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holly, which grows in greater abundance there than at any other place 

 that I am aware of in the county. — T. quercus. Chiefly at Sutton. 



Lyccsna argiolus. Generally distributed in the holly-bounded lanes 

 around Hall Green and Yardley Wood ; plentiful near Coleshill ; in 

 Sutton Park during some years it absolutely swarms. Have never 

 seen the second brood here. — L. agon. Heaths in Sutton Park, also 

 near Coleshill ; but is often scarce. — L. acis. Occurred around Shirley 

 many years ago, but picture dealers and others have long banished the 

 species. — L. icarus. Common everywhere in the rural district. 



Polyommatus phlceas. In abundance; "bleached" examples are 

 frequent in Sutton Park, chiefly females. The males often have the 

 coppery colour much intensified, and the black edging of the wings 

 considerably widened. 



Syrichthus malvcc. Plentiful. 



Tkanaos tages. Local ; railway embankment, Sutton Park, and 

 elsewhere. 



Hesperia linea. Common. 



H. si/ 1 nanus. The commonest "skipper." — Augustus D. Imms ; 

 "Linthurst," Oxford Koad, Moseley, near Birmingham. 



Epione parallelaria, Schiff. ( = E. vespertaeia, St.) in Scotland and 

 the North of England. — With reference to the notes on the capture of 

 this moth in Scotland, which have appeared in the last two numbers of 

 the 'Entomologist,' it may not be without interest to record that I have 

 a specimen — a rather worn female — which I took at Newham Bog, in 

 North Northumberland, on Aug. 20th, 1890. This is the only instance 

 in which I have met with this insect in this district, but, as 1 have else- 

 where pointed out ('History of Berwickshire Naturalists' Club.' vol. xv. 

 p. 299), there is a record for Learmouth Bog so long ago as July 30th, 

 1863. Learmouth is not more than a mile, as the crow flies, from the 

 Scottish border, and about eighteen miles from Newham. I have not 

 seen the Ent. Mo. Mag. containing the Hawick records, but further 

 particulars of the captures would, I am sure, be of interest to North 

 Country entomologists. — George Bolam; Berwick-on-T weed, Jan. 10th. 



Heliothis armigera in South Devon. — I have read with much 

 inierest your paper on H. armigera. I think there can be no doubt 

 that this insect is truly indigenous in S. Devon. It was taken 

 regularly for years, between 1860 and 1870, at Torquay, by Mr. Terry, 

 a famous local entomologist, at ivy bloom ; and in October, 1869, I 

 saw a specimen that had been taken on the previous night at arbutus 

 flowers, by another entomologist, who told me that he took one or two 

 every year. This, of course, was before tomatoes were imported in 

 any very large quantity, and I do not think that imported tomatoes 

 were much sent into S. Devon at that time. Last August, about the 

 15th, the Rev. Dobree Fox and myself took one specimen at sugar in 

 S. Devon, which fell to his share, and which is now in his cabinet. It 

 was taken close to a barley field, in which was an undergrowth of clover. 

 I think that following the reaping machine in similar fields might lead 

 to the capture of more specimens, but fine w-eather would be necessary, 

 and that we did not often get. — F. C. Woodforde ; Market Drayton, 

 Salop, Jan. 2nd, 1898. 



