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vented and secured, and in the course of two hours of climbing, creeping, and 

 scrambling, half a dozen more were safely boxed, whilst others took an unfair 

 advantage of the nature of the ground to escape. 



It is interesting to see that in this isolated locality the species has by no means 

 dwindled in size, or diminished in beauty, but on the contrary, is adorned with white 

 spots of unusual size, the minute white dot usually present on the centre of the 

 fore-wings having become a fair-sized spot, so that the name oetomaculalis has almost 

 become a misnomer. 



A single specimen has since been found in a wood in the middle of the county, 

 but this is of the ordinary form. — Id. 



'Eupozcilia Mussehliana, and other Lepidoptera, near Pembroke. — "When working 

 for Diasemia literalis, a fortnight ago, we had the good fortune to disturb and secure 

 several beautiful specimens of Eupozcilia Mussehliana, a species which, from mis- 

 calculation of its time of appearance, or some other cause, I hardly saw at all last 

 year. It hides closely in the short herbage, and is very hard to put up, and when 

 disturbed, flies sharply a short distance, and then drops and hides itself, much in the 

 manner of Chrosis tesserana. About sunset it flies more freely and higher, but only 

 if the evening is warm and still. Such evenings are not frequent, and we have 

 worked hard in several localities since, but with little success. 



Sometimes we had a little diversion, Pyraustu ostrinalis would appear in 

 abundance and wonderful loveliness, and insist on being captured ; one evening, an 

 excited $ Bombyx rubi plunged headlong into my net while I was looking at a 

 small tortrix, and created no small commotion. He was acceptable, however, to the 

 lad — being his first specimen — and served to reward him for catching me a fine 

 Mussehliana a few minutes before. Another evening the search led us into a damp 

 corner of a field, and a ? 5. rubi, looking from its queer zigzag flight like an enor- 

 mous ? Hepialus humuli flitted past me to fall a victim to the boy's ready net. 

 There we found Melitcea Artemis asleep, sitting on the leaves of Scabiosa succisa, 

 with antenna? held apart and rather forward, not in the usual fashion of sleeping 

 butterflies. Little else was about except occasional specimens of the two pretty 

 Euclidice, and Penthina marginalia, looking white when flying, from the colour of 

 its hind-wings. 



The food of Mussehliana is still unknown, a rumour that it had been bred from 

 Pedicularis palustris does not seem to have been confirmed. Prof. Zeller's suggestion 

 of Linum catharticum seems as good as any other, for the plant certainly seems to 

 grow wherever the insect occurs — and in most other places — but there has been, so 

 far, no indication of larva? found about it. I think the insect is a stem-feeder, but 

 have no proof, nor any idea in what stem. — Id. 



Captures of Coleopiera in the Isle of Wight. — During a short stay at Ventnor 

 last April, I obtained a few good Coleoptera : the beetle I especially wanted to get 

 was the very rare Homalota princeps, Sharp, which was recorded from Ventnor by 

 Mr. E. Saunders last year (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xvii, p. 116) ; of this I secured a 

 single specimen, which Dr. Sharp has kindly confirmed for me. I again found 

 Lithocharis maritima, and in fact nearly all the beetles mentioned by me in Ent. 



