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to have shared its fate. Vanessa io seems also to have gone, and 

 many other species I could name. The same remarks will also 

 apply to some of our Coleoptera. I have not seen Cetonia aurata 

 or Melolontha vulgaris for years, and I need hardly say how 

 common they used to he ; and where I have now lived for the 

 past eight years I have never even seen a specimen of the 

 common Carabus violaceiis, which I used years ago to so often 

 find smashed on the pavements in the mornings, having fallen a 

 victim to some nocturnal " heetle-crusher." It would, I think, 

 be very interesting to our younger entomologists if some of our 

 veterans would from time to time give some account of the 

 localities round London and what they used to produce. In 

 conclusion, I may add that I think our greatest enemy is 

 undoubtedly " sootilisation " ; and as this extends in conjunction 

 with building operations, &c., we shall have to go further afield to 

 obtain the species which a few years ago a short walk in the 

 country would have enabled us to collect. — C. J. Biggs ; 3, Stanley 

 Terrace, West Ham Park, London, E. 



London Lepidoptera. — Dr. Eendall's notes, in the last 

 number of the 'Entomologist' (Entom. 198), have much 

 interested me, as I have been in the habit of recording the 

 species of Lepidoptera found in London for some years past. 

 To the list given by him I am enabled to add a few. In 1869 I 

 observed the common blue (Lyccsna icarus) in several of the 

 London squares, but have never seen it in the metropolis since. 

 In 1879 or 1880, Zeuzera pyrina was extremely common in the 

 squares ; I had more than a dozen brought me found on tree 

 trunks in Euston Square alone. When living at John Street, 

 Bedford How, a specimen of Notodonta ziczac once flew in through 

 the open window attracted by the gaslight. The moth was a 

 female, and commenced laying eggs soon after being captured, a 

 good series having been bred from these the following year. To 

 the list of Noctuse may be added Hadena trij'olii and Caradrina 

 quadr {punctata. I have seen also Ampliipyra pyramidea, A.trago- 

 pogonis, and Mania rnaura taken at sugar at Highbur3\ Amongst 

 Geometrae I have occasionally seen Crocallis elinguaria in the 

 parks. Of the Pyralidse the most interesting capture is a speci- 

 men of Spilodes sticticaUs, which was taken in Gray's Inn Gardens 

 in 1880. Amongst the Tineinse, Hyponomeuta padellus seems to 

 be very common in London this year ; and Chrysoclysta Unneella 



