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firmed, the observation will certainly possess all the importance 

 the author claims for it, and it is quite clear that the description 

 is sufficientl}^ well-founded to deserve the most thorough investi- 

 gation before it can be assumed that the author has been mistaken. 

 This being the case it is in every way advisable that the observation 

 should be rendered public, that the opportunity for confirmation 

 may be taken by the investigation of many species of larvae during 

 the coming season. — Edward B. Poulton.] 



LEPIDOPTERA OF SOUTH BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 

 By Rev. J. Seymour St. John. 



Whether this particular part of the county — on the borders 

 of Middlesex, Herts, and Oxfordshire — has ever been worked 

 entomologically, I know not. Mr. Stainton mentions Halton in 

 his books, which is a good sixteen miles north of my locality 

 (Chalfont St. Peter), as the crow flies. Being within reasonable 

 distance of London, twenty miles from the Marble Arch, and a 

 very likely -looking bit of country, — gravel and chalk soil, with 

 plenty of trees of all kinds, shrubs, undergrowth, common and 

 wood, in good profusion, — it may prove interesting to some 

 readers to know what I have done in the past season of 1886. 

 With not too much time on my hands for entomologising, and 

 the daytime being all occupied, I had to leave the Diurni to 

 themselves. Anyone who could give up his whole time could 

 record, I feel sure, a better bag than myself. 



I must content myself on this occasion to give simply the 

 actual captures of Macros each month which I made, stating the 

 number of each, except when I took only single specimens of a 

 species, in which case the name only is given without comment. 



May. — Caught: — Hepialus hectus (common), Hemerophila abruptaria, 

 Anticlea nigrofasciaria, Coremia unidentaria (4), C. ferrugata, Selenia 

 biluiiaria, Eupithecia vulgata (6), E. consiguata, Cidaria suflfumata, Ligdia 

 adustata, Rumia luteolata (2), Melanippe fluctuata (common), Asthena 

 candidata (common), Numeria pulveraria. At light : — Plusia gamma. 



June. — Caught: — lodis lactearia (6), Eupithecia rectaugulata (4), 

 Ligdia adustata (3), Asthena candidata (common), A. luteata, Bapta 

 temerata, Melanippe montanata (common), M. unangulata, Cabera 



ENTOM. — APRIL, 1887. N 



