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captured six, and a friend one, without any difficulty ; they 

 all seemed too much engrossed in the search for something to 

 take much notice of our approach. — f^V. Jagger ; St. Ives, 

 Hunts. 



Argynnis Niohe near Canlerhury. — On the 29th of June I 

 had the good fortune to take a fine male of this beautiful 

 insect, and to-day have succeeded in taking a second speci- 

 men, which I believe must be a variety, it being without 

 silver spots, but of a dull yellow colour. I believe I saw a 

 third, but cannot speak with certainty, as Aglaia are so like 

 them when on the wing. I have Shown this last one alive 

 to a collector here. — G. Parry; Church Street, St. Pauls, 

 Canterbury, July 6, 1875. 



[It is the variety Eris of Argynnis Niobe. — E. Newman.] 



Clioerocampa Elpenor, dc, at Sugar. — Last evening, June 

 22nd, 1 obtained four specimens of Chcerocampa Elpenor at 

 sugar; three were hovering at one tree, and taken by one 

 sweep of the net. On one tree I counted seventy-three insects, 

 all common species. I do not think I shall over-state it in 

 saying that Agrotis corticea and A. exclamationis came by 

 thousands, and Triphaena pronuba by hundreds. I captured 

 two fresh Xylocampa lithorhiza, which seems to give this 

 insect a wide range, as I took it here in February. Can there 

 be a second brood? The only good thing taken here this 

 season was one specimen of Notodonta Chaonia. I should 

 mention that I laid the sugar on early, and that the Chcero- 

 campa Elpenor were taken before I lighted up; the evening 

 was close, and without a breath of wind. — [Rev.] A. C. 

 Hervey ; Bulleigh Vicarage, Glastonbury Somerset. 



Anticlea sinuata. — On the 19th of June I had the pleasure 

 of finding in one of my breeding-cages a beautiful female 

 Anticlea sinuata. When 1 was away from home in East 

 Kent, last August, I found a caterpillar on Galium verum, 

 with which I was not acquainted; but on the appearance of 

 the perfect insect a reference to 'British Moths' connected 

 the one with the other, and told me the caterpillar 1 had 

 found was that of A. sinuata. — \_Rev.] P. H. Jennings. 



Larva of Pterophorus rlwdodaclylus. — On the 26th of May 

 last the Rev. T. W. Daltry, of Madeley, and myself, took the 

 larvae of Pterophorus rhododactylus very freely in a wood in 

 North Kent. We went in the hope of finding the larva) of 



