158 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



with the dry heat of the African desert. To add also to their 

 series of calamities, the chinch-bug destroyed in many 

 places those crops that the locusts spared," 



Edward Newman. 



(To be continued.) 



Entomological Notes, Captures, 8fc. 



Captures in Sowersetshire. — Lately I have become the 

 possessor of Newman's ' British Butterflies,' and am some- 

 what surprised to find this county mentioned so seldom. I 

 attribute it to the fact — as Mr. Corbin states in his paper in 

 the 'Entomologist' (Entom. viii. 139) — "that unworked 

 localities, when brought under the inspection of the entomo- 

 logist, often produce the greatest number of rarities." In our 

 (this) neighbourhood I am continually finding species I had 

 no idea were to be found : e.g., in the autumn of last season 

 I had the good fortune to turn up a pair of Lycaena Corydon, 

 in good condition, in Orchard Wood, near this town, where 

 no chalk was nearer (to my knowledge) than Dorset j true 

 there is a lime-quarry about a mile or two from the wood. 

 Last week in the same wood I was gladly surprised to take a 

 pair of Melitaea Artemis in splendid condition ; a few speci- 

 mens were taken by Mr. A. J. Spiller in 1865, but I have 

 visited the locality regularly, and have no knowledge of its 

 having turned up since until last week. A few days after- 

 wards I happened to be hunting in the Neroche Forest, or, I 

 should say, on the marshy grounds around the forest, and 

 took fourteen specimens of M. Artemis, and could have taken 

 dozens more, but all my boxes were filled with Nemeobius 

 Lucina, Thecla Kubi, Leucophasia Sinapis, and Fidonia 

 Atomaria. Now, M. Artemis might annually be found in 

 Neroche, but last week was my first visit to the place; 

 probably as the season advances I might turn up some other 

 insect unknown as a Somersetshire species. Unfortunately, I 

 am unable to visit the forest after dark : it is some distance 

 from the town, but I have heard of Eurymene dolobraria, 

 Angerona prunaria, and Geometra papilionaria, having been 

 taken there. Last season 1 took G. papilionaria, A. prunaria, 

 Thyalira Batis, and Gonophora derasa, at Orchard Wood. 



