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been exterminated by makers of insect-pictures. Mr. Edward 

 Newman took several specimens in a field on bis father's farm, 

 a few miles from Leominster, Herefordshire, in June 1832, 

 and found it there in the following years. Mrs. Hutchinson, 

 however, searched the same locality about the year 1S5G, and, 

 with her children, in many subsequent years, but was never 

 rewarded by the sight of a single specimen. 



Mr. R. C. L. Perkins tells me that it was at one time found 

 near Wootton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, and his father 

 states that it was not uncommon there up to the year 1858, 

 and occurred elsewhere in that county, and in Somerset, but 

 has not been seen there since. The Rev. J. Greene took it 

 on the Cots wolds in 1819 — two specimens only. The late 

 Mr. Bond recollected it as occurring commonly near Cam- 

 bridge many years ago. The last stragglers in that locality 

 seem to have been captured about 1857-8. It has also been 

 recorded from the New Forest by the late Mr. .J. C. Dale ; but 

 probably its most prolific locality was in the neighbourhood 

 of Mr. Dale's home, Glanville's Wootton, Dorsetshire. There 

 it was plentiful, in several restricted spots, in certain years, up 

 to 1835, and was found in greatly diminished numbers until 

 1841, at which date it seems to have died out. Mr. C. W. 

 Dale furnishes dates and particulars of its occurrences there, 

 from which it is evident that it was most irregular, and 

 sometimes extremely scarce. The very few decent specimens 

 which I am fortunate enough to possess were taken in this 

 favoured locality by the Rev. Henry Burney at that time, 

 and given to me after a lapse of nearly half a century. But 

 the species was to be found more recently in the north-east 

 and also in the west. As late as 1864 Mr. S. Hudson con- 

 tinued to find it, though not commonly, at Epworth, in the 

 north of Lincolnshire. He wrote in the Zoolorjist for that 

 year : '' I find it in meadows, but they are of large extent ; 

 and the insect appearing just before the grass is ready 

 for the mower, prevents a proper search from being made 

 for it." This seems to be the latest record of the insect 



