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abundance of arenella, suh-propinqvella, Alstrcemeriana, and applana. On the 

 summit of St. Boniface Downs, above the town, I took long and beautiful series of 

 umhellana and costosa, the former from the stacks of dry heath, the latter 

 from the growing: heath itself. In this latter situation too a few purpurea occurred. 



Wien, at last, I grew tired of getting the same species over and over again, 

 I thought of the neighbourhood of Appuldurcombe, the beautifiil mansion of 

 Mr. Williams, lying inward. Accordingly, I set out thither one morning, and 

 remained till late in the day, till every box, indeed, contained a specimen. To 

 commence operations I climbed over a high stone wall, and dropped into the 

 spacious farm-yard on the other side. Desirous of losing no time, T assailed a 

 neatly thatched building with prompt and energetic thumps. What I beat out 

 emerged on the other side, and peeped at me confidentially round the corner of the 

 wall. My first capture might have been a shapely pig, and this advanced sus, 

 giving the word of command, led out a perfect regiment of shi'ieking brethi-en, who 

 ignoring rank and file, pressed headlong to the van and fled. Unabashed by this 

 remarkable demonstration I tried again, and was delighted to recognize Teatiana 

 and hadiella. With them came indiscriminate showers of costosa, arenella, swh- 

 propinquella. Alstrcemeriana, purpurea, applana, nervosa, and heracliana. I believe 

 I counted as many as nine species from one application of the beating stick, and 

 among these there were certainly a dozen purpurea. This latter certainly favours 

 Appuldurcombe. Among the hosts of sxih-propinquella I secured propinquella. 



At Shanklin, among miscellaneous examples of the same genus, I met with 

 about ten specimens of nanatella, a very pretty little insect. These were all, I 

 believe, firom one haystack. 



In the lovely landslip, I beat specimens of Gracilaria semifascia. Here too an 

 example of Q. phasianipennella and several Cerostoma costella auA sylvella occurred. 

 On the shore, near Yentnor, was Laverna epilohiella, and close to Bonchurch my 

 brother, by some mysterious monopoly, which I was equally unable to interrupt or 

 explain, lighted upon four specimens of Ochsenheimeria Bvrdella. — J. B. Blackburn. 



Lepidoptera in the neighbourhood of Woodchester. — As this locality is compara- 

 tively little known to Entomologists, it may be well to state that I have found it 

 rich in very many species, and I have no doubt it would be found still more so by 

 any one who is more master of his time than I am ; for, on the average, I am pre- 

 vented from giving more than one afternoon in the week to collecting, and my 

 health at present will not allow me to go out at night. However, during the past 

 year, besides most of the commoner species, I have taken, — 



A. Galathea, G. C-alhwtn, N. Lucina, T. ruli, P. alsus, A. trifolii, H. dominula, 

 N. plantaginis, G. ruhricollis, D. mendica, B. glandifera, L. Comma, C. cytherea, P. 

 fiavocincta, X. rhizolitha, A. aprilina, C. verhasci, C. umhratica, H. arhuti, P. 

 pulchrina, &c., &c., together with many among the Geometrce, Pyralidina, &c. — 

 Rev. B. Peter Mackey, Woodchester, near Stroud, June, 1865. 



Macroglossa steJlatarum. — This species has been extremely common here this 

 summer, chiefly delighting in the flowers of the Sweet-William. I found it also 

 flying in some numbers up and down the hedge-rows on tlio Chilterns. — R. Tyrek, 

 Weston Turville, Tring. 



