20 J; [December, 



■were planted, wliich should have yielded a crop of, say, seven pecks ; 

 instead of which they yielded little more than a quarter of a peck, the 

 rest having been utterly spoiled by larvie of the Dipterous insects 

 named. 



Worcester: October, 18S3. 



The butterflies of Huntingdonshire. — No. 234 of this Magazine contained a list 

 of Cambridge Rhopalocera. I beg to supply a list of those found in Huntingdon- 

 shire by myself and friends within the years 1882-3. 1, Arr/ynnis Paphia, common ; 

 2, Aglaia; 3, Adippe, rave ; 4, Enphrosi/ne ; 5, Selene ; 6, 3Ielif(Ba Artemin, rare ; 

 7, Orapta c-albtim; 8, Vanessa urticcs ; 9, polychloros ; 10, lo ; 11, Pyrameis 

 Atalanta, very abundant ; 12, cardui, not common, very abundant in 1879 ; 13, 

 Apatura Iris, several in Monk's Wood ; 14, Melanargia Galathea, common ; 15, 

 Pararge JEgeria; 16, 31egcpra ; 17, EpinepheJe Janira; 18, Tithonus ; 19, Hyper- 

 anthus; 20, Coenonympha Pampkilws ; 21, Nemeobius Lucina ; 22, Thecla quercus, 

 common; 23, W-album; 24, pruni, rather rare; 25, betulcB ; 26, Polyommatus 

 phlosas ; 27, Lyccena JEgon ; 28, Icarus, common ; 29, Adonis, first time recorded, 

 I believe, in this shire, captured by myself in 1882 ; 30, Colias Edvsa, rare, very 

 abundant in 1877, also variety Helice ; 31, Rhodocera rhamni ; 32, Leucophasia 

 sinapis ; 33, Anihocharis cardamines, common ; 34, Pieris napi ; 35, rapce ; 36, 

 brassicce ; 37, Aporia cratagi, son\e time since; 38, Ilexperia W!a/r«, common ; 39, 

 Tages ; 40, Paniscus, not common ; 41, Sylvanus, abundant ; 42, llnea, everywhere. 



This is a good long list, and, I believe, compares favourably with any other 

 county ; in fact, I do not know where else such variety could be obtained in one 

 shire. Monk's Wood is most famous for its valuable species, and adds considerably 

 to the numbers. We must not forget that this county was the home of P. Hip- 

 pothoe, and that P. llachaon was abundant in the fens, making a gi-and total of 48 

 different species. This is a large proportion out of the 62 British species, some of 

 which are really unobtainable. 



I am compiling a list of Iluntingdonshire Lepidoptera, and shall be glad to 

 receive names of authentic captures from residents in the county, or from friends 

 who visit it. — IIerbeet E. Nokris, St. Ives, Hunts. : Zth November, 1883. 



Capture of Laphygma exlgua at PembroTce. — To my extreme surprise a rare 

 Noctua has turned up at Pembroke. There had been two or three mild still nights, 

 and stray specimens of Epunda lichenea and Anchocelis lunosa had come to the gas- 

 lamps, but another storm was making its moan when I went out again on September 

 24th to look at the few lamps nearest home, and on one of them a Laphygma exigua 

 was sitting. Whence it had come, and how far it had travelled in unavailing search 

 for a mate (for it was a male, decidedly worn with travel, but not otherwise damaged) 

 — or how far it would have carried on the fruitless quest, who shall guess ? I feel 

 rather glad that I turned out that night, and gave it a chance of some kind of 

 appreciation. — Chas. G. Barrett, Pcmbi-oke : 23rd October, 1883. 



