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seeing the second brood of this butterfly. Although I carefully searched, 

 for over two months, all our local downs, warrens and chalk-pits, I failed to 

 find a single specimen of the autumn brood of either L. bellarfjus, L. 

 astrarche, or L. minima. L. conjdon was plentiful in August. It would 

 be interesting to know whether this absence has been general, or only 

 local ; also wliether the pupse, which should have produced the second 

 brood, are lying over to form the first brood for next year. — John Tyber ; 

 27, Jeffry Street, New Brorapton, Kent. 



Thecla w-album tn Oxfordshire. — In 18G8 I discovered a locahty 

 in South Oxfordshire for Thecla iv-album. So abundant was it then 

 I could have taken very large quantities. The spot specially selected by 

 them was a considerable clearing in a beech wood, where plenty of brambles 

 grew. I remember well the great numbers attracted by its bloom. Some of 

 the examples I then took I have still. I have never visited (owing to long 

 absence) the spot since for T. iv-album, till last July, when Mr. William 

 Holland and myself went to my old collecting-ground, hoping to 

 re-discover its haunts. Instead of the spacious clearing which once 

 existed, a remnant alone remained, some twenty yards square ; the rest was 

 ploughed land, but on and within a few yards of the small part left we 

 netted nearly fifty specimens. Considering the old habitat had been 

 nearly destroyed, we thought ourselves exceptionally fortunate in securing 

 so many. These are, I believe, the only recorded captures of T. lo-alhum 

 in Oxfordshire, and if so, adds another butterfly to the county list. I may 

 add that wych-elm grows sparingly among the beech at one end of the wood. 

 — J. Clarke ; Reading, January 9, 1889. 



Deilephila galii in Lancashire. — On July QTth I caught a speci- 

 men of D. rjalii here, flying over some white campion at dusk. Next day 

 my son caught another, some two miles farther north, flying over some rest- 

 harrow, at 11 a.m., in bright sunshine. One of the boys caugbt another 

 at dusk, on some honeysuckle. During the latter end of September, I was 

 lucky enough to find seven larvae at Lytham, and on Sept. 27th Mr. Irving, 

 the head master of this school, found one in the grass in front of the school 

 here. These localities range over a stretch of about four miles along 

 the Lancashire coast. — T. Baxter ; Collegiate School, St. Anne's-ou-the- 

 Sea, via Preston. 



Sesia musciformis in Scotland. — I took about a dozen pupae of the 

 thrift clearwing, on the Scotch coast, in June last. — W. R. Scowcroft ; 

 Fern Lea, Gardner Road, Prestwich. 



Lithosl\ complana on the Coast. — In reply to Mr. Jeffery's note 

 (Enlom. xxi. 322). I may say that as several years ago I bred L. complana 

 from the larva, it evidently frequents the coast, and feeds on stone-lichens. 

 I liave had two larvae since, but was not fortunate enough to bring them 

 through. — W. R. Scowcroft ; Fern Lea, Gardner Road, Prestwich, 

 Manchester. 



Food of Lithosia complana. — With respect to Mr. Jeffrey's query 

 (Entom. xxi. 332), I find the following note in ' Entomologist's Weekly 

 Intelligencer,' vii. 188 ; — " L. complana. Bred from four larvae found feeding 

 on lichens on decayed ash. They did not answer to the description given in 



