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T’. batis there may possibly be two generations of the insect in 
each year.—R. S8.] 
Srconp Broops.—With regard to Timandra amataria being 
at times double-brooded in the natural state (HKntom. 231) I 
have this season seen two instances of it. In Dorsetshire I 
noticed a fine specimen in the third week of August, and 
a somewhat worn one on September 6th. In one locality in 
this district we this season met with a second brood of Lycena 
minima (alsus). I noticed the first specimens on August 10th; 
the first brood had been numerous. In Dorsetshire, on the sea- 
coast, a few specimens of Lycena @gon were just emerging on 
August 17th; this also occurred about the same date last season 
in the same locality. Would not these specimens be a second 
brood? It would surely be late for one of a succession of 
broods. I have never visited the locality at the time this 
butterfly should be out according to our books. All the 
commoner species of the Lycenide have again been somewhat 
abundant in localities I have visited. L. icarus, however, has 
not been so excessively so as it was last season. Has Lycena 
arion ever been known to be double-brooded? Might this not 
be probable, from the general tendency there appears to be 
amongst the “blues” to be so? This species has become, in 
Gloucestershire, one of the rarest butterflies. From places 
where, twenty years ago, it managed to hold its own, it has now 
entirely disappeared. I am afraid this is not from natural causes 
only.—T. B. Jerrerys; Clevedon, September 17, 1886. 
ACHERONTIA ATROPOS IN SHETLAND.—During a visit to 
Lerwick this summer I was fortunate enough to secure three 
specimens of the above-named Sphinx; two were taken in a 
potato field near Lerwick, and the third at Stoney Hill. The 
various lists I have been able to consult make no mention of this 
species, nor indeed of any Sphinx, having been so far taken in 
the Shetlands. If this is correct, we have an important addition 
to the already very interesting fauna of the most northern portion 
of the British Isles—WiLLovgHpy GARDNER; c 18, Exchange 
Buildings, Liverpool, October 7, 1886. [The occurrence of 
A. atropos in the Shetlands was referred to, Entom. 147.—Ep.] 
ACHERONTIA ATROPOS IN IRELAND. — It may not be wholly 
uninteresting to record the appearance of A. «atropos in this 
