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localities that have been thoroughly worked are some of those on the 

 South Coast, a fair proportion of the Lake District, and a few which 

 have been made famous by some well-known resident entomologist, or 

 have been patiently and carefully searched by such a worker as Mr. 

 Greene, or Archdeacon Bree, or Mrs. Hutchinson (I purposely avoid 

 mention of those still living), the number of whom probably does not 

 amount altogether to a couple of dozen. This is a long digression, 

 but I hope not a useless one, for it touches upon a point which is 

 rarely, if ever, appreciated at its true value. 



One other locality 1 must mention, namely, Burmington, to which 

 I referred Just now. This is a very small village some six miles from 

 Moreton going by Todenham, or about seven by Wolford. During the 

 one summer that I lived there, having several elm-trees in the garden 

 and a small orchard attached to it, I sugared almost every evening, 

 and though unfortunately in those days I made but few notes, and 

 those few are not now at hand, one or two of the results seem 

 of sufficient interest to mention ; for although that particular 

 spot is not available, yet others in the neighbourhood would 

 doubtless produce the same species. The Cosinii'lae were specially 

 abundant, Calyimiia trapezina, of course, in great variety, but both 

 C. affinis and C. diffims were frequent in the garden ; all the genus 

 Xylophasia again, except I believe X. hepatica, were there, either at 

 sugar or at light, A", monoglyplia was of course the commonest, but 

 neither X. lithnxylea nor A", stiblustris could be regarded as scarce. At 

 light of course Spilosoma vientlmstri was the commonest of all species, 

 and frequently became such a nuisance that the specimens had to be 

 caught and put into an empty jug (to be turned out when I turned in), 

 but next to this by far the commonest species was Hadena oleracea ; 

 several others of this genus were also in evidence. There was a hedge 

 on the right hand side of the narrow road leading from Burmington 

 to Willington which was a favoured haunt of the Plusiids at dusk. 

 Both species of Habrostola and Pliisia iota, P. pnlchrina and P. 

 chryutis were abundant, P. yaiiuiia needs no special mention, and 

 there were many Geometers, not all by any means common, to be 

 obtained in the same place. The hedge at the left-hand side of the 

 hill leading up from Midford Bridge to Burmington was another good 

 spot, but here I only mention the abundance of Scotosia vetidata which 

 it yielded, because I never happen to have come across the species 

 elsewhere. I have not now at hand the means to attempt even an 

 approximately correct list of the species found in this prolific neigh- 

 bourhood, but if it should at any time (next Christmas for example) 

 come about that my brother and I can work one out together, by 

 means of my notes, and his, and my father's which are in his possession,, 

 and which were made in his interleaved copy of Wood's Index 

 EntomuloyicnH, it might prove not without interest to do so, and T shall 

 then hope to publish it. 



Mr. Tutt's Views regarding Mimicry. 



By LiEUT.-CoL. N. MANDERS, F.R.M.C, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



This note is somewhat belated, but my excuse must be that I have 

 just returned from a trip to Java and found among a pile of corres- 

 pondence the number of the Record devoted to its late Editor. 



I think it would be of interest to most entomologists to know 



