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me), a fair amount of success. Sugar was very unproductive, 

 and a few Hadena reclilinea, Noctua conflua, and dark 

 Cymatophora duplaris, were all that I got for uiy trouble in 

 that line. On the hills, however, I got Psodos trepidaria, 

 Larentia caesiata, Coreuiia raunitata, Larentia salicata, 

 Melanthia ocellata, Cidaria iramanata, Scopula alpinalis, 

 and many others. In the Black Wood, Fidonia pine- 

 taria was not out, but Acidalia fumata, Boarmia repandata, 

 and Larentia caesiata, were common, and there were many 

 Tortrices out as well, which Dr. White worked very success- 

 fully ; but, as I had a fearful headache on the day we visited 

 the wood, I must plead guilty to having been lazy on that 

 occasion. Near Kinloch, Emraelesia blandiata and Lycsna 

 Artaxerxes were out, and Lycsena Alexis was very con- 

 spicuous on the banks. I also saw, ne'ar the end of my stay, 

 July 12th, a hybernated specimen of Vanessa Urticae. — ./. C. 

 Wassennann ; Cullercoats. 



Apaturd Iris (Entom. viii. 159). — This butterfly we occa- 

 sionally see in a wood in this neighbourhood. I was away 

 from home last year while the insect was out; but it was 

 observed several times by my father, the late Mr. Thomas 

 Bentall, feeding on dead moles, and he succeeded in capturing 

 one specimen (a male) at this high-flavoured food. I have 

 to-day bred a specimen (a female) from a larva beaten from 

 sallow on the 5lh of June, and which became a pupa on the 

 15lh. — S. R. Bentall; Nightingale Hall, Halstead, Essex. 



Apaiura Iris (Entom. viii. 159). — 1 may say that on 

 July 15, 1857, in the Farnham district, 1 took nine males from 

 oaks with a hoop-net tied to a long pole, one other male on 

 the ground, and two females flying near the ground. 1 have 

 reason therefore to say that on that occasion the pole was of 

 much service. — Frederic Walker. 



Apatura Iris (Entom. viii. 159). — I was interested in 

 reading the note by Mr. Anderson concerning this species. 

 My experience would go to prove that there are times when 

 the insect adopts the same mode of flight as other butterflies. 

 Last July (1874) was dry in the early part, at least here, and 

 the wind rose generally at sunset, so that there was but little 

 dew deposited; and, sure enough, while this dry time lasted 

 A. Iris flew low down, as if searching for the moisture it 

 might otherwise expect to find on the leaves of oak, &c. I 



