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and veiy soon dislodged our second specimen of C. hera, which 

 was a female in fair condition. A gentleman from London, staying 

 at Dawlisb, has succeeded in taking two others, one being a 

 variety'. Lyccena icarus was in extraordinary abundance ; and 

 Epinephele tWionus was equally common. Colias edusa was seen 

 or taken on most days ; and Thecla quercus was in plenty 

 in a forest on Holden Hill, where we took about four dozen 

 in less than an hour. On the cliffs at Dawlisb we succeeded in 

 taking two dozen each of Acidalia marginepunctata { promutata) ; 

 I counted five within the space of a foot sitting with their 

 wings extended on the red sandstone. Of Noctua3 there was a 

 general scarcity, but few of the common species being met with ; 

 and sugaring proved quite a failure. — W. Brooks ; The Lodge, 

 The Oaks, Lower Norwood, S.E., September 13, 1885. 



Deiopeia pulchella in Hampshire. — On October 6th, 1876, 

 my pupils and I were fortunate enough to take two fine specimens 

 of D. pulchella on the moorland between Bournemouth and 

 Christchurch, now known as Southborn-on-Sea ; and on the same 

 date, in the same locality, there is a record of the capture of five 

 specimens by the Rev. E. Brackenbury, of this town (Bourne- 

 mouth), and his pupils (Entom. ix. 258). Since that time I have 

 been in the habit of visiting the locality annually two or three 

 times with the hope of finding more of this rarity, but each time 

 failed to turn the sj)ecies up again. The operations of the " hrick 

 and mortar " speculation in this neighbourhood have been so 

 extensive and continuous of late years that my hopes (at one time 

 well grounded) of the permanent establishment of D. j^ulcJiella in 

 the locality were with each succeeding year becoming fainter and 

 fainter. I have, however, a strange fascination for the spot where 

 a rarity has once been captured, and, led by this, I again visited 

 the old ground on October 7th and spent a couple of hours, with 

 my usual success, nil. When about to return home, however, my 

 little dog dashed past me in pursuit of a rabbit, and, rushing in 

 among some ferns, started a pale-looking insect, which I instantly 

 netted, and found to be D. pulchella. While engaged in bottling 

 my prize some children came up, and to satisfy their cui'iosity I 

 showed them my capture, when one of them said, " Harry has a 

 butterfly like that"; and sure enough, to my surprise, in an old 

 mustard-tin the little fellow actually had a living specimen of D. 

 pulchella, with sundry still more lively grasshoppers, &c., all boxed 



