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on May 28tb, and on June 3rd was quite common. Altogether I and 

 my two lads captured 200 fine specimens. A second brood api^eared 

 in the middle of iVugust but was less numerous than the earlier brood. 

 I captured Vanessa jjoh/cMoros at sugar in my garden, and met with 

 Meh'taea artemis in small uumbei's on the top of the chalk hills, a strange 

 place for this butterfly ; I presume, however, that it feeds on the scabious, 

 which is plentiful there. I met with single specimens of Melananfia 

 (jalafhaea near Wendover, and on several occasions at Chinnor ; the 

 capture of solitary specimens of gregarious species seems to me worth 

 recording. Pantphila comma was more abundant that I had ever previously 

 noticed it ; it evidently has a wide range in both Oxon and Bucks. In 

 the latter county I observed Tno geri/on in thousands during May ; they 

 were accomjjanied by Lijcaena minima, which in one place was in 

 immense profusion. Mameslra ahjecta, occurred sparingly at sugar ; I 

 captured it in my own garden. Colias ednsa was very common at 

 Orchard Woods, Taunton, in August, and at tlie same place I took 

 several Thechi betnlae at rest upon blackthorn hedges. — A. J. Spili-er, 

 Helston. 



Soutliampton. — After a still, hot day in June, at 10.45 p.m., I 

 placed an ordinary duplex lamp in a room on the first floor of a liouse 

 in the outskirts of this town, which was a long Ava^' from any wood or 

 real country, and then threw up the window. Returning at 11. lo 

 p.m. I found that moths had already begun to arrive, and for the next 

 two hours the}^ gave me plenty of employment. I captured 36 speci- 

 mens, representing the following species : — Lcmania 2>allens, Caradrina, 

 cubicularis (qiiadripiinctata), Hccatera serena, ApJecta adoena (1), Hadena 

 denfina, H. chenopodii (trifolii), H. oleracea, Cncullia uinbratica, rinsia 

 chri/sitis, Acididia imitaria, A. aversata, Enpitliexia pumilata, Coremia 

 unidentaria, Cidaria dotata (associata), CJiesias ohliquaria (rufata) 1. — J. 

 C. MoBEULY, 9, Rockstone Place, Southampton. Jannanj 2dth, 1894. 



Dorking. — On Oct. 2nd, 1893, I was fortunate enough to ca})ture a 

 good specimen of Lencaiiia alhipuacta at ivy ; the date is noteworthy, 

 as it is six to eight weeks later than those of the captures recorded by 

 Mr. Hodges and Mr. Prout {Eat. Bee, vol. iv., pp. 253 and 279). I 

 may say that Mr. Hodges has seen and identified my specimen. — Thos. 

 W. King, Dorking. 



Kings Lynn. — I took 4 sjDecimens of Halonota ravulana last year, 

 as against 3 in 1892. — E. A. Atmore, King's Lynn. Januarij, 1894. 



CoLEoPTERA AT IpswiuH IN 1893. — The drought of tlie past season 

 affected Coleo})tera to a much less extent than was the case with Lepi- 

 doptera. Seeing this would probably be the case, I decided to collect 

 the latter during the hours of darkness only and so devote the whole 

 of the daylight to the pursuit of the former. There is little doubt 

 that the number of British coleopterists is scarcelj' half* that of our 

 lepidopterists, but why this should be the case is not easy to determine. 

 I have never in any one year taken more than 950 specimens (254 

 species) of Lepidoptera, and that was many years ago, Avhen I was a 

 beginner and '• everything was rare ; " whilst in 1893, 1 captured 1,352 

 specimens (350 s^jecies) of Coleoptera. The following record of my 



* This appears to be a very high estimate, if we may judge from the 

 proportionate number of records made respectively by coleopterists and 

 lepidopterists. — Ed. 



