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Camilla, fine and fresh. Chrysophanus dorilis, two males were seen. 

 Aporia crataetji was in some numbers everywhere, and in good con- 

 dition. No specimen of Papiliu or Thais was seen, which was quite 

 unusual. I\ podaliriua and /'. niachaon having been seen almost daily 

 everywhere ; Polt/ommatus icaras was common, and one P. corydon <? 

 was taken. Specimens of Aciptilia tetradactyla were found amongst 

 thyme. — T. A. Chapman, Reigate. 



Entomological notes from Hants. — This is the worst season I 

 ever remember. Sugar has been absolutely useless, and larva-beating 

 equally bad. I bred one Phycia ahietella only from all my cones. The 

 rest refused to pupate, though they hybernated all right. I failed 

 also to take any imagines in its haunts. I only saw one (Kajyastra 

 curtisii, which I missed, and most dragonfiies were scarce. Labidura 

 riparia was as common as ever, and I have now a nice colony feeding 

 up on flies and earwigs. They are very interesting, make nests like 

 swallows under the sandstones, have a bath nearly every day, and also 

 drink the water; I have them of all ages, from babes-in-arms to full- 

 grown, g and ? . It is fun to see their tails go up when you throw 

 in a bluebottle fly and they hear the buzzing. Ayrius convolvuli is 

 common again this autumn, four or five dozen have been taken in 

 Bournemouth. Mr. Hooker has taken about two dozen, the Rev. 

 E. Hallett Todd a dozen, and several other collectors six or 

 eight apiece. Unfortunately I have been sufiering badly from 

 rheumatism and could not go after them, but have had four or five 

 brought me, not, however, worth setting. I tried to get eggs, but 

 failed. I have already noted that the five larvae of Phryxim livornica, 

 I had, died in infancy. A few common moths, e.y., Caradrina amhiyua, 

 Noctua c-niyrum, Brotolomia meticulosa, etc., are now coming to the 

 honey-dew on a balsam -poplar tree I have in the garden, but they will 

 not look at sugar. Eupithecia ea'pallidata was taken by the Rev. E. H. 

 Todd, at Westbourne. I think this is a new record for the locality. 

 I saw several Coliaa ediisa at the end of July and beginning of August, 

 but, as they were going about fifty miles an hour, I did not get any. 

 I have visited all the clover fields near here since, but have seen none. 

 IHaseuiia literalix has been taken at Christchurch in the moth trap, 

 also L'a)iipt(iyraiii)iia jiuriata. I believe the former is now rarely taken. 

 In North Cornwall, where I was for three or four days during the 

 second week in July, and two of which were dull, I captured a few 

 Lycaena avion, but there were, on the dull days, certainly more nets 

 than butterflies. We tried sugar, but got only TJn/atira batis, (Jonophora 

 derasa, Aplecta nebiilom, and one A. herhida. — (Major) R. B. Robertson, 

 Forest View, Southbourne Road, Boscombe. September 19th, 1904. 



Notes on Lepidoptera at Strood. — This season has been a most 

 remarkable one, the earlier species being fully a month later, while, 

 since July the reverse has been the case, and now, I may say, in this 

 district the season is virtually over. With me nothing of note has 

 turned up in numbers, possibly because most of my time has been 

 spent on the earlier stages of the plumes, no fewer than twelve species 

 having been found as larvte. Sugar has been very unsatisfactory, but 

 my most remarkable experience has been with Nonayria arundinis 

 {typhae). A correspondent wishing for a few pup^, I went to a spot 

 where thirty or forty has been a not unusual return for an hour's 

 work, but this year I found I had been forestalled by mice or voles, 

 which had started at the entrance-hole of the larva, and had then 



