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Aporia cratcBgi. — As the season for this fast disappearing species is at hand, 

 may I ask entomologists not only to keep a careful look out for it, but also to record 

 any capture. It seems almost certain that it soon will be a thing of the past, as far 

 as English specimens are concerned, and the last records of its capture will be in- 

 teresting in the future. In the " Entomologist's Record " for April last, Mr. Tutt 

 mentions that the last record of the species was that of the specimens taken in 1887, 

 vouched for by Mr, Webb (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxiv, p. 131) ; but this is an error 

 on Mr. Tutt's part, as it was taken in 1888, and recorded in the " Entomologist," 

 vol. xxi, p, 184. I am under the strong impression that I either read or was told 

 of its capture in North Kent in 1890, but can find no note of it. — C. A. Beiggs, 

 55, Lincoln's Inn Fields : May \mh, 1892. 



Prices of British Lepidoptera. — At the sale of the collection of the late Mr. 

 Arthur Naish, of Bristol (whose name appears frequently in the first volume of the 

 " Intelligencer "), at Stevens' Rooms on May 16th, some of the extinct (or nearly 

 so) species of British Lepidoptera fetched high prices. We note the following. 

 Seven examples of Lt/ccena dispar (the long extinct British form of L. Eippothoe) 

 realized £16 8s., or an average of nearly £2 Vs. each ; a <J sold for £3 3s., and a? 

 for £4 10s., these being in very fine condition A lot containing four PoJyommatus 

 Acis (perhaps extinct) was sold for 18s. Eight Lcelia ccenosa (apparently recently 

 extinct) were sold for £3 IVs. 6d. Two Cleora viduaria (not found very recently) 

 were knocked down for a' guinea. Seven Noctua suhrosea (long extinct as British, 

 and the continental form of which, subccerulea, is very different in appearance) ob- 

 tained £6 12s., one very fine example realizing £2 IDs. — Eds. 



The Entomology of the month of April. — The fine warm weather which com- 

 menced on March 25th continued till April 14th, when there was a return of snow 

 storms ; then, on the 21st, the weather turned warmer again, but colder again on 

 the 25th. Almost throughout the month there was a continuance of N. E. winds 

 and brilliant sunshine with frosts, and sometimes sharp ones at night. The effect 

 upon insect life in Dorsetshire has been a remarkable one ; butterflies have been 

 unusually plentiful, moths unusually scarce. During the first fortnight F. rapes 

 and napi appeared in numbers, accompanied by a few of hrassicce, and several of 

 rhamni, V. cardui and urticce, and more of Atalanta than I have ever seen in the 

 spring. Both rapcB and napi appeared on the 2nd. Andrena Clarkella and Gwynana 

 Nomada horealis and Fahriciana, and Bombylius major also appeared commonly, 

 with a few of Anticlea ladiata. Now came the change. From the 14th to the 21st 

 hardly any of the above were to be seen, and one or two of urticce again retired to 

 winter quarters in my house. On the 23rd I went to the New Forest for the day, 

 and there saw H. Algeria in abundance, and a solitary specimen of E. abbreviata ; 

 strange to say it has been the only Eupithecia I have seen this year. Tortricodes 

 hyemana and Biurnea fagella have likewise been unusually scarce. The first A. 

 cardamines (a female) appeared on the 11th. The weather since May 5th has again 

 been warmer, and the previously named butterflies abundant again, in company with 

 A. cardamines and A. Euphrosyne. It appears, therefore, that easterly wind with 

 frosts at night are injurious to moth life, but do not affect butterfly life, so long as 



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