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cisteloides, C. fuscus, C. mollis, Pristonychiis terricola, Pterostichus 

 nigrita, P.niger, Amara aulica, A. communis, Ocypus olens,Byrrhus 

 ceneus, and Geotrupes sylvatica. 



The Lepidoptera are : — Goenonympha pamphihis (the only 

 butterfly), Anaitis plagiata, Grambus cidmellus, Bactra lanceolana, 

 and Glyphiptery.v cladiclla. 



The Trichoptera are : — Limnophilus auricula, Polycentropus 

 irroratus, and Bercea pygmaa. 



The Diptera are: — Microphorus crassipes, DoUchopas atratiis, 

 and D. nuhilis. 



The Hemiptera are: — Lygus pratensis and Athysanus 

 obscurellus. 



The Orthoptera are represented by only Forficula auricularia. 



I can fully endorse Dr. Sharp's remarks of the specimens 

 showing no signs of depauperation, and being scarcely distin- 

 guishable from ordinary English specimens. 



My information comes from an account of the Isle of 

 St. Kilda, by John Macgillivray, 1840; and also from a visit 

 paid there by myself on July 28th, 1883. St. Kilda is the most 

 westerly of the Hebrides, and is situated far out in the bosom of 

 the broad Atlantic, eighty miles west of the Butt of the Lewis, 

 and belongs to Macleod of Macleod. The isle is very bare, being 

 closely fed down with sheep and cattle, and I did not find a single 

 bramble. The cliffs are of stupendous height ; one of them, 

 Conacha, is about 1300 feet high. There are about seventy or 

 eighty inhabitants. An immense number of sea-birds make it 

 their head-quarters, such as solan geese, fulmar petrels, puffins, 

 &c. In 'The Zoologist' for 1886, p. 333, is an account of a 

 new species of wren. I saw it when there, but did not know it was 

 different from the common one. Amongst plants I observed the 

 corn-marigold, primrose, bog-pimpernel, and cotton-rush. 

 Glanvilles Wootton, Sherborn, Dorset, Nov. 5, 1888. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



CoLiAS EDUSA var. — Mr. J. Anderson, jun. (Entora. xxi. "272), speaks 

 of a " primrose-coloured " Colias edusa var. helice in Sussex. It is true that 

 helice is not an albino, but it is not of the vivid yellow characteristic of a 

 well-colourt'd primrose. Will Mr. Anderson give a fuller description of this 

 insect? for if it proves to be a yellow var. of C. edusa, comparable to tbe 

 var. eriphijle of the American C. eurijtlieme (see Entom. xxi. 189), I need 

 hardly say, that its interest and value from a biological point of view is very 

 great.— T. D. A. Cockehell ; West Cliff, Colorado, November 27, 1888. 



Vanessa urtic^. var. — On the 16th of October last my mother caught 

 at Exmoutli, S. Devon, a specimen of Vanessa articawh'xah. strongly resembles 

 the first variety figured in Newman's ' British Butterflies.' The insect is 



