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Britain, viz. : — C. Wallengreni, like C.fossarum, but with the head much broader 

 than the thorax, and rather narrower than the body, &c. ; C. pallidula, like C. Fabricii, 

 but nearly one-half smaller, head larger, colour paler, &c. — -Id. : \st October, 1875. 



Note on Typhlocyha hyperici. — Yesterday, a warm and sunny day, I made the 

 acquaintance, for the first time in life, of this pretty, shy, dusky wood-nymph in a 

 part of Darenth Wood where, within a restricted space, Hypericum perforatum 

 grows plentifully among the young underwood. For the capture of such skittish 

 creatures as the TypJdocyhidcB an umbrella or wide net is of little use, for they fly 

 out of it directly, so I went provided with a round butterfly-net, and by placing it 

 under the Hypericum plants, and then tapping them with a stick, I had the pleasure 

 of getting a few examples of my desideratum. Even when thus in the net, they are 

 only half caught, for, mixed up with dry leaves and capsules of the food plant, they 

 are not conspicuous while they rest, and when they jump the presence of four or five 

 examples of other species, trapped at the same time, all performing the same mad 

 antics from side to side of the net, distracts attention from the coveted one (I never 

 had more than one such in the net at a time), and delays the moment when a quill 

 can be put over it. I know but of two other British examples, taken by the Rev. T. A. 

 Marshall, and the species is noted as being rare in collections everywhere, which, 

 considering the restricted habitat, the time of appearance, and the difficulty of capture, 

 is not to be wondered at. — Id. : Sth October, 1875. 



Notes on Lepidoptera from the Isle of Man. — I had two or three days collecting 

 at Onchan in the Isle of Man in the middle of August last, but Lepidoptera were 

 very scarce, and the only two species taken, not ah-cady recorded as occurring on the 

 island, so far as I am aware, were Stilbia anomala and Crambus geniculellus. The 

 former flew at dusk on the cliffs, and the latter was very freely beaten out of furze 

 bushes in the day-time, along the top of the cliffs. By shaking and collecting seed- 

 eaps^ules of Silene maritima, I secured larvae of Dianthoecia capsopliila and ceesia, 

 and I think another species of the genus. Imagos of Folia nigrocincta and the red 

 var. of CirrJicsdia xerampelina were not yet out, although I sugared the rocks weU 

 for the former, and the ash-trees for the latter. ^ — Geo. T. Poeeitt, Iluddersfield : 

 October 2nd, 1875. 



Notes on the Lepidoptera of the Pyrenees. — The following list of Lepidoptera 

 collected at Argeles (Kautes Pyrenees), may perhaps prove of use to some of your 

 readers. I collected there during the last week of July in this year ; but, owing to 

 the exceptionally heavy rains during the first part of the summer, which had never 

 before been experienced by the " oldest inhabitant " of Argeles, the butterflies were 

 not at all plentiful, and many species I expected to find were not seen at aU : — Mclan- 

 argia Qalathea, abundant evei-y whore ; Satyrus Megoera; Epinephile Janira, 

 Tithonus ; Hipparchia Hyperanthus, fagi, Scop., rocky places both in vaUeys and 

 on sides of mountains ; Coenonympha Arcania, Lin. ; Argynnis Paphia, Aglaia, 

 Adippe, Lathitnia, Dia, Lin.; Mclitcea Athalia; Vanessa C-alhum; Pyrameis 

 Atalanta, very abundant in one shaded rocky glen, and seen nowliere else ; 

 Lycxna Qordius, Sulz. ; Cuindo Icarus, Corydon, Avion ; Zephyrus quercus ; Lc\ico- 

 phasia sinapis ; Pieris daplidice, somewhat Bcarcc, rapw, napi; Gonepteryx rhamni; 

 Colias Edusa, not common ; Papilio Machaon. *Ycry few raotlis were taken. Ma- 



