NOTES, CAPTURES, E'C. 16: 
“T have both Hiibner (Zeller’s copy) and Herrich-Schiffer. 
After careful study of the figures, I have come to a decision very 
different from Mr. Tutt. According to Staudinger, Hiibner 
figures ‘contaminellus’ three times :—fig. 59, as contaminella ; 
fig. 364, as wmmustella ; and fig. 442, as inquinatella. Now fig. 59 
is a very good one of Mr. Tutt’s species, male. Fig. 364, Zeller 
considers to be angulatella, Dup., = our geniculeus ; to my eyes 
it looks like a var. hortuellus ; I think we may dismiss the fig. 
from consideration. Fig. 442 is a very good one of the pale form 
of our Sussex contaminellus, female; but it cannot retain the 
name of inquinatella, as the species, so called, was earlier named 
thus by Schiffermiiller, and figured (54) under that name by 
Hiibner himself; Herrich-Schiiffer’s figures, 88 and 89, are 
our Sussex species, male and female. It results that Mr. Tutt’s 
species retains the name of contaminellus, Hiib.; imquinatellus, 
Schiff., keeps its name; and Sussex (and Preston) contaminellus, 
Hiib., fig. 442, H.-S., 88 and 89, male and female, wants a name.” 
The above extract so fully confirms my short paper last month, 
that I believe it effectually decides the question—W. H. 
TuGweELL; 6, Lewisham Road, Greenwich. 
EASTER-WEEK IN THE New Forest.—Having for many years 
visited the New Forest later in the season, I was desirous of 
spending, this year, a week at Brockenhurst in the spring. On 
my arrival, April 24th, the weather was lovely; Gonopteryx 
rhamni, Vanessa polychloros, and V.io0 were to be seen frequently. 
In the Queen’s Bower, on April 26th, I saw Lycena argiolus in 
large numbers round the hollies and oaks; but as the former are 
very high there, it was difficult to obtain them, and I had to watch 
my opportunity when they flew from tree to tree, generally within 
reach. Only on one occasion, at Netley Abbey, on the ivy, in 
August, 1880, have I seen ZL. argiolus so plentiful. In the 
evening I repaired to the sloe bushes, near Brockenhurst Bridge, 
where I took a few Aleucis pictaria, which were just emerging; a 
series of Hupithecia pumilata, Ligdia adustata, Anticlea badiata, 
and A. nigrofasciaria (derivata) ; also some fine Selenia wlunaria. 
Of Noctue only Teniocampa gothica and Pachnobia rubricosa. 
Micros, Depressaria yeatesiella, D. ciliella, and Sarothripus 
undulanus (revayana) ; but that was my only chance, for in the 
night we had a terrific storm, and the next day my hunting- 
ground was transformed into a lake; it likewise turned very cold, 
