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and dark forms. During the latter half of the month A. pistacina 

 appeared. This moth exhibited varieties leading from the type to the 

 uuicolorous and nearly spotless bright-chestnut form. On the other 

 hand, an intermediate pattern was so spotted as to strikingly remind 

 one of Basrjcampa nih'Kjhu'a. A few Kpitnda liitulcnta, all nearly black, 

 were also taken during the month. My best capture, however, was 

 on the 9th, a very fair specimen of Heliothis armujera. It is un- 

 doubtedly of British nationality, straw-coloured, instead of the dark 

 form I always rear, say a month earlier, from larvse found in foreign 

 tomatoes. According to Mr. Walker's list, this is the second capture 

 of the species in the district. P. festuca occurred again at the lamps, 

 Sept. 9th, fresh from the chrysalis ; and on the 21st one Agmtis saucia. 

 A grand male Dasypolin templi turned up on Oct. 10th. Winter 

 weather set in on Nov. 13th, with alternate rain, snow, and frost up 

 to the 26th, when mild weather prevailed and brought out Pcecilocmnpa 

 populi. Some individual examples of certain species occurred on such 

 extraordinary dates that they suggest second broods ; they were as 

 follows : — Hcpiaius hitmiili, a small but fresh female, August 24th ; 

 Spilosoina tnentkastri, Sept. 2ad ; Portkesia sii)iilis = auriftua, Sept. 8th. 

 J. Arkle ; Chester. 



Notes from Dorking for the Season of 1901. — Of the four 

 seasons that I have lived in this neighbourhood, the one just past has 

 been far and away the best. I have worked hardest, like most of 

 those who are, comparatively speaking, beginners in entomology, 

 among the Diurni, intending to pay more attention to the Nocturni 

 when the former are more complete. I will go through in order the 

 forty-one species which I have taken here. Of course Pieris brassicte, 

 rapcE, and napi were in profusion, the first-named perhaps less so than 

 is the case sometimes. EncJdoe cdrdamines I took in plenty, especially 

 males, from May 7th till May 23rd. Colias ediisa was far from being 

 so common as last year, only one specimen coming in my way, and 

 that I did not take. C. hyaJe was seen on August 7th, and again on 

 the 12th, when I got a male in good condition. Goneptenjx rhamni, 

 for some reason or other, was far from common in the later summer, 

 though the hybernated specimens were very plentiful from April 1st 

 till the beginning of May. Among the Nymphalid^ I was very 

 successful, for besides breeding a fine series of Argynnis paphia, I took 

 A. aylaia and A. adippe in splendid condition from the beginning of 

 July till about the middle of that month. A. selene and A. euphrosyne 

 were also plentiful enough about the end of May. My A. paphia larvae 

 began to pupate on May 21tli, and went on doing so till June 9tli. 

 The first imago appeared on June iOth, and the last on June 25th. 

 Among the Vanessas, the larvae of V. urtica were swarming during 

 May and the first week in June, the first pupa appearing on June 4th, 

 and the first imago on June 17th. V. pnlychloros occurred in greater 

 numbers than I have previously experienced. The hybernated speci- 

 mens were quite common during the first fortnight of April ; the 

 larvae emerged from ova on May 13th and 14th, and pupated from 

 June 10th to the 14th. The imagines came out from June 29th till 

 July 2nd. I regard the profusion of this insect to be one of the 

 events of the year. But the other members of the genus were con- 



