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concerned (Kntom. 29). I can answer for its occurrence in 
three distinct localities, two in the immediate neighbourhood 
of Burton-on-Trent, and one farther off, but still in this county 
of Stafford. It occurs among hollies at the edge of Mace 
Woods, near Whitmore Station, between Stafford and Crewe, 
where the Rey. T. W. Daltry has repeatedly taken it. And in 
our own local list, published in last year’s ‘ Entomologist’ 
(Entom. xvili. 180), it is recorded as ‘‘ scarce round Repton 
(W. G.), abundant in Needwood Forest.” I have myself taken it 
in plenty, in a wood called * Parson’s Brake,” about seven miles 
from Burton, during May, and have noticed that it frequently 
settles on the blossoms of the wild hyacinth, when, of course, it 
is easily taken. I can corroborate Mr. Bath’s statement as to 
the great majority of the specimens taken being males, though 
my experience hardly bears out his as to the time that elapses 
between the appearance of the two sexes. There is not much 
ivy in the neighbourhood, but I can say nothing as to the 
occurrence of a second brood of the butterfly, having never 
visited the locality at that time of the year. But I have not 
much fear of Needwood Forest being further ‘‘cut up and 
intersected,’ unless indeed our legislators should succeed in 
making it “a misdemeanour” to hold more than 100 acres 
of land uncultivated, in which event English entomology would 
soon become a thing of the past. My own impression is that L. 
argiolus may be looked for with success in woods throughout the 
Midlands, wherever the hollies are permitted to attain their full 
growth ; and this I know to be the case, not in one wood only, 
but in several, throughout the district known as Needwood 
Forest. I hope, however, that during the coming season the 
members of our ‘“ Entomological Section” may be able to 
furnish you with fuller particulars. — Cuas. F. THoRNEWILL ; 
The Soho, Burton-on-Trent, February 2, 1886. 
REMARKABLY SMALL LycmNa IcARuUs.—I caught a remarkably 
small male specimen of Lycena icarus (alexis) on Keston 
Common on the afternoon of August 29th, 1885. The exact 
expanse of the anterior wings is eight-tenths of an inch; as 
compared with a normal size of one and a quarter inch for 
this species. It is smaller than any Lycena minima (alsus) 
which I possess—Ernest E. Joy; 15, Brownswood Park, N. 
February 15, 1886. 
