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jacohate, but were too early for Melitcsa cinx'ia, which is said to 

 occur abundantly. A single specimen of Smerinthus ocellatus, 

 found banging to the tip of a blade of grass, and two or three 

 Mamestra hrassicce., two lodis lactearia, an Acldalia, and two 

 Bomhyx qiiercus larvae complete the list of species noticed in 

 Jersey. On the morning of Tuesday, the 14th, we left for 

 Guernsey. Here, at St. Peter's, we soon became aware of the 

 more English character of the insects, being greeted by numbers 

 of LyccBiia argiolus on the borders of tlie town, and falling in 

 with Epinepliele ianira for the first time ; P. brassicce, P. rapce, 

 P. ncnn, common ; P. icarus, Polyominatus phlceas, fairly so ; but 

 T. ritbi, so common in Jersey, was quite over ; P. megcera and P. 

 egeria commonly ; but of C. pamphilus none, for the very good 

 reason, strange as it may seem, that this insect is not found at all 

 in Guernsey, though common enough in all the other islands. A 

 vist to Sark, on the 16th, introduced us to Melitcea cinxia, which 

 was flying fresh and fine in all parts of the island, being very 

 common close to the landing-place, and also near the famed 

 Coupee. The island of Sark, although under four square miles 

 in area, contains, we were informed, nearly the whole of the 

 insect fauna of Jersey and Guernsey, and it certainly was an 

 entomological paradise on the day we visited it. Insects were in 

 profusion, and we had some difficulty in distinguishing between 

 specimens of P. megcera and the more aristocratic M. cinxia. 

 All the other species enumerated above were noticed, L. icarus 

 being perhaps the commonest, and besides two more larvae of B. 

 quercus were obtained. Searching the south-east coast of 

 Guernse}' we came across M. cinxia, on the rough headland 

 known as the " Gouffre," and also in "Petit Bot " Ba}'^; but 

 owing to windy weather the specimens were somewhat worn. 

 From the inn-keeper at Petit Bot Bay we had a specimen of 

 Callimorpha hera, one of forty he had collected in two years off 

 an elm tree facing the inn. During two hours' stay on the island 

 of Herm, on the afternoon of the 18th, we noticed V. atalanta, 

 C. pamphilus, L. argiolus, L. icarus, and E. jacohace. We left 

 Guernsey for Southampton on the morning of the 2ist, and 

 arrived home before midnight, having thoroughly enjoyed both 

 the trip and the experience of novelty in collecting the early 

 summer species of the Lepidoptera of the Channel Islands. — 

 F. W. Hawks ; 14, Dovecote Villas, Wood Green, N. 



