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18th, all by the margin of the Black Pond in Claremont Woods. Large 

 numbers of both sexes of PyrrJwsoma minium were on the wing at the 

 same spot on April 29th, and I took the same species on May 14th and 

 one specimen on June 3rd, while one emerged from a pupa out of the pond 

 on May 4th. Females of Platetrum depressum were on the wing in the 

 district on May 14th, on which day Agrion [Enallagma] cyatJiigerum 

 swarmed near the pond. Of the latter species I saw one or two specimens 

 on June 8rd, a dull day, on which date I also took one Agrion jmlchelhim 

 and one A. puella in the same place. In addition to the above I have bred 

 two specimens of Brachytron pratense, a male on May 19th, and a female 

 on May 24th, from pupfe taken from the Basingstoke Canal, near Byfleet, 

 on March 23rd ult. — W. J. Lucas ; 2, Gordon Road, Kingston-on-Thames. 



Leucophasia sinapis and Mblit^a aetemis in Co. Waterford. — 

 On May 16th I captured two very fresh specimens of L. sinapis. These 

 are the first " wood whites " that I have seen here. I went again to the 

 same place on the two following days, but saw no more. My friend 

 Mr. R. Reynett took one specimen here five years ago. He has been 

 successful in obtaining seven this year. On April 20th last I found, near 

 here, three larvae of MelitcEci artemis. They were feeding on one of their 

 food-plants, Seabiosa succisa. Two of them have already changed to pupse. 

 The third is now hanging suspended and doubled up, preparatory to its 

 change.— (Rev.) William W. Flemyng ; Coolfin, Portlaw, Co. Waterford, 

 May 22nd, 1894. 



Xylomiges coNspiciLLARrs IN WORCESTERSHIRE. — On April 8th I bred 

 a specimen of A^ conspicillaris from a pupa dug in Worcestershire last 

 autumn.— H. Perks; 19, Barrett Street, Manchester Square, W. 



CoLiAS HYALE AT DovERcouRT. — On May 13th inst., which was a bright 

 warm day, I noticed one of these butterflies on the wing. It had apparently 

 just come in from the sea. — Gervase F. Mathew; Dovercourt. 



Paciietra leucoph^a in Surrey. — While collecting with the members 

 of the South London Entomological and Natural History Society, at their 

 field meeting at Reigate yesterday, I had the good fortune to take a female 

 specimen of Pachetm leucophmi at rest on a bank side. The capture is 

 interesting on account of being made in the same district, although not in 

 the immediate neighbourhood, that Mr. Stevens met with the insect nearly 

 forty years ago.— Robt. Adkin ; Lewisham, June 10th, 1894. 



Stigmonota ravulana in Lancashire. — My first excursion to Grange- 

 over-Sands this year was on Saturday last, a bitterly cold and sunless day. 

 No Catoptria aspidiscana, Nejytimlce or Lithocolletis were obtained, but by 

 sweeping the birch twigs I captured plenty of Phlceodes tetraquetrana and 

 some odds and ends, among which I discovered on closer examination, 

 when I arrived home, one specimen of S. ravulana.— i. B. Hodgkinson ; 

 Rosebery House, Ashton-on-Ribble, May 21st, 1894. 



Vanessa cardui common at Tenby. — I am pleased to see hybernated 

 V. cardui about this year in great numbers ; they are by far the most plen- 

 tiful butterfly here at present ; in fact, on some parts of the railway banks 

 they simply swarm, a great contrast to last year, during which I saw but 

 two specimens. Of Colias edusa I have not seen one this year so far. 



ENTOM.— JULY, 1894, S 



