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which grows in the crevices or on the faces of the rocks and stone walls ; now this 

 moss is more or less of a green colour, and when Eudorea murana first emerges from 

 the pupa state, it reposes for some time after its wings are fully grown on the surface 

 of the green moss. 



In such a position, it is readily seen by even an inexperienced Entomologist, and 

 I should imagine, unless it is nauseous to the taste, it would be readily eaten by many 

 insectivorous birds, for its grey colour, so like that of the rocks, &c., makes it very 

 conspicuous on a patch of green moss, and its instinct is not yet sufficiently de- 

 veloped to teach it to seek as soon as possible the concealment of a stone-coloured 

 object on which to rest. 



At Lairg, Sutherlandshire, this insect made its first appearance on the 21st of 

 June, and on the following day I met with several. Those I first captured, I at 

 once placed in the killing bottle, but found I had been too hasty in so doing, as the 

 specimens were difficult to set out, owing to the wings, though fully grown, having 

 been still rather limp. 



Hence the following moral may be deduced : if you find any species of Eudorea 

 reposing on the surface of moss, keep it for some hours after boxing it before placing 

 it in the killing bottle, that the wings may have time to harden. — H. T. Stainton, 

 Mountsfield, Lewisham : August, 1883. 



Abundance of Plusia gamma at Deal. — The appearance of this insect in great 

 abundance this spring, and its remarkably pale form, seems to corroborate Mr. 

 Barrett's remarks as to its probable immigration. 



These insects, when taken in the spring, were of a pale slate colour, especially 

 beyond the middle of the primary wings, and very unlike the ordinary form. The 

 second brood, which is now equally abundant, is of a very dark colour and reddish- 

 purple on the inner margin ; they still continue to swarm at dusk on the flowers of 

 Ballota nigra and the different species of Silene. Vanessa cardui was also very 

 plentiful in the spring, but seems scarcer since the hibernated specimens have been 

 replaced by those newly emerged ; perhaps that is accounted for by the very bad 

 weather in July, many species generally complete pests in this part of the coast, 

 as A. Oalathea, P. Corydon, &c., being much diminished in their numbers. — C. Hall, 

 Deal : August 19th, 1883. 



Coleopfera in the New Forest. — I spent a week at Brockenhurst in June last 

 with tlie intention more particularly of working the wood-feeding Coleoptera, but 

 owing to the absence of dead wood and the badness of the weather, my success was 

 not commensurate with my, perhaps rather sanguine, expectations. Insects of all 

 Orders, not excepting even the generally common species, were remarkably scarce. 

 The following may be reckoned as my best captures : — Mycetoporus lucidus, Stenus 

 Kiesenwetteri, Phlaeocharis subtilissima, Euplectus punctatus, ScydmcEnus exilis, 

 Agathidium nigrinum, Plegaderus dissectus, Cryptarcha strigata, Cerylon angusta- 

 tum, Lcemophloeus duplicatus, Corymbites metallicus, Tillus elongatus, Conipora or- 

 biculata, Sphindus dubius, Mycetochares bipustulata, Salpingus ater, Anisoxya 

 fuscula, Abdera bifasciata, Apion genistce, Leptura scutellaris. 



I spent part of one day at Lymingtou, where the only captui'es worth recording 



