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was, without comparison, the worst locality I ever was in for 

 Lepidoptera. During my stay of nearly eleven years, I never 

 met with a single Fritillary there till last year, when, to my 

 unbounded astonishment, I saw an Argynnis Pa])hia! I was 

 so paralyzed at the sight that I stood helplessly looking at 

 it till it calmly disappeared. Now, what brought it there in 

 '68.? Of course it may have flown from some distance, but 

 surely, in such a season, so common a butterfly, if it ap- 

 peared at all, should have appeared in some numbers. This 

 was the case with Cardui, an equally rare visitant. I might 

 mulliply examples, but these are sufficient, for the present at 

 least. The more I reflect upon the occasional appearance of 

 rare insects in certain seasons, or upon the solitary or nearly 

 solitary appearance of common species in a locality which 

 has been fairly worked for ten years, the more am I at a loss 

 to account for these phenomena. That an insect like Tre- 

 pida, which almost always appears in the spring following 

 the autumnal pupa stage, should, as in this case, not emerge 

 till the fourlli spring, may give us some clew. But wliy it 

 should thus remain is, and I fear ever will be, a mystery. — 

 {Rev.) J. Greene ; 57, Upper Leeson Street, Dublin. 



Acronycta Alni at Gravesend. — I was much gratified, on 

 the 1st instant, by having a very beautiful and perfect male 

 Acronycta Alni emerge from amongst my pupae. I did not 

 find it in the lai'va stale, and must therefore have dug the 

 pupa. I only dug, last autumn, in Cobham Park and just 

 round my own residence : it must have come therefore from 

 one of these two localities. — (Rev.) P. H. Jennings; Long- 

 field Rectory, Gravesend, April 13, 1869. 



CirrJiwdia xerampelina in Ireland. — In your 'British 

 Moths' you express an opinion that this species is not Irish : 

 it will therefore be interesting to state that the Rev. H. H. 

 Crewe has this year taken a specimen in the North of Ire- 

 land. — Edwin Birckall. 



Euperia fulvago in Sherivood Forest. — In your ' British 

 Molhs' you omit this great locality for Fulvago. I have 

 taken it by scores at sugar.' — Id. 



Crambus ocellea in Cheshire. — Two more specimens of 

 this species were taken by one of our working collectors 

 during February last, on the Cheshire coast. I have seen 

 one of them, and hope to see the other this week, as it has 



