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the insect which I propose to name C adjanctella is a shorter 

 winged insect and of an olive-brown ground shade, it is clearly 

 distinct from cccsjntitiella by the white streak that runs along the 

 costa; also the wings are more arched, and in fine specimens 

 there is almost an absence of streaks ; the antennae are much 

 darker, nearly black, and more robust than in C. ccesjntltiella. 

 The food of the larva has yet to be discovered ; there were neither 

 rushes nor Luzula about that I remember ; we bad to get them 

 by creeping on our hands and knees, the place being too bare to 

 sweep, and had to place our backs against the wind when we 

 wanted to box any of the specimens. 

 15, Spring Bauk, Preston, December, 1881. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



HeSPERIA PaNISCUS and OTHER LePIDOPTERA NEAR LiNCOLN. 



— In a wood about seven or eight miles from Lincoln, while 

 hunting for Coleoptera, on June 2nd last, I saw Hesperia Paniscus 

 evidently not uncommon in one locality. On two subsequent 

 occasions I visited the wood, but each time a thunderstorm, fol- 

 lowed by heavy rain, came on just as we reached it, and stopped 

 our operations ; we, however, took one specimen each time, 

 showing that it was still out, and I have no doubt that the insect 

 was fairly plentiful. Hesperia Tages and one or two other 

 " skippers " are also found in the same wood, as well as three or 

 four species of Argynnis, and, above all, Apatura Iris, which I am 

 told at some seasons may almost be called abundant in that 

 locality. This is evidently not a rare species near Lincoln. One 

 was captured this summer in the suburbs on a bed of Zinnia 

 flowers in the garden of a friend of mine, and another was seen 

 flying almost in the town. Arge Galathea is very abundant in a 

 field near the wood above alluded to, and I took one specimen in 

 a drive in the wood itself; the commonest butterfly seems to be 

 Satyrus Hyperanthus. Mr. Baxter, taxidermist, of Lincoln, who 

 kindly pointed out to me the locality, has shown me specimens 

 of and given me notes about the following, as all taken by himself 

 or his friend Mr. Meade in or near the same wood : — Notodonta 

 dict(Soides, not uncommon ; Notodonta dictoea, rare ; Ampliydasis 

 prodromaria ; Eurymene dolahraria ; Ennomos erosaria (this, I 



