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3. Acidalia pei'Gchraria, Fischer von Roslerstamm. 



4. Acidalia strlgaria, Hiibner (Fig. 1). 



5. Pempelia abductella, Fischer von Roslerstamm. 



6. Timclionitis jn-yerella, H. Yaughan (Fig. 3). 



7. JBLomoeosoina saxicola, H. Yaughan. 



8. JB.o77ic£osoma senecionis, H. Yaughan (Fig. 2). 



9. Argyrolejna Iwndana, Gregson. 



10. Peronea profeana, Herrich-Schaffer. 



11. Pterophorus aridus^ Zeller. 



Before discussing these, we will proceed to our usual 

 gossip about the rarities which have occurred during the 

 past season. Firstly, the scarcer butterflies have been sparingly 

 represented ; two examples of P. Daplidice have occurred 

 at Portsmouth and one at Brighton; A. Latoiia has been 

 taken near Chilham (one of its old localities by the way), 

 and V. Antiopa in Suffolk, near Rochester, and at Chel- 

 tenham. 



As for hawk-moths we have never had such an emharras 

 des richesses. D. Livornica has been taken all over the 

 country in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales — from the 

 Isle of Wight to the north of Perthshire — sometimes singly, 

 at others by twos, threes, or even in greater numbers, now in 

 the perfect state now in the larval state, here in the spring 

 there in the summer, more rarely in the autumn. Alto- 

 gether something like half a hundred captures must have 

 been made, and many a young collector will doubtless look 

 back on 1870 as the great Livornica year. Deilephila 

 Gain, too, has been extraordinarily common ; it certainly 

 has never appeared in these isles in anything like the abund- 

 ance of the past season. Hundreds of larvae have been 

 taken. Its distribution has been north, east, west and south, 

 and there must be but few collections that do not now possess 

 a madder-hawk. My old friend (Dr. Boswell Syme), by the 



