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took in about eight days. This year I have not taken so 

 many: although 1 have worked vei'y hard for them 1 have 

 only taken twenty, and about one-half of these were bad 

 specimens ; the females are almost sure to be good. No one 

 could be taken in with continental specimens of P. leucophaea, 

 as they differ from ours as uuich as though they were two 

 distinct species : our specimens are very pale, being almost 

 white ; the marks are quite white, especially along the hind 

 margin of the wings ; whereas the foreign specimens are 

 larger and very much darker in colour, even on the under 

 side. I will now mention Nonagria albipuncta, the third 

 specimen known, which I took in a pine wood, August 12th, 

 1869, and sent alive to Dr. Harper, of Hyde Park; on 

 the 16th I took one; on the 17th, one; on the 19th, three. 

 I also sent one or two of the others off alive. In 1870 I took 

 eleven fine specimens in our Blean, Hospital, and Pine Woods ; 

 in 1871, a collector, named Edney, and I took upwards of 

 twenty, mostly fine; in 1872, only nine specimens; and in 

 1873, only five specimens between two of us. I may add that 

 had we worked well we could have taken upwards of a 

 hundred in 1871. In conclusion, if any private gentleman is 

 in want of the above-named three species, I shall be but too 

 happy to take him to my hunting-ground, where I can 

 promise he shall take them himself. — G. Parry, Church 

 Street, St. PauVs, Canterbin)/, December 1, 1873. 



D. conspersa and D. compia (Entom. vi. 518, 546, 564). — 

 In reply to Mr. Meek's singularly inaccurate and illogical 

 paper, permit me to answer him categorically. First, then, I 

 never asked if D. compta was British. I wished that some 

 one would place so-called British (Irish?) specimens (.?) in a 

 relaxing-box, &c., and never showed him a Dianthoecia 

 compta, or said I took one on the Big Hill of Howth, in 

 Wales, or elsewhere ; lie and others called my Penmaenbach 

 var. of Conspersa, Compta ; not I ; and I am quite sure no 

 amount of placing it in a damp box will ever make it Compta. 

 I think your readers perfectly understand what he pretends 

 puzzles him, hence I need not pursue that phantom, but 

 proceed at once to show that Mr. Warrington cannot help me 

 much. He (Mr. Warrington) says, in reply to my question : 

 — " 1 have seen the remarks about Compta and Conspersa in 

 the ' Entomologist.' 1 recollect picking out Conspersa in 



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