204 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



time, of its rarity in Lincolnshire. I never remember butter- 

 flies so scarce as they are this year, and this has generally 

 been i-eraarked in this neighbourhood. I spent ten days last 

 month on the highest part of the Shap Fells, in Westmoreland, 

 and although I sometimes walked twenty miles a day, and 

 was constantly out of doors, scarcely came across a single 

 butterfly of any description. One of my boys is collecting 

 butterflies and moths, so that I was constantly on the look 

 out, and did not overlook any. — John Cordeaux ; Great 

 Cotes, Ulcehy, Lincolnshire, August 4, 1874. 



Hepialiis Velleda at Horsham, Sussex. — It may be inte- 

 resting to entomologists to know that on the 15th August I 

 found in the house a fine specimen of a female of the above 

 species, which had been observed fluttering upon the blind 

 of an open window the previous morning, and had probably 

 flown in. I had always understood this to be quite a nortliern 

 insect. The common brake is very abundant in the neigh- 

 bourhood. — David Price. 



Food-plant of Orgia gonosiigma. — I wish to set right a 

 small mistake in respect to the food-plant of Orgyiagonostigma. 

 It states in some works that this species feeds on oak, but I 

 find it feeds on blackthorn and hawthorn, the latter being 

 preferred. — Henry Robinson; 23, Court 6 House, Gosford 

 Street, Coventry. 



Deiopeia pulchella in Sussex. — A young lady friend, who 

 was looking over my collection of Lepidoptera a week or two 

 back, noticed a specimen of this insect in my collection, which 

 was taken in Somersetshire, September, 1848, and observed 

 she had taken a moth like it about a month back. I asked 

 her if she was quite certain, and she said she was, and sure 

 enough she was right, for on my calling to see the specimen 

 found it to be in fair condition and perfect, but a pale 

 example. She took me to the spot two days ago, which is in 

 a field of mixed herbage, surrounded by ditches, lying 

 between Poling and Little Hampton, in Sussex, and not, I 

 should have supposed, a very likely spot. She has kindly 

 added the specimen to my collection. On referring she finds 

 it was taken on the afternoon of^the 28th of June: it flew up 

 out of a patch of the Lotus corniculatus, and settled on a 

 thistle. Being only a young collector she was not aware of 

 the rarity at the time, so did not search for more. It must be 



