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Deiopeia pulchella, Sfc, in the Hastings district. — A specimen of Deiopeia 

 pulchella was taken at Battle on June 4th by Miss D. M. Roper, and another speci- 

 men was seen in a garden at Q-uestHng in the last week of August. Vanessa cardui 

 and Colias Edusa have been very abundant in the neighbourhood, and the form 

 Helice has not been very uncommon ; some specimens of C. Hyale have also been 

 taken, two of them at Guestling, I have been informed that Deilephila galii has 

 been taken at the electric light in Hastings, which has also attracted sundry Sphinx 

 convolvuli. — E. N. Bloomfield, Q-uestling Rectory : September \2th, 1892. 



Hesperia lineola in Nottinghamshire. — When looking over the collection of Mr. 

 J. N. Young, of Rotherham, the other day, I saw in it a specimen of Hesperia 

 lineola, taken by himself, in the year 1880, somewhere on the Clumber estate, in that 

 portion of Nottinghamshire known as the " Dukeries." It is very curious that this 

 species should keep turning up from fresh localities. — Chas. Q-. Baeeett, 39, Linden 

 Grove, Nunhead, S.E. : September 20th, 1892. 



Boarmia repandata. — I have been fortunate in breeding a fine series of this 

 variable insect from larvoe taken in this neighbourhood during the spring of this 

 year. They vary from a well marked ordinary southern form to an intense velvety 

 black ; these latter are quite as dark as the Huddersfield form, and, in fact, could 

 not be any blacker. Some of the specimens approach the West of Scotland form, 

 whilst some of the black specimens have the zigzag subterminal line on the under- 

 wings of a clear white, which is very striking. 



For several years occasional black ones have been bred by Mr. Batty of this 

 town, and myself, but never to the extent of what I have bred this year. Perhaps 

 the chief reason has been that by working hard for the larvae I was fortunate in 

 breeding a larger number of specimens than has been usually done in this district. 

 About one in every four would be an almost black variety, and one in eight a perfectly 

 jet-black form.— A. E. Hall, Nerbury, Sheffield : September 12th, 1892. 



JEros (^Pyropterus) afflnis, Fayk., near Doncaster. — At page 243 of last number 

 I notice that in recording the capture of P. affinis at Aviemore, Mr. Champion re- 

 marks that the only other recorded British localities are Killarney and Sherwood. 

 In addition to these localities I may say that I took several larvae from a rotten 

 stump in Green Farm Wood, near Doncaster, on October 23rd, 1890. All but one 

 were successfully reared, emerging in the middle of May, 1891. The capture was 

 duly recorded in the " Naturalist " of that year. I have several times since searched 

 for this species in the same locality, but so far without success. — E. G. Bayfoed, 

 158, Doncaster Road, Barnsley : September 1th, 1892. 



Lehia crux-minor at Oomshall. — While collecting at Gomshall towards the 

 end of August, I visited the ground on which two years ago I found Nabis 

 boops, in the hopes of getting some more specimens of this rare Hemipteron. 

 A small isolated patch of Calluna, not more than a yard in diameter, which had 

 yielded me the bug on a former occasion, was the first to be searched, and there 

 sure enough was the insect again this year ; but I had no sooner captured it than 

 on turning up the next portion of the heather my eye lighted on a beautiful example 



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