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Chcerocampa celerio near Hartlepool. — A specimen of this insect was brought 

 to me by a boy on the 26th of October. I was not at home when it arrived, so got 

 no particulars. I know of another specimen captured last year. — John E. Robson, 

 Hartlepool, November \Sth, 1865. 



Note o» Vanessa cardui. — I wish to call attention to the fact that this species 

 has not only been excessively abundant during the past season, but has also varied 

 much in size. 



The smallest specimens we took here, at Exeter, expanded less than 1" 11'", 

 whilst the largest measured very nearly 3" in expanse. One of these giants is 

 remarkable, also, for a small white ocellus, edged with black, which is placed in 

 tlio largest yellowish blotch of the fore-wings, about 1^'" from the anal angle, and 

 appears plainly on both the upper and under-sides. — J. Hellins. 



Lepidoptera in the Lake Dislrict.—On the 21st of June I started, in company 

 with my friend, Mr. Thos. Blackburn, on an entomological excursion to the Lake 

 District. Strange to say, it rained but very little all the time we were there. 



Our first excursion was to Stye Head Tarn, through Langdale, and over 

 Blackcrag Pass. The first Lepidopteron we started was Larentia salicaria, which 

 we found at rest, or rather in the act of refusing to remain at rest, on the large 

 lumps of rock that render the ascent of the ravine, which constitutes Blackcrag 

 Pass, at once delightful and romantic. 



Just as we gained the greensward, at the top of the pass, Erehia Cassiope made 

 a futile attempt to look like a '* meadow brown," and afterwai-ds acted the penitent 

 convict in solitary confinement with considerably more success ; we saw a good 

 many, and caught most of them, but they were somewhat worn. This was on the 

 22nd. I may remark that this was the fourth ascent I had made in search of 

 Cassiope, and the first time I had seen it. I ought not to forget to state that 

 Mr. Blackburn took a good number of Coremiamimitata, which, for that day, eluded 

 me. 



On the grassy slopes between Sprinkling and Stye Head Tarns, and, in fact, 

 on pretty nearly every high hill which we ascended during the " out," we found 

 Cramhus fuTcatellus not uncommonly ; and somewhere about the Cassiope locality, 

 which I should describe as almost anywhere between the two tarns, I took Mixodia 

 Schuhiana. 



The next excursion of any extent was to Conistone Old Man. In a little 

 hollow on the left hand side of the road to Conistone, just past the fir-woods at the 

 top of the hill-road, we took Argynnis Aglaia and Selene, Acidalia fumata, Ennyclaa 

 octomaculalis, Pterophorus teph/radactyhts, and Pt. osteodactyhis. 



On another occasion, on the other side of the road, we found Plusia fcstucw, 

 Thera conifcrata, and Macroglossa stellatarum, which latter has been generally 

 common this year. On Conistone Old Man, besides Cr. furcatellus, wo took C. 

 iiiwiitata very commonly, and, also, one or two Larentia ccesiata, with which we 

 nfti'rwards met almost wherever there were rocks, though I do not remonibLr to 

 have seen it on Helvellyu. 



