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find some of them distinctly marked on the upper side.— 
Alfred E.. Hudd; Stapleton Lodge, Stapleton Road, Bristol, 
December 14, 1870. 
Melanthia Rubiginata var. Plumbata, de.—This species is 
very common, as I have caught three dark, two black, and 
one not quite black; I could have canght hundreds of the 
true one as they were so plentiful. I have only met with 
them in one place about here. 1 have also got a brownish 
yellow specimen of the large Emerald (G. Papilionaria) this 
year, on the 4th of July, hanging on the bough of a tree, at 
evening. A brother cutomologist, at Bolton, told Mr. King, 
of London, and he said it was done with poisoning it; but I 
had no poison with me then, but had pinched it under the wings. 
It is not a faded specimen, as it looked quite fresh, and the 
antenne and legs are the same colour. Last year I caught 
two of the Comma butterfly on the valerian and peaches. 
T have taken Agrotis saucia on ivy bloom, and A. suffusa 
this antumn.—W. R. Kefford ; Lathom Gardens, Ormskirk, 
Lancashire, December, 1870. 
Phibalapteryx conjunctaria, §c.,near Newcastle.—The best 
of my captures during the past season was one specimen of 
Phibalapteryx conjunctaria (Polygrammata of ‘ British Moths,’ 
175, and ‘ Doubleday’s List.’): I took the insect at Newbeg- 
ben-by-the-Sea, during the last week of July, flying at dusk, 
near some swampy ground on the moor. In your ‘ British 
Moths’ you name March and September to be the times of its 
appearance ; probably it is only single-brooded in this part of 
the country. I saw, but did not capture, D. Galii flying on 
the 15th of July, much earlier than it has made its appearance 
in the south this year. Two members of our Club found , 
larve on the coast, which are now in pupe. About a dozen 
N. Elymi were taken in July on the coast, near South 
Shields, by Mr. Eales of that town. I have noticed the 
occurrence of a second brood of V. Urtice this year: I 
found the small larve during the last week in May, and 
again, on the same bed of nettles, on the 9th of August, 
nearly full fed; the butterflies were on the wing late in Sep- 
tember. The Naturalist’s Field Club, of this town, had a 
day at Castle Eden Dene in the beginning of June: I only 
succeeded in capturing one A. Blomeraria. I was afterwards 
told we were a fortnight too early for it. Two or three 
