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Ireland is the Rev. H. H. Crewe, by whom it was supposed to 

 have been seen at Powerscourt, Co. Wicklow. Argynnis Selene, 

 not included as Irish in Dr. White's list, has been taken at 

 Edenderr}', Queen's County, as mentioned by Mr. Birchall (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., vol. xiv., p. 311). — [Rev.] William W. Flemyng; 

 Portlaw, Co. Waterford, December 2, 1881. 



Entomological Notes from Dover. — While collecting at 

 Dover, in August, we found a great many butterflies out, and 

 counted in all over twenty different species on the wing during 

 that month ; and this only on the cliffs east of the town. The 

 locality was absolutely swarming with Lyccena Corydon and L. 

 Alexis, and many good varieties of both were taken. Polyommatus 

 PhUeas was common, but not in such profusion; and of L. Alsus 

 we only captured two specimens ; this might, however, be owing 

 to the prevalence of windy weather. The freshly emerged 

 imagines of Vanessa Atalanta, V. lo, and V. cardui were just 

 beginning to put in an appearance, and on the 15th and 20th of 

 August we took two males of Colias Edusa in a lucerne-field by 

 the East Cliff. C. Edusa does not seem to be plentiful this 

 season, as only those two were seen during our three weeks' stay. 

 On the grassy slopes at the Zigzag Cliffs, near South Foreland 

 Lighthouse, Argynnis Aglaia and Satyrus Semele were to be found, 

 but both rather worn ; we managed, however, to get two or three 

 of the former in fair condition ; and in the same locality we took 

 Hesperia Sylvanus, H. comma, and H. linea, the first-named being 

 the commonest of the three. With regard to moths, we did very 

 little, being unable to do anything in the way of sugar or light ; 

 and only a few Geometry and day-flying Noctuae fell to our lot. 

 Fidonia atomaria and Aspilates gilvaria were common among 

 the grass and herbage on the cliffs, and Bryophila perla was 

 rather plentiful, being found at rest in the eai-ly morning on 

 walls, houses, &c., in the town ; but of B. glandifera we saw 

 nothing. Perhaps the most common of all was Zygcena fili- 

 pendulcs ; it was a usual occurrence to see three or four of them 

 on a single flower-head of scabious or knapweed, and the cocoons 

 abounded everywhere ; some that we noticed were fixed to the 

 chalk- cliffs somewhat in the manner of a Pieris chrysalis. — T. 

 Gowland; Enfield Buildings, N., October 6, 1881. 



Lepidoptera in the Isle of Purbeck. — I am not aware 

 that any list of the insects occurring in the Isle of Purbeck has 



