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gentlemen, but I never seed one before, there!" would seem to 

 confirm this idea. From a conservative point of view this remark 

 was very satisfactory. — E. Sabine ; 17, The Villas, Erith. 



Lyc^na Bcetica near Bournemouth. — I have to record a 

 most interesting addition to the Diurni of this locality during the 

 present week. On Monday last, Oct. 2nd, it appears that Miss 

 Staples, daughter of Lady Staples, residing in Bournemouth, 

 went out on the moor opposite the West Railway -station for the 

 purpose of obtaining a red admiral to sketch and paint, when she 

 saw and netted what she at first supposed — from its size, colour, 

 and manner of flight — to be a common blue, but which to her 

 surprise turned out to be a veritable specimen of L. Bcetica. As 

 Miss Staples is not making any collection of Lepidoptera herself, 

 she has, after painting the specimen, kindly presented it to me, 

 with a detailed statement of all the circumstances connected with 

 its capture. That there may be no doubt as to the identity of the 

 species I purpose submitting the specimen to the inspection of 

 Mr. Carrington, who will, I hope, favour us with an editorial 

 note. — W. McRae ; Westbourne House, Bournemouth, October 

 7, 1882. 



[The specimen sent was a veritable L. Bcetica. — J. T. C] 



On the Emergence of Butterflies. — Mr. J. N. Pierce, of 

 Liverpool, has favoured me with the following communication in 

 reply to my note on Apatura Iris in the ' Entomologist' (xv. 188), 

 in which I desired information respecting the habit of different 

 species of butterflies, upon their emergence, clinging, or not, to 

 the empty chrysalis-case, and more especially as to the reversal of 

 their position on the puparium after a certain time, as noticed in 

 the case of Apatura Iris. It may be interesting to others, as well 

 as to myself, to know the result of his observations, and I there- 

 fore forward them : — " With reference to your note in the 

 'Entomologist,' I have just finished breeding a quantity of 

 Vanessa lo, V. urticce, and Erehia Medea, and notice this : — 

 Va7iessa To. — Many of these imagines on emerging cling to the 

 pupa-case ; but not in every case, some going to the side, — these 

 may go after their wings are developed, ^ — and remain clinging to 

 the empty pupa-sliell wings downward. I have not noticed any 

 reverse their position, and do not think they do so. Vanessa 

 urticce. — Some leave the pupa and go to the side of the breeding- 





