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Burnley, on April 10th and 2;{r(l, Lanntia )iinltistn)ian'a wei'e plentiful, 

 some of them bein.tf much darker than usual, one 2 in particular 

 being nearly as dark as the Huddersfield form. Daring the early 

 spring, common larvfe were abundant at night, Noctiia .rantltoi/rapha 

 and Xi/loii/tasia rurea being especially plentiful, from the latter, in early 

 July, I bred a nice variable series, the dark and light forms being 

 about equally divided. On May 14th, a fine P/iarctra nnnicis ab. 

 salifis emerged, the larva being from Halifax. On June 12th, two 

 Md(ini/ipr iinnitanaUi emerged from Whitby larvM\ one (piite ordinary, 

 l)ut the other, although the markings were normal, had the band filled 

 in with light brown, thus, in some degree, resembling the Shetland 

 forms. A very large Plitsia into, emerging on July 10th, was light- 

 pinkish in colour, and had the spots united as in /-•. nannna. From 

 July IGth to 19th 1 was in Dumfries, and took, among other things, 

 1 'idi/niiimatits var. arta.irr.ces, on the moors, and, at dusk, Jloaniiia 

 ijenimaria var. perfuinaria, and Plati/ptilia nr/iroilactiila (? pallidacti/la, 

 Ed.). On the 30th, at Burnley, I took my first plume here, n'z., 

 I'latiiptilia noniHlartijla, also three (.'rainhim tiistdlua. On August 

 8rd, two ( 'ali/iiinia trapezina appeared in the breeding-cage, one the 

 very light form, while the other is dark, having the appearance of 

 Iteing mottled with purple; both larvji? were taken at Doncaster. 

 l"'.arly in May, I took larvse at Lytham which were quite new to me, but 

 on their emerging on August 25th-26th they proved to be Kpnwhi 

 lirlii'nca of a very tine dark green form, quitt* different from my other 

 specimens which were from Portland. ( 'cloeiia hairorthii. were very 

 plentiful and fine on September 17th, but I did not get a single 

 < )p(,rabia filiiiiaiiniiaria. From a few larvi^ taken here in September, 

 several I'lp-aineis atalanta emerged, the last one on October 18th, 

 being abnormal in only having one of the antennre developed. — 

 W. O. Clutten, 132, Coal C'lough Lane, Burnley. 



Insects on the Fife coast. — This year I spent the month of 

 August upon the coast of Fife. Although I did not get anything very 

 extraordinary, yet my ''take" was not uninteresting. I had, before 

 that time, collected a little during July in Scotland, and had given up 

 the idea of getting anything worthy of preservation. All I had got 

 previously were one Abra.ras iironsnlariata, half-a-dozen I'iciis hrassii-ar, 

 and a number of Laiciitia iliili/iiiata. One insect I got I must not forget 

 to mention. I came to Scotland by steamer, and when about three 

 miles from the ]>erwickcoast, I took a fine female Mi'lonip/u' jbirtuata. I 

 arrived in Fife amid a downpour of rain, which, as evening approached, 

 moderated, and allowed me to get out. I went for a walk to spy out 

 likely localities, and was soon amid rest-harrow looking for Hfliot/iis 

 innltra {iiiariiiiioti(s). A few larvje of the green form were soon turned 

 up, but, being so miserably small, .were left. Next day was another 

 useless day, for the wind blew a hurricane. However, as I was resting 

 upon a hillside, a small butterfly Hew past, which, resting for a while 

 on a dandelion flower, allowed me to get close enough to see that it was 

 a specimen of ( 'npida niiiiinia. l^ncouraged by this, 1 examined all 

 likely and unlikely plants, to see whether or not others were at rest. 

 I had almost given up searching in disgust, when I took hold of a 

 head of < 'ain/KuiKla i/lDinciata, upon which I found, to my delight, a 

 male specimen of I'lilydinwatns var. arta.rfr.irs. As the species was 

 over almost a fortnight before, in Durbanj, 1 never expected to find it. 



