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the nativity of the species. It was most unfortunate that I had 

 made arrangements to visit friends in the Midland Counties, 

 and was due at Dr. Baly's, at Warwick, at 4 p.m. I had just 

 time to show the species alive to Mr. Cooke, and, on ray 

 arrival here, to Dr. Baly, who saw it quite fresh, it having 

 just died. The specimen has evidently been taken on the 

 wing, and is in fair order, but very different in condition to a 

 bred specimen. Mr. P. informs me it flies in company with 

 Aglaia on the slopes of one of the highest hills in Kent, and 

 cannot be distinguished from that species till captured. — 

 Samuel Stevens; Warwick, July 10, 1874. 



[Although Argynnis Niobe has been previously recorded 

 as a British insect, by the Rev. W. Hambrough, at p. 351 of 

 the sixth volume of the 'Entomologist,' on the authority of a 

 specimen taken in the New Forest, by Mr. Gerrard, in 1868, 

 and again at p. 30 of my ' Illustrated Natural History of 

 British Butterflies,' these additional captures are particularly 

 interesting. — Edward Newt}ian.] 



Vanessa Polychloros at Westhury-on-Trym. — I write to 

 inform you that I captured here, on the 31st of May, a 

 specimen of Vanessa Polychloros (the great tortoiseshell) : it 

 was rubbed and slightly chipped. — Edward R. Pease ; Cote 

 Bank, Westhury-on-Trym, Bristol, June 11, 1874. 



Limenitis Sibylla at Hendon. — I have just taken a speci- 

 men of Limenitis Sibylla (in fair condition) : it was flying 

 along a hedge by the road-side, about half a mile from this 

 place. — R. South; Goldbeater's Farm, Mill Hill, Hendon, 

 July 14, 1874. 



fheda W-Album on the Flowers of the Lime Tree. — My 

 pupils and myself took about thirty specimens yesterday of 

 Thecla W-Album on the flowers of the lime tree. I cannot 

 say why they should seek this tree particularly, as there are 

 only two in my grounds, and I do not know of any others 

 near. They settled on the flowers, and were at first very 

 easily caught. — \Rev?\ John W. Mills; St. Lawrence Rec- 

 tory, Maldon, Essex, July 15, 1874. 



Thecla Pruni in Buckinghamshire. — On the 4lh July, 

 being at Linford Wood, taking Trycheris mediana for a 

 correspondent, I captured several specimens of Thecla 

 Pruni, on flowers of the privet, mostly females; and as there 

 is no record of it being taken in Bucks, perhaps you may 



