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of the pupa state. Eupithecia pumilata was flitting iVoin flower 

 to flower in numbers. We sought long and closely for Dasy- 

 campa ruhiginea, which had been taken in Ramnor the week pre- 

 viously by Mr. C. Gulliver, but we saw nothing of it. On 

 Monday our attention was given to E. irriguata, but without 

 success, a long and brilliant series of E. ahhreriata, however, to 

 some extent compensating for our labour in a high east wind. 

 On Tuesday the weather was so bitterly cold, with occasional 

 showers of sleet, that no collecting could be done, so we walked 

 over to Lymington, and went by boat to the Isle of Wight. 

 Wednesday being no warmer, we returned to London. In 

 addition to the species already named, we may mention having 

 taken or seen during our visit Boarmia crejmscularia (common), 

 Anticlea badiata and A. derivata (both in fine condition), Cidaria 

 miata, Xylocampa lithoriza, Xylina rhizolltha, Demas coryli, &c. 

 Small larvae of Cleora glahraria were not uncommon on 

 lichen-covered trees. Before concluding, I must refer to the 

 Rose and Crown Hotel, where we stayed at Brockenhurst ; every 

 attention is paid to the comfort of the visitor, the accommodation 

 being nearly equal to a West-end hotel, and the prices nearly as 

 satisfactory. — John T. Carrington ; Royal Aquarium, West- 

 minster, S.W., April 23, 1881. 



Vanessa Antiopa at Headley Lane. — While collecting in 

 Headley Lane, on April 17th, in company with Mr. Jobson, of 

 the Haggerston Entomological Society, I took a specimen of 

 Vanessa Antioj^a at rest on the trunk of a birch tree. It was 

 sitting full in the sunshine, and was in either a half torpid or 

 exhausted condition, for it allowed me to take it between my 

 fingers without any attempt at escape. It is a female, and, for a 

 hybernated specimen, in fair condition.— J. A. Cooper; 32, Bing- 

 field Street, Barnsbury, N., April 19, 1881. 



Vanessa Antiopa. — It will, perhaps, interest many of your 

 readers to know that, while trout fishing in a pool among the hills 

 in Brecknockshire, on Saturdaj', April 16th, I captured a speci- 

 men (no doubt a hybernated one) of the now rarel}' seen 

 Camberwell Beauty {Vanessa Antiopa).— C F. H. (25, Down 

 Street, Piccadilly, W.) ; in ' Field.' 



Vitality of Acherontia Atropos. — I have to record a most 

 extraordinary instance of vitality in the case of a fine Acherontia 

 Atropos, which I captured last autumn. Upon my first taking 



