\m.] 211 



With respect to the time of occurrence, Mr. Arnold tells me he took Eiithemonia 

 russula and Ai-gynnis Adippe the same day, but does not know the date, this would 

 point to the early days of July, or possibly to the latter part of June. The speci- 

 men was taken on heathy ground in Sussex, somewhere near Tunbridge Wells. He 

 does not remember seeing any other small fritillaries that day. He does remember 

 that he noticed the dullness of the under-side at the time, but thought it was owing 

 to the specimens having been for some time on the wing. This circumstance makes 

 him certain of the exact locality in which he caught them. 



I may add, that I have looked over Mr. Arnold's collection, which consists of 

 the more conspicuous English Macro- Lepidoptera — there were no other rarities 

 among them. — E. N. Bloomfield, Guestling Eectory : 2Qth December, 1882. 



[This is not the first time that we have heard of the occurrence of Argynnis 

 Dia in this country, though to many of our younger readers the announcement will 

 have all the charm of novelty. 



The chance of any error through the transposition of specimens seems pre- 

 cluded by the following considerations : — 1st, The captor has never purchased any 

 butterflies at all ; 2nd, he has never been abroad, nor received any insects from 

 abroad ; and 3rd, he has never exchanged insects. 



There is, however, still the possibility of the insect having been accidentally 

 introduced. — Edb.] 



George Wailes died at his residence, Gateshead, on the 30th October, 1882, in 

 the 80th year of his age. In him we have lost one of those zealous Entomologists 

 who could speak with the authority of more than 50 years' personal experience. 



J. F. Stephens, in his " Illustrations," quotes observations of George Wailes as 

 to the appearance of many insects in the neighbourhood of Newcastlc-on-Tyne, from 

 the year 1828 forwards. This would imply that he had been an active collector and 

 observer of insects for some time before 1828. 



George Wailes was not prolific as an author, and his Catalogue of the Lepidoptera 

 of Northumberland and Durham, which appeared in 1858 in the Transactions of the 

 Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club (noticed in the Entomologist's Annual for 1859, 

 p. 169) was his longest work. His remarks therein on the specific identity of 

 Folyommatus Artaxerxes and Agestis are of extreme interest ; a copious extract of 

 these notes was reprinted in the pages of the Zoologist for 1858, pp. 6278-6281. 

 Hagen, in his Bibliotheca Sntomologica, only enumerates twelve productions from 

 his pen, but there are several minor notes of his in the early volumes of the 

 Entomologists' Weekly Intelligencer. His very last notice in 1860 on Bomhylius 

 major reminds us that one of his earliest essays was on the characters of the European 

 Diptera, from Meigen's Systematische Beschreibung, which appeared in the Magazine 

 of Natural History for 1832. 



He certainly excelled as a letter writer, his neat hand-writing, and the 

 amount of geniality he threw into the subject, rendered the arrival of a letter from 

 him an unfailing source of pleasure. 



He was a solicitor, and I remember how on one occasion he remarked that in 

 his early Entomological career he had much neglected the smaller moths, but had 



