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ones. The caterj^illars of llie peacock butterfly are remark- 

 ably abundant this year; hundreds of them may be seen 

 together. I have obtained a specimen of S. ocellatus this 

 season, being my first specimen in this locality. — Stephen 

 Clog;] ; Looe, July 2, 1809. 



Calias Edusa near IVingham, Kent. — Driving with an 

 entomological friend near here to-day, we saw a good speci- 

 men of this butterfly on the wing over a clover-field. — 

 William Thomson ; Adelaide Road, Penge, June 25, 1869. 



Lyccena Arion, Sfc., in Devon : Melitiea Cin.via in Dor- 

 set, bfc. — When I last had the pleasure of seeing you, T think 

 you told me that you were not aware that the Bold Head, on 

 the coast of Devon, was a locality for the large blue butterfly 

 (Lycaena Arion). Two years since, when with some friends, 

 we caught several dozen of that species, and about a fort- 

 night since many were again taken in that locality by friends 

 of mine. When at Lyme Regis, in Dorset, and adjoining 

 the coast of Devon, T saw several collections of Lepidoptera 

 in which were specimens of Melitaea Cinxia, said to have 

 been taken in the neighbourhood. Now, as that seems to be 

 a locality not mentioned in entomological works for that 

 insect, I will, if you wish, get further information concerning 

 it. The chalk-hill blue, Corydon, is also taken at Lyme, and 

 I should say also on the coast of Devon, which is close 

 adjoining. At Ivybridge, near Plymouth, I took V. Poly- 

 chloros at the end of June last, — a species very uncommon 

 in Devon. The marbled white I have found along the coast 

 from Lyme, in Dorset, to Sidmouth on the coast of Devon. 

 I need scarcely say that I shall be most happy to give you 

 any information concerning the butterflies of Devon that lies 

 in my power. Thecla Betulae is rather rare in this neigh- 

 bourhood, but I have beaten many larvae from the sloe- 

 bushes near Plymouth. The variety Bryonia^ of P. Napi was 

 taken by a friend of mine near Plymouth some years since. 

 — J. Gatcomhe ; 8, Lower Diirnford Street, Plymouth, De- 

 von, July 14, 1869. 



Egyi ofPolyommatus Arion. — One of the many " problems" 

 which Mr. Stainton was formerly in the habit of pressing 

 npon us seems likely to meet with a solution shortly, namely, 

 the life-history of our largest blue, P. Arion. The old locality 

 for this rare species was Barnwell Wold, Northamptonshire ; 



