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mystified me greatly. I now apprehend that, although decidedly a variable 

 insect, H. hispida is not the protean species I had been led to suppose it 

 was, and that beyond a greater or lesser amount of pigment in coloration, 

 and more or less intense markings, there is really no exceptional departure 

 from typical lines, such, for instance, as possessing "a bifurcate transverse 

 median line, extending under orbicular to the reniform and the central part 

 of the basal nervures." — Richard South ; 12, Abbey Gardens, St. John's 

 Wood, N.W. 



Catocala fraxini in Kent. — Having noticed the announcement of 

 one or two captures of Catocala fraxini this year, I think it may interest 

 you to know that when sugaring in a garden on the banks of the Medway 

 below Rochester on Sept. 1st and 2nd last year, one specimen came to sugar 

 on each night, I should think probably the same insect on each occasion. 

 Being a novice in Entomology, both nights being very dark, not having a 

 box large enough, its shyness, and my natural excitement, it may be 

 excusable that under the circumstances I was not clever enough to capture 

 it. I searched the garden and walls early the following morning, but 

 without success, and have not ceased to bewail my fate, as I do not suppose 

 I shall have such a chance again. When I heard, during the second week 

 of last month, that C. fraxini had been taken in other parts, I went to the 

 Medway and sugared energetically, but not a moth of any kind, rare or 

 common, came to the call. — Mark H. Winkley; 9, Glen Eldon Road, 

 Coventry Park, Streatham, S.W., Oct. 1, 1889. 



Ennomos autumnaria. — On Monday, 9th September last, whilst 

 spending a day at Hayling Island, I took a female specimen of Ennomos 

 autumnaria at rest on the gate-post of a private house within a short 

 distance of the sea-shore. By a curious coincidence, on the following 

 Monday morning, 16th September, I took a male specimen of the same 

 species on a lamp-post in Portsmouth town. The insects, which I have 

 carefully compared with the two specimens in the Doubleday collection, are 

 of 2| and If inches expanse respectively. — C. B. Smith; 58 Rectory 

 Road, Stoke Newington, N., Oct. 10, 1889. 



Emmelesia unifasciata, Deferred EMERaENCE. — I was not aware 

 that this species remained in the pupa-state for more than one year, but 

 have found that such is the fact. In 1887 my kind friend Mr. Sheldon, of 

 Addiscombe, handed me some pupae, which all but about six emerged as 

 imagines in 1888 ; but from these, six moths put in an appearance this year. 

 Again, last season (1888) I obtained larvae of E. unifasciata, which in due 

 course changed into pupae, and the perfect insects emerged in July last, 

 with the exception of six or eight, which are still healthy-looking pupae, 

 and will, I suppose, remain over until next season. — J. R. Wellman ; 

 8, Medora Road, Brixton Hill, S.W.. Oct. 4, 1889. 



Lepidoptera of two Dorset Chalk-hills. — Almost everyone is 

 acquainted with the fact that Dorsetshire is rich in British and Roman 

 remains, notably the splendid Roman encampments, every hill almost 

 being capped with extensive earthworks ; the entrenchments on some 

 being to the present day more than thirty feet deep. Upwards of twenty 

 such hill-fortresses are known upon the north and south downs of the 

 county, and in the vicinity of most are usually to be seen the remains of 



