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Abundance of the LAEViE of Acheroistia atropos. — About seventy 

 A. atrojios lai'VfB have fallen to my share. The "Potato-diggers" 

 bring them to me. Many, of course, are dead or dying, but I have 

 50-60 healthy pupte. — Ibid. 



Butterflies at Skibbereen. — All our common butterflies were, I 

 think, decidedly earlier than is usual, except perhaps Pi/mmns atalanta, 

 which was remarkably late and scarce, unlike 1898, when it swarmed, 

 and P. cardiU was here, as I believe everywhere else, totally absent. 

 — J. J. Wolfe, Skibbereen, co. Cork. Sept., 1896. 



Leucania impudens in the New Forest. — I was sugaring at 

 Ranmore, in the New Forest, on the night of June 24th, and captured 

 a specimen of L. iwpudens (pudorina). I was much surprised to find 

 the species there, as I had never taken it before except in Wicken Fen, 

 a damp place, whereas this was captured upon a clay hill, and I do 

 not know of any reeds near. I found all the insects in the New Forest 

 very early and plentiful ; some very nice aberrations of Limenitis dhtjlla 

 B,nd J >i!/:is f Ann/unisJ paphia were taken, the aih. ralesina being also 

 fairly plentiful. — W. J. Cross, Ely. [The New Forest is an old lo- 

 cality for L. hnpiideiis, see Brit. ]Soctuae and their Varieties, vol. i., 

 p. 36.— Ed.] 



Collectors and Chattenden Woods. — On p. 83 of the Kntomnlo- 

 f/ist's Record there is a statement as to professional collectors in Chat- 

 tenden Woods. Lord Darnley has as strong an objection to the dealer 

 who makes a business of it as the Entomological Society of London 

 can have ; but the difficulty is to know him from the scientific 

 amateur, and I do not know how to exclude one without the other. 

 If you or your society can inform me who the offenders are, their 

 passes will not be renewed. — C. H. Scriven, Agency Office, Thong, 

 Gravesend. Juh/ 21.st, 1896. 



A WEEK AT Lyndhurst. — I Spent a week at Lyndhurst at the end 

 of May, but not a very successful one. ylpatura iris had not put in 

 an appearance ; Tate's usual beating of the sallows producing but two, 

 so that was not good enough to set me sallow-beating. Macro(/lossa 

 bombi/lifarinis (narrow border) was really over, the four we saw being 

 badly worn, (reometra papiliimaria had evidently spun up, and out 

 of our way, whilst Scodiona beUjiaria were going over, being neither 

 plentiful nor in good condition. On the other side, Boiubyx trifolii 

 was more plentiful than usual, and Cleora (jlabraria worth looking 

 for.— E. A. Bowles, M.A., F.E.S. Sept., 1896. 



Collecting in the Reading distkict. — The season has been 

 fairly successful. On some nights, moths were plentiful at the sallows, 

 but of the usual common order. I except one Dasijcampa rubiijinea, 

 taken by a friend. At the same time, Taeniocampa iiiunda, etc., came 

 freely to sugar. Asjihalia jinvicornis also was very abundant at rest 

 on the twigs of birch underwood. Stauropus fagi has turned up 

 again in some numbers, the first being taken as early as April 26th, 

 and it continued until well into June. The second brood was also 

 bred in July by a friend. Aeontia luctuosa was more than usually 

 abundant in May. On the other hand, Sesia ■sphef/ifonnis was 

 exceedingly scarce. A friend and myself spent three or four days 

 working for it at Whitsun, and only obtained six between us, and, 

 although we had a couple of virgin females, we only assembled one 

 male. By working oak stumps that had been cut two years, I obtained 



