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saw a. few very fine specimens near Wythop church and Buttermere. V. 

 cardui, saw a specimen at Braithwaite, and another in the Vale of New- 

 lands. Epinephele ianira ijanira), only saw one male. CcenonympJia pam- 

 philus and Polyommatus phlceas, both common. Lycana icarus [alexis], 

 caught six males, but did not see a single female, in a field off the Udale 

 road. Nisoniades tages, very common and in excellent condition near Isel, 

 and on the Udale and Aspatria roads. Spilosonta menthastri, one male 

 near Ouse Bridge, and a pair near Higham. The female, taken at Higham, 

 laid about a hundred ova, which I have fed on elder, as both dock and 

 nettle are difficult to get at Bolton. Hepialus hiimuli. saw one male. 

 Phalera bucephala, one specimen, at rest on a leaf, near Higham. Acro- 

 nycta leporina, one specimen at rest on a willow-trunk behind the Pheasant 

 Hotel. Xylophasia monoglypha (polyodon), made the acquaintance of one 

 in my bedroom. I was fortunate enough to see no more. Euplexia luci- 

 para, caught one in bedroom. Plusia pulchrina and P. gamma, one of either 

 kind. Euclidia glyphica, saw one or two on the Udale road, along with 

 selene, pamphilus, and tages. Rumia luteolata, very common after dusk 

 along the lane hedges. Boarmia repandata, one very dark specimen in 

 woods on Armathwaite estate, off the Udale road. Geometra vernaria, one 

 specimen at Higham. lodis lactearia, one specimen off Udale road. 

 Cabera pusaria and exanthemaria, both exceedingly plentiful. Abraxas 

 (Zerene) grossulariata, only saw one larva by the roadside near Cocker- 

 mouth. A. sylvata {ubnata), very common near the Wythop Estate 

 Woods ; took over sixty one afternoon, at rest on low plants. Lomasjnlis 

 margmata, common everywhere. Larentia viridaria [pectinitaria], took one 

 specimen resting on an ash-trunk by Wythop Estate Woods. Thera 

 juniperata, fairly common. Melanthia ocellata, Melanippe sociata, M. mon- 

 tanata, and Camptogramma bilineata were all common. Bupalus piniar'ia, 

 males common everywhere, but did not see any females. Eubolia plum- 

 baria [palumbaria], fairly common off the Udale road. Tanagra atrata 

 {chcBrophyUata), common in the same places as E. plumbaria. Botys urti- 

 calis, saw a left primary of this species on a nettle, Coleoptera. — 

 Cicindela campestris var. funebris, caught one specimen near Crummock 

 Water, where it seemed common. Melolontha vulgaris, common. Phyllo- 

 pertha horticola, very common on bracken near Buttermere, and in the Vale 

 of Newlands ; less so on Lattrigg. Corymbites csneus and cupreus, one 

 specimen of the former ; the latter was common on Lattrigg. Lampyris 

 noctiluca, four males flew in at the bedroom window about 11 p.m., evidently 

 attracted by the candle. Rhagiuni inquisitor and bi/asciatum, one specimen 

 of each ; the former on the boat-house, the latter flew out of some pine 

 woods. — Oscar Whittaker ; Morelands, Heaton, Bolton, Aug. 21st, I'JOO. 



Three Days' Collecting at Deal. — Three days is not a long time to 

 work up a strange locality, but having nothing else to do from July 31st to 

 August 3rd, I determined to run down to Deal, my principal object being 

 to try and obtain a series of Lithosia pygmaola and Liparis cJirysorrha:a, 

 the former of which I understood to be getting very scarce, and the latter 

 very common in this particular locality. I was also anxious to see the old 

 place again, as in my early school days I had spent three summer holidays 

 there, and had then collected butterflies in a more or less casual way ; in 

 1886, the last of these three years, capturing, and recording in this maga- 

 zine, Colias edusa, var. helice — this record, by the by, being my earliest 

 effort in print, being then only twelve years old. It is curious that this my 

 next visit should again be during a " Colias" year. 



