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briefly included by name only in the addenda and corrigenda of Mr. Walker's 

 "Diptera Britannica," vol. iii, xiv. The following is Zetterstedt's description of it: 

 Pallide testacea, nigro-Uneata ; alis alhidis, nigro-bifasciatis, fed ibus flavin, anti- 

 cortim femoribus, tibiis et tarsis, posieriorumque femoribus macula apicali, nigra- 

 fuscis. S 9 • (Long. J — 1 lin., raro vdtra). — C. W. Dale, Q-lanville's Wootton : Ihth 

 December, 1879. 



Protective resemblance in pupa of Pieris rapce. — Thrice in 1878 I met with 

 pupse of Pieris rapce attached to leaves of plants, and in each case the pupa very 

 closely simulated the colour of the leaf. The first was on the under-side of a leaf of 

 swede turnip, the second on the upper-side of a leaf of horse-radish, and the third 

 was on the upper-side of a privet-leaf. The dLfference in appearance between these 

 and those found on fences, &c., was most striking. — J. E. Fletcheb, Happy Land, 

 Worcester : December, 1879. 



Vanessa cardui in Arabia. —In Mr. Wilfrid S. Blunt's account, at a meeting of 

 the Royal Geographical Society, of his recent jouniey in Central Arabia, he mentions 

 the fact of his having observed a specimen of the painted-lady butterfly, renowned, 

 as he says, for long flights, sunning itself on the rocks of Aalem, in the great sard 

 desert of Nefud. This insect, he further observed, could not have been bred at any 

 nearer point than the hills of Syria, 400 miles off — a atatement somewhat at variance 

 with his account of the unexpected luxuriant vegetation of the Nefud, in which it 

 can scarcely be doubted that so persevering and hardy a plant as the thistle would be 

 found. At all events, the penetration of this butterfly into the centre of Arabia 

 seems worth recording. — E. C. Rye, 1, Savile Row, W. : December, 1879. 



Re-occurrence of Ennomos alniaria {aiittunnaria, TTernbg.) at Qosport. — I think 

 I may now claim for E. alniaria the designation of a British insect. Your readers 

 may recollect my announcement of the capture, in 1877, in this neighbourhood, by a 

 young entomologist, a pupil at the Royal Naval Academy here, of three specimens of 

 E. alniaria. The season of 1878 proved a blank so far as this species was concerned 

 to me. This year I have taken over a dozen specimens in an out-of-the-way part of 

 the suburbs, and in a very circumscribed area — a district I do not think I visited last 

 year. The insects probably belonged to the same brood, as I took them by two<) a»^d 

 threes each evening for about a week. 



As an instance of the irregular occurrence of certain species I may mention that 

 last year I took a long series of Anthocelis liino^a on two or three gas lamps in this 

 road, whereas this year I have not taken a single specimen. — E. F. Heath, Brook- 

 lands, Bui'y Road, Grosport : December 10th, 1879. 



Acronycta alni in Dunham Park. — Two larvae of A. alni were taken last season : 

 one by myself, beaten out of lime when about 4'" in length ; it fed up on lime, and 

 is now a pupa : the other was taken by Mr. Thomas Thorpe, of Bowdon. The clavate 

 hairs only appear with the last moult. — J. Chappell, 89, Bonsall Street, Hulme, 

 Manchester : Wi December, 1879. 



Capture of Laphygma exigua, S;o. — On August 11th I captured a specimen of 



