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Among the Micro-Lepido'ptera I have met with many species at Sutton. T may 

 enumerate X. hamana and zcegana flying over flowers at dusk, together with 

 L. Francillana ; JR. lunaris abundantly on one row of palings, and its congener, 

 wnitella, sparingly in the same situation; A. Lundana, very darkly marked; 

 Cerostoma, vittella, and some few specimens of N. aurella on palings ; H. padellus 

 and evonymellns also on palings ; D. areneJla and angelicella flying in the evening; 

 Catoptria ScnpoJiana on flowers ; and T. cloaceUa in the garden at rest. 



At Box Hill, and in the " Hilly Field," I met with numerous species ; in fact 

 I found the Lepidoptera better represented there than elsewhere. A. gilvaria was 

 out in considerable numbers, and was, as usual, very wild in the net ; Polyommatus 

 Agestis occurred on the top of one of the slopes, and P. comma was so abundant 

 that two or three specimens might be seen hovering over one flower. Linea, on 

 the contrary, was very scarce. G. Rhamni, of which a fine specimen, settled on a 

 flower, is scarcely to be resisted, was common. I chased a good many of these 

 splendid fellows, and captured one as the result of a good many rapid charges. 

 My friend, Mr. E. M. Geldart, who was with me at the time, was no more proof 

 against bright yellow wings than I. Once, indeed, he did so " furiously charge 

 and mightily revolve " that I, who was in among the preserves, hearing the rushing 

 of his downward course, concluded that a keeper was pressing him sore ; and, like 

 Adam, hid myself in the bushes. After Rhamni we met with omata in very 

 beautiful condition. The pretty little P. aspersana was rather common among the 

 short grass ; and, up on Mickleham Downs, we fell in with D. ■ung^licl^la. 



Of vai-ious other captures I may note P. lithodactylus in very fine condition at 

 Epsom ; H. velleda rather commonly on walls about Ambleside ; E. hipunctaria in 

 various chalky localities ; Eudorea cemhrce about Sutton. 



In the earlier part of the year I had a very pleasant excursion into savage 

 parts of Essex with my friend. Dr. Battershell Gill, the presence of Aleucis pictaria 

 compensating, in some measure, for the wildness of the inhabitants, who appear to 

 resist civilization manfuUy. One barbarian, whom we engaged to drive us across 

 four or five miles of rough country at ten o'clock on a dark night, I never heard 

 equalled for droll sayings. Unfortunately his high spirits and run of playful hu- 

 mour were attributable to a lengthened visit at the village inn ; and he, persisting 

 in the necessity of charging along at full gallop, held us in bodily fear by terrible 

 joltings. 



The great heat and absence of rain appear to have operated unfavourably on 

 the Lepidoptera of this district. I have already noticed a great scarcity of many 

 species. — J. B. Blackburn. 



Nutea Oil Oryyia gonustigma. — Some larvae taken at Wimbledon, August 29th, 

 1863, passed the winter under the cover and protection of a loose web on the 

 under side of the leaves of their food-plant (oak). On the 11th April, 1864, they 

 began to move out of winter quarters, and were supplied with forward sprigs of 

 oak, the buds of which they consumed. The larvae were full fed and all in cocoon 

 by May 20th. The first imago, a (J , appeared June 6th ; on the 7th, a pair were 

 in cop>uld, and soon after the deposition of the eggs began ; these hatched on 25th 

 June, and the young larvae were supplied witli Sallovj, which they readily took to; 



