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N. Elyuii : I took it in the hope of obtaining eggs, but in this 

 was disappointed, as she died without depositing eggs. 

 Halonota giandaevana, ZelL, came out towards the end of 

 June, and is becoming more ])lentiful than when I first met 

 with it three years ago. Gelechia gracilelUi : ever since I 

 took the first specimens of this insect, in 1870, I have done 

 my best to make it common ; but up to the present season I 

 have not obtained more than a dozen specimens; the locality 

 where I took most of them has been taken for building 

 ground, and the hedge-rows replaced with brick walls. There 

 yet remain two other places where it has occurred singly, 

 and where I hope to obtain specimens for my friends.— 

 Cliristopher Eales ; Laygale Slreel, August 10, 1875. 



Captures near Buxto)i. — On the 9th of August I had an 

 hour on the moors, near the ' Cat and Fiddle,' a country inn 

 about five miles from Buxton. I was not over well prepared 

 lor collecting, and had only about forty boxes with uie, 

 which I filled with about twenty-four Penthina sauciana, 

 and the rest with Peronea Caledoniana and Pe. Geminana. 

 1 never saw more iusects. The patch of Vaccinium was 

 literally alive with those and other species. I should not 

 have gone but for meeting with Mr. \V. C. Boyd, of Ches- 

 hunt; and he called my attention to P. sauciana. I never 

 before met with this insect. — J. B. Hodgkinson ; 15, Spring 

 Bank, Preston, August 6, 1875. 



Vanessa Antiopa near Asliford. — It may interest your 

 entomological readers to hear that I caught a good specimen 

 of Vanessa Antiopa in the village-street at Wye, near Ash- 

 fbrd, Kent, last Saturday, August 14th. — .S'. R. JSIajendie ; 

 C/tartham, Canterbury. — Front the ' FieldJ' 



Vanessa Antiopa near Wells, Norfolk. — While driving 

 yesterday in the neighbourhood of Wells, in Norfolk, I saw a 

 fine specimen of Vanessa Antiopa, which my father secured 

 with his hat. It is a fresh and perfect specimen. I believe 

 that several were killed on this coast three years ago. — Cyril 

 Dighy ; Buxton. — From I lie ' Field.'' 



Vanessa Antiopa at Chertney. — If it can interest British 

 (mlomologists, 1 beg to inform you that I caught on St. Ann's 

 Hill, Chertsey, Surrey, on the 10th of August, on a windy and 

 cloudy afternoon, a sj^lendid specimen of Vanessa Antiopa. — 

 Alexander ]Vailly ; 110, Claphaui Iioad, S.PV., August '2\, 

 1875. 



