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been taken in the town the last three autumns. One was seen 

 b}^ a lamplighter on the framework of a lamp ; he was quite 

 terrified at the sight of such a huge insect, with such large 

 prominent e^'es. He ultimately took the moth and put it in his 

 tobacco-box ; it is needless to add that it presented anything but 

 a respectable appearance when released from its prison. My 

 Coleoptera from Wellington, included Cicendela campestris, 

 Lehla cyanocephala, Rhynchites hetuleti, Leiojnis nebulosus, Prlonus 

 coriarius (3), Toxotns meridianus, Pachyta albomaculata, and 

 Strangalia armata. — F. Milton; 164, Stamford Hill, London, N. 



Lepidoptera in the Channel Islands. — Friday, the 3rd 

 of June, 1887, found my brother and myself en route for Jersey. 

 Fortunatel}' it proved the last da}^ of the wet period which came 

 in with the month of May, and the 4th of June began that fine 

 spell which lasted, with but slight breaks, right on to the middle 

 of August. Arriving by midday on Saturday, the 4th, at St. 

 Heliers, we took a prospective walk into the interior of the 

 island. Here I should state that the weather in Jersey and the 

 Channel Islands generally had scarcely dilfered from that expe- 

 rienced in the South of England, having been wet and cold up to 

 the time of our arrival. We noticed Pieris hrassica and P. rapce 

 commonly in the gardens and lanes, and Pararge egeria was also 

 common about the shadier spots. A visit to St. Brelade's Bay in 

 the south-west produced more P. egeria, P. megcera, and Cceno- 

 nympha 'pamphilus commonly ; Thecla riibi in good condition and 

 common ; Lyccena icarus and L. astrarche in fair numbers, the 

 latter occurring on marshy spots, and varying from English 

 specimens on the under side in having a much lighter ground 

 colour. From the Corbiere, in the extreme south-west, we had L. 

 icarus and T. ruhi abundantly and in good condition, and these 

 two species were also the commonest, along with P. egeria, in the 

 northern and eastern parts of the island. No traces of such 

 ordinary English species as Eucldoe cardamines, Gonepteryx 

 rhamni, Argynuis euphrosyne, A. selene, Syriclithus malvce, and 

 Nisoniades tages, and of these only G. rhamni, according to the 

 local lists, is now found on the island. One specimen of Vanessa 

 atalanta crossed our path in the north-west ; and from the 

 Quenvais, a waste tract on the west side, according to guide- 

 books " dreary," but when we saw it, covered with wild roses and 

 anything but dreary, we took several specimens of Euclielia 



