160 THE entomologist's record. 



being unable to revisit the spot, I had to be content with a very short 

 series, but in fine condition. I may here add that it is a real pleasure 

 to me, in these days of alterations in so many old "happy hunting 

 grounds " beloved by the old collectors, to be able to confirm one ot" the 

 old li calities given in our useful and standard work Newman's British 

 Butterflies, which, if re-edited and altered to suit the extinction of many 

 old localities, and, what is more pleasant to record, the discovery of 

 many new ones, would be of much greater interest at the present day. 

 I lived in hopes of seeing a stray Hesperia paniscus in the miscellaneous 

 series sent me from Wychwood, on the faith of Newman's localities, 

 but my own experience is to the effect that it does not now exist there. 

 ]\Iy own first visit was to Guernsey (June ist), where, however, owing to 

 business, I was unable to do any collecting for a few days. I soon, 

 however, discovered my previous locality for Ale/itcea cinxia, and in 

 several visits secured a fine series, including a good var., as noted in the 

 Record, vol. ii., p. 87. I was told later on that this species was rather 

 more plentiful than usual this season in the Isle of ^Vight, in a very 

 restricted locality on the coast near St. Catherine's Point. I did not go 

 across although in the island at the time, as I trust the temporary 

 cessation of the too close attention of the collector, may result in its 

 establishing a more firm footing again on this side. Sugar was very 

 attractive during June in Guernsey, we always worked flower-heads, 

 which, in my own experience, especially near the sea, prove more 

 attractive than the old tree trunks, and to me, very naturally so. The 

 only rarities, however, were five specimens of a Caradritia, similar to 

 those already recorded by me as C. ainbigiia from Guernsey and the 

 Isle of Wight {Record, vol. i., p. 249). These I have not yet had the 

 opportunity of submitting to Mr. Tutt. Two were taken i6th June, 

 two 1 8th June, and the last a day or so later, when accompanied by Mr. 

 W. A. Luff. The other species were Noctua pkcia, N. riibi, Agrotis puta, 

 Miana strigilis, and many commoner species. During this visit I also 

 found a new locality for Procris statices, which, in Mr. Luff's experience, 

 shifts its quarters by short distances every season, as noted by Miss 

 Kimber in our June No. (p. 89). It had a most strange liking for the 

 steeper parts of the cliffs, here covered by a mass of blossom principally 

 large dog-daisies, and is, in its habits of flight, very similar to the 

 " Burnets." Although not very bright weather, the species was not so 

 sluggish as they, and was not altogether easy to capture, owing to the 

 face of the cliffs being so very steep. I was disappointed in not taking 

 a series of JVo/a cofi/usa/is, which I met with the previous season in Sark, 

 and although unable to visit that island, I had hoped to find it in 

 Guernsey; my take was, however, confined to a single specimen. 



We arrived in the Isle of W^ight, June 20th, and during the ensuinr 

 week I think I got more thorough wettings than ever before, in fact, I 

 got to regard a heavy storm as the usual adjunct to an evening in the 

 woods. These proved fatal to the condition of the very delicate little 

 Acidalia eviutaria, which, in the best of weather, is apt to get worn 

 almost the first evening. They were plentiful, however, on the marsh 

 with the usual embarrassing numbers of the commoner Geometers, such 

 as lodis lactearia, etc. During that week I also netted a pair of PJiiba- 

 lapieryx ligtiata. Sugar now began to fail, although for the first few 

 nights Xylophasia hepatica appeared in plenty, with Aplecia fiebalosa, of 



