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every few yards, opening and closing its wings with as much 
enjoyment as if it had been at rest on some expanded flower. 
Like its relatives, Vanessa urtice and V. cardui, it is very fond of 
resting in the middle of roads, or on bare and barren patches of 
land, or on rubbish heaps, and bare stones along the roadsides. 
It is also very fond of flying along the sides of stinking ditches 
and brooks; and in these parts this is a sure locality, if nettles 
grow there, to find, at the right season, the larvee. Now in this 
Black Country of ours I have seen JV. urtice, V. cardui, and 
V. atalanta flying and disporting themselves among the old 
cinder mounds, which are so numerous, where scarcely a vestige 
of herbage or a flower is to be found. They may be seen frequently 
resting on the bare stones that lie scattered around, and where 
there is no attraction that one could perceive, the place being so 
barren as to make one wonder why butterflies should be found there 
at all.—T. Hun; 15, Russell Street, Willenhall, March 6, 1886. 
Ca@iNONYMPHA TYPHON IN NortH WatEs.—Does Cano- 
nympha typhon (davus) occur in North Wales? In Morris’s 
‘ Butterflies’ a locality is given between Bala and Festiniog. I 
was in that neighbourhood upon several occasions at the end 
of last June, but failed to find typhon. ‘The place is, however, 
so precisely similar to those where I have taken this butterfly 
freely in Scotland that I think it must occur. Perhaps some of 
your readers will be able to confirm Morris’s locality. Welsh 
specimens of this insect would, I imagine, be the variety rothliebi. 
—W. J. Kerr; Tan-y-Bwlch, North Wales, April 5, 1886. 
Dininutive Diurnt.—Referring to the small Lycena icarus 
(Entom. 63), I have a specimen of Z. corydon, male, which only 
measures an inch, and one L. minima (alsus) of 83 lines.— Dover 
EpcGeuu; Firle, Lewes, March 1, 1886. 
Larva oF CHaROCAMPA CELERIO IN SussExX.—The larva of 
Cherocampa celerio has occurred in this neighbourhood. It 
puzzled me until I obtained Westwood and Humphrey’s admirable 
book, when I at once recognised it. In size it equalled a full-fed 
Sphinx ligustri, and the cat-like appearance of the head when at 
rest was very formidable. It ate small willow-herb, fuchsia, and 
white bedstraw. I obtained it on the 23rd September, 1885; it 
spun up on 4th October, but did not moult until 4th November. 
I regret to say that from, I fear, the closeness of the atmosphere, 
in the place where they were confined, both it and eight larvee of 
