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seven were head downwards and fixed by the tail ; the pupce are 

 nothing like the rest of the family I have bred, being shaped like a 

 whip-top, and the old larval skin hanging like a long tail in every 

 case, — H. Alderson, Hilda Vale, Farnborough. 



Ulthcrslack. — Scotosia ?-ha!>i?iata is another addition to the Westmore- 

 land fauna ; Mr. Threlfall and I captured a few in July. We obtained 

 about 12 larvoe of Depressaria capreolella after several hours' careful 

 searching, and a few of the bladder-like mines oi PeriUia ohsairepiindella 

 in honeysuckle which I had never seen till Mr. Threlfall drew my at- 

 tention to them. — J. B. Hodgkinson, Ellerslie, Ashton-on-Ribble. 



Armagh. — The season up to the present has been most disappointing. 

 Sugar has, night after night, proved a complete failure owing to the 

 cold winds, and even favourable evenings failed to produce anything 

 remarkable. Araon,' my captures were : Hadena pisi, If. thalassina, 

 Noctiia ri/bi, JV. festiva, Gonoptera Ubati-ix, Gram?nesia Irigramniica, 

 and var. ohscura. Tutt, Mia/m strigilis and M. fasciuncula. These last 

 were not at all as abundant as usual, but exhibited considerable varia- 

 tion. The most were taken on June 22nd and 23rd. On July 3rd, I 

 took a specimen of M. strigilis on a thistle-head in the afternoon. 

 Zyg(Z7ta /i?;//V^;-^ appeared in numbers on June 27th, when I took a lot 

 of freshly-emerged specimens. The Fhisice, which are usually well 

 represented in my garden in June, were conspicuous by their absence ; 

 only a solitary P. ganwia turning up. On July 27th and 28th I took a 

 good number of Bryophila perla on the walls of the Cathedral. Just 

 now Triplicena promiba and Xylophasia 7nonoglypha are in great abund- 

 ance, a few dark examples of the latter have occurred. I have, I think, 

 never seen as many "small whites " in one place as I saw in a field of 

 oats on last Sunday morning, as I was driving out to take the duty at 

 I>oughgall. There must have been hundreds of them hovering over and 

 settling on the oats. I could not stop to determine whether one or 

 more species were present. Taken as a whole the season from the end 

 of May to the present has been decidedly bad, and were it not for the 

 consolations afforded by Coleoptera and golf, I should be on the verge 

 of despair. — W. F. Johnson, Winder Teraace, Armagh. August K^t/i, 

 1891. [The "whites " — Pieris rupee, napi and brassiccE — have been in 

 great force at Deal during the last week. — Ed.] 



Lyndhurst. — A fortnight spent at Lyndhurst last month produced far 

 better results than a longer period last season. Although the weather 

 was not a great deal better than during the corresponding period of 

 1890, lepidoptera were much more plentiful and some good species 

 were taken. Unfortunately, however, sugar was again of but little use, 

 and the list of Noctl'^ taken is consequently very meagre. During 

 the few fine days that we had, Rhopalocera swarmed. Limenitis sibylla 

 and Ar^yi77}is paphia were very common, and I took four specimens of 

 the var. valezina ; but although E. janira was as cjmmon as ever, I 

 only saw one of the bleached forms, and that did not exhibit the varia- 

 tion to any great degree. Lyccena cegoti was in full force on all the 

 heaths. I captured one extremely small $ , as small as a typical L. 

 alsus {fni/iima). Thecia (juercus was very common over oak and ash, 

 but mostly kept out of reach. The best butterfly that I took, however, 

 was Apaturn iris, of which I took two $ 's on July 26th ; one of these 

 after much coaxing deposited twenty-five ova which are now hatching. 



