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typhon, S. malvce, N. tages, H. sylvanus. Wild strawberries were 

 in countless thousands, and delightfully cool and refreshing in 

 the hot sun, whilst a long range of blue hills along the horizon 

 was equally so to the eye. 



Before taking leave of this first portion of our trip, I feel 

 that, for the sake of any who may be disposed to follow in our 

 steps, I cannot do less than highly commend the house of our 

 cultivated hosts, Herr. and Fru Wattne, of Maarud, Saeterstoen, 

 per Christiania. He has a large farm, and the comfort and 

 attention we experienced at their hands were beyond anything I 

 can recall oh similar occasions elsewhere. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Larv^: op Pyg^era (Clostera) reclusa Eating Larvae of Dicranura 

 vinula. — I have been rearing a brood of some thirty-five larvsa of 

 C. reclusa, and when they were about half grown I put in with them 

 fourteen larva) of D. vinula freshly emerged from the ova. However, 

 after a day or two, observing that the numbers of the latter grew 

 " small by degrees and beautifully less," I kept them under close 

 supervision, with the result that I caught a fine reclusa " red-banded," 

 and thus accounted for the mysterious disappearance of the young 

 vinula ! Is it not rather unusual for this species to display such 

 voracity ? I can assign no reason whatever for their conduct, as 

 they were abundantly supplied with young poplar leaves kept always 

 fresh by having the stalks in water, and it therefore cannot have been 

 for want of food. I reared a large number of G. curtula last season ; 

 and, although they were kept together with some young vinula, they 

 showed no such cannibalistic propensities. — H. W. Shepheard- 

 Walwyn ; West Downs, Winchester. 



Butalis cicadella, Z., not in Lancashire. — In the ' Entomologist,' 

 xxvii. 246 (1894), the late Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson records the occurrence 

 of Butalis cicadella in Lancashire, stating that he took a very fine 

 example of it near Fleetwood on June 15th, 1894, and was able to 

 identify it by comparison with a specimen in his cabinet, which had 

 been captured at Southend by Mr. S. Stevens about forty years before. 

 When Mr. Hodgkinson's collection was on view at Stevens's rooms in 

 December last, I examined the series of B. cicadella, left exactly as he 

 had arranged it, and found that it consisted of three specimens. The 

 first, beneath which was Hodgkinson's MS. label — "Lane near Wyre, 

 June 15th, 1894" — was obviously the moth referred to in his published 

 note (loc. cit.), "Fleetwood" and "Wyre" being used synonymously; 

 but instead of being B. cicadella it was in reality a dark unicolorous 

 example of Bucculatrix mariUma, Stn., bearing not the faintest 

 resemblance to any Buta'.is! The second was a Butalis so hopelessly 

 rubbed and discoloured that certain recognition was impossible, though 

 it clearly never was cicadella ; while the third was the example of the 



