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protea and Chariptera aprilina were common enough, and Glcea spadicea, Gonoptei-a 
Ubatrix, and even wasted Amphipyra, pyra/rmdea, were occasionally to be met with. 
But besides these common things, I obtained several Hoporina croceago, Xylina 
rMzoKtha and petrificata, Calocampa vetusta, and Epimda nigra. 
The GeometrcB were represented by Cidaria psittacata and nissata ; Scopnla, 
ferrugalis was common and very lively, seldom waiting to be boxed, but flying 
frantically round the lantern ; Pterophorus pterodadylus was excessively abundant, — 
more so, I think, than any other moth, — and one specimen of Sarrothripa Rewayana 
suffered the penalty of his weakness for sweets. 
The moths appeared to have some means of piercing the skin of the fruit ; 
their trunks were constantly to be seen penetrating it, while their bodies were 
fairly distended with juice. I have seen as many as six Anthocelis rufina on one 
bunch, and believe that the shrivelled and withered branches so commonly to be 
seen were due (with the assistance of plenty of wasps) to the abundance and 
greediness of the moths. 
This mode of "collecting has one great advantage — it can be continued until 
very late. Instead of retiring, as moths generally do, from the sugar as soon as 
they have made a meal, they continue on the blackberries as though they could 
never have enough, and are almost as plentiful at eleven o'clock as in the first part 
of the evening. Later I did not try. — Charles G. Bakrett, Haslemere. 
Nemeohius Lucina. — This species occurs here in an extensive copse intersected 
with deep valleys. It frequents the bottoms of these valleys, where it flits about 
over the underwood, almost always returning to one particular spray ; indeed, 
certain bushes, and even twigs, seem to be especially to their taste, since if one be 
taken another soon occupies its place. In this way one alder-bush afibrded me two 
or three specimens, and a little oak-bush, in a particularly warm and pleasant 
coi'ner, was always sure to have a fresh tenant in a few hours, or, at any rate, in a 
day or two after the previous occupant had been captured. Occasionally, though 
rarely, a specimen would settle on a spurge-bloom, the only flower they appeared 
to affect. — C. G. Barrett, Haslemere. 
Note on Hermaphrodites. — The following two instances of hermaphroditism seem 
not to be mentioned by Dr. Hagen in his catalogues in the Stettiner Entomologische 
Zeitung for 1861 and 1863, and as the* completion of such valuable records ought 
always to be one of the aims of the student of entomology, I give the entire passages 
as contained in Dr. F. A. Nickcrl's " Synopsis der Lepidoptern Fauna Boehmens," 
Prague, 1850, inferring that English readers generally have no ready access to this 
work. 
Dr. Nickcrl mentions of Satyrus Semele, L. — " My collection contains a very 
fine hermaphrodite taken near Prague, the right half of which is male, whilst the 
left is female." Op. cit., p. 15. 
The same author says of Lyccena Argiis, L. — " An hermaphrodite, taken near 
Prague by Herr Maloch, painter, the left half of which, viewed from above, shows 
the colouring of the female, whilst the right half produces the colouring of the 
male, is in my collection. A bluish stripe extends from the base (Innenwinkel) of 
