NeAvton Grove, Bedford 

 Park.' September 25th, 1902. 



Agrius convolvuli at Wick. — It may be worth while mentioning 

 that during a few weeks' collecting in and around Wick and neigh- 

 bouring villages, I came across a female specimen of A<jrius conrolndi 

 on September 8rd, 1902, lying on a path near Wick. It was badly 

 damaged by being trodden upon, but, judging by the condition of the 

 fringes on its wings, it had not flown much. Is not this rather far 

 north for this insect in September ? — David Rosie, 163, Hampstead 

 Road, Benwell, Newcastle-on-Tyne. September 24«/(, 1902. 



Colias edusa at Dorking. — As this does not appear to be an 

 " ediisa " year, it is perhaps proper to report that I took a female 

 specimen in good condition to-day at Dorking. — T. A. Chapman, 

 Betula, Reigate. September 21th, 1902. 



