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Henich-Schaffer, and an addition to the British fauna. The 

 i2ame seems applicable, for the ground colour is bright dark 

 purple, and the double fasciae, as I may call them, are of a 

 bronzy golden hue. When this gem was walking about it 

 reminded me of a very minute Micropteryx albionella, with 

 the markings of M. niansiietella. I have been careful to 

 keep the mines of this novelty separate for reference. — J. B. 

 Hodgkinson; Preston, April 15, 1877. 



Sphinx pinastri. — This afternoon a pupil of mine — T. N. 

 Waller, son of Rev. T. H. Waller, of Waldringfield Rectory, 

 near Woodbridge, Suffolk — brought me a moth to look at, 

 which he told me had been taken by the gardener on a tree 

 in his father's garden last Midsummer. I immediately recog- 

 nised it as a fair, though not first-rate, specimen of Sphinx 

 pinastri. — (Rev.) A. H. Wratislaw ; School Hall, Bury St. 

 Edmund's, April 17, 1877. 



CoLiAS Edusa var. Hklick. — I may mention that during 

 a short stay in the Isle of Wight, in August last, I secured — 

 among numbers of typical Colias Edusa and C. Hyale — two 

 very fine specimens of the var. Helice of the former. They 

 were both taken in a clover field, near Ventnor, 1 believe 

 Mr. Rogers, of Freshwater, to be mistaken in saying Helice 

 was common there last autumn (Entom, ix. 231). He told 

 me that he considered the white var. of C. Hyale identical 

 with Helice. This probably explains their abundance. — 

 Bernard Cooper; Fern Lodge, Higham Hill, Walthamstow, 

 January 17, 1877. 



Lycaina Arion. — The notes which you have published on 

 Lycmna Avion in the ' Entomologist' make me think that 

 perhaps it may interest your readers to have an account of 

 the insect by one who has observed it in another of its 

 haunts, the Cotswolds, especially as my experience is rather 

 different from that of Mr. Mathew. The first time I saw 

 L. Arion was on June 20th, 1870. There were numbers flying 

 about, many in good condition, but some already worn ; and I 

 have no doubt the insect might have been taken a week or ten 

 days earlier, that is about June 10th, while the date on which 

 Mr. Mathew took the insect that same year was July 7th. I 

 have since observed L. Arion in the same place on June loth, 

 1871 ; June 21st, 1873 ; and June 18th, 1874. You will see, 

 therefore, that 1 put the right time to look for the insect 



