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that a specimen of the Oamberwell Beauty (Vanessa Anfiopa) -was taken here yester- 

 day. A young lady was passing under some trees on her way home from church 

 after morning serrice, when a large butterfly, which proves to be a Camberwell 

 Beauty, fell in a torpid state, though still living, upon her hat. You have recorded 

 many instances last summer of the appearance of this rare butterfly, whose annus 

 mirahilis in England has been 1872 : but that it shoidd have favoured us with its 

 presence in January is a most extraordinary fact. — J. N. Simpkinson, North Creake 

 Eectory : January Qth, 1873. (Extracted from the 'Norfolk Chronicle,' Jan. Wth). 



Lepidoptera at Guestling in 1872. — Bad as the past season has been, I have met 

 with a few species worth recording, most of them, however, taken near the sea at Pett, 

 a locality which, although it is but two miles distant, I have not as yet properly 

 explored. June 10th — Ci/matophora fluctuosa : this specimen was worn, but I took 

 a beauty five or six weeks afterwards. July 8th — Lithosia quadra, S ; I took at 

 different times two specimens at sugar, and missed two more. Cucullia asteris ; 

 took one specimen on the wing, and later in the season found a few larvae. 11th — 

 Odontia dentalis, Anerastia lotella, Somceosoma eluviella ; these were all taken at 

 Pett, the last in good quantity at dusk, on the flowers of Carduus lanceolatus : I 

 also took Pteropliorus lithodactylus among the flea-bane. 13th — Acronycta auricoma, ■ 

 one, at sugar ; Sodophcea tumideUa, not uncommon. 19th — Stenia punctalis ; took 

 two specimens at Pett flying with Cledeohia angustalis ; I could not distinguish 

 between them until tliey were in the net. JSupithecia siihnotata, several worn 

 specimens. August 3rd — Acidalia rubricata came to light, to my surprise, as I 

 should not have thought this a likely locality for it. September 1st— F". Antiopa 

 about this date, as recorded last month (November), p. 138. 



I am sorry to have to make the following corrections in former records : — 

 Phycis carbonariella (Ent. Mo. Mag., May, 1871, p. 277) should be P. betulella ; 

 I had quite overlooked the small indistinct tufts of raised scales on the fore-wings. 

 Etipithecia virgaureata and Pteropliorus microdactylus (Ent. Mo. Mag., June, 1868, 

 p. 23) were only E. cafttigata and P. tephradactylus ; they were worn specimens 

 about which I had felt doubtful, and were returned from London with the names I 

 recorded. I am sure now that they were wrongly named.- — E. N. Bloomfield, 

 Guestling Rectory : November ^th, 1872. 



On reversed motion of the limbs of Arthronomalus longicornis, Leach (electricus, 

 Gervais). — A few weeks ago, I had occasion to watch the proceedings of this Centi- 

 pede, while dealing with its living prey, the large fuscous Podura so abundant 

 among decaying vegetable matter. 



Happening to disturb a flower-pot, I observed the creature rapidly sallying out 

 of the interstice between the pot and saucer. It carried the caudal segment ahead 

 and slightly raised, while the last pair of feet were acting as antennae, their tips being 

 directed forward, and occupied with alternatively feeling their way. As each suc- 

 ceeding segment appeared, I found the attached pair of legs moving forward in the 

 direction of the caudal segment, till at last the head itself made its appearaiice, 

 carrying in its mandibles a struggling and vigorous Podura, which, from its liveli- 

 ness, I judged to have been seized the moment before. 



Desirous of witnessing whether this reversed movement of the Myriapod was 

 momentary, and caused solely by the feeling of insecurity to which the shaking of 



