38 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
emerged from the pupe in my breeding-cages during the spring, 
including Drepana lacertinaria, Numeria pulveraria, Zonosoma 
pendularia, and Anarta myrtilli. A couple of excursions during 
the warm weather at the commencement of June, in company 
with my friend Mr. W. D. Lindley, from Oxford, to Dychwood 
Forest and Streatley, resulted in the capture of Thecla rubi, 
Nemeobius lucina, Lycena astrarche (agestis), Melitea aurinia 
(artemis), Strenia clathrata, Euclidia mi and E. glyphica, and 
several others. Melitea aurinia, so far from inhabiting a damp 
spot, occurred on the summit of the Streatley Downs. In this 
neighbourhood several insects, which usually appear in plenty, 
were very seldom to be seen, notably Lymenitis sibylla, Argynnis 
paphia and A. adippe. The reason occasionally alleged to 
explain the disappearance of insects, based on the numbers 
of entomologists who catch all they find, cannot apply here, for 
insect collectors are very few. As if to compensate for the 
scarcity of these insects Lodis lactearia and Cabera pusaria were 
perfect plagues in all the woods in which I collected. At 
Sandown, Isle of Wight, it gave me great pleasure to renew my 
acquaintance with the capricious Colias edusa ; it occurred in some 
plenty, but within a very limited range, in a clover field beyond 
Red Cliff Fort, and I was somewhat disappointed in my careful 
search for Lycena bellargus (adonis), which was only with great 
difficulty discovered amongst the swarms of Lycena corydon and 
L. icarus on the chalk. Although last year I met with some 
success amongst the moths at Sandown, this year my captures 
were all more or less common insects: Lithosia lurideola 
(complanula), Aspilates citraria, Hubolia bipunctata, Acidala 
dimidiata (scutulata), Gnophos obscurata, Xylophasia lthoxylea, 
Leucania pallens, Miana furuncula, and many others. With so 
many records of Sphinx convolvuli from all parts of the country, 
I should indeed be disappointed if I had not succeeded in 
obtaining an example. ‘The only one that came to me was found 
by my sister here at Millbrook, on a window. A larva of 
Acherontia atropos was also given me. —H. EK. U. Butt; 
January 4, 1886. 
MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA NEAR WESTON-SUPER-MARE.—The past 
season has certainly been a better one for many insects than we 
have had for some years, at any rate in this neighbourhood. 
Entomologists, especially if they have any idea of visiting this 
