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show at the segmental divisions in most examples ; head pale 

 brown, with darker mandibles, and a conspicuous streak of dark 

 sienna-brown on the upper part of the inner side of each lobe, 

 and a sirailarl}' coloured spot on the outer edge of each lobe ; two 

 fine dark smoky lines, enclosing between them an indistinct pale 

 line, form the dorsal stripe ; subdorsal lines greyish yellow, 

 bordered above with a series of longitudinal dull black streaks 

 and below with a series of large marks of a similar colour, these 

 lower marks, however, being very indistinct on the frontal 

 segments ; there is only a faint indication of a very fine pale line 

 along the spiracles ; spiracles intensely black ; ventral surface, 

 legs and prolegs uniformly of a dingy greyish tint, and the skin 

 so translucent that the working of the muscles of the whole 

 surface can be distinctly seen through it. Feeds on grass, and 

 when full fed forms below the surface, amongst the roots of the 

 grass, a tolerably compact cocoon of silk and earth. The pupa is 

 about half an inch long, and rather dumpy in appearance, being 

 broad across the thorax, but the abdominal divisions much 

 narrower, and tapering sharply off to the anal point ; neither the 

 head-, leg-, nor wing-cases are at all prominent, the whole 

 surface being rather evenly and bluntly rounded ; it is polished, 

 and almost uniformly of a bright brown colour, the colour indeed 

 being exactly that of the familiar pupa of Mamestra brassicce. 

 Two beautiful imagos, male and female, emerged on September 

 2Gth. — Geo. T. Porritt ; Highroyd House, Huddersfield, 

 May 8, 1881. 



LvCiENA Agestis IN DERBYSHIRE. — During the last week of 

 May, 1880, I took large numbers of Lyccena Agestis at Dovedale, 

 four miles from here. They w^ere confined to a very limited 

 locality about six yards square, on the marshy side of a hill, 

 fluttering among the rank grass with Lyccsna Alexis and 

 Chortohius Pamjjhilus. I never remember seeing them in an}^ 

 other locality near here. — T. H. Hall ; Ashbourne, Derbyshire. 



Lyc.ena Argiolus. — I caught a female Lyccena Argiolus in my 

 garden here on Easter Sunday afternoon, April 17th. This seems 

 rather early, especially having regard to the long-continued easterly 

 winds which have prevailed. Newman, in his ' British Butterflies,' 

 only mentions one capture so early as April 9th, the usual time 

 being May, and later. — Horace Frere ; Queen's Road, Kingston- 

 on-Thames, April 20, 1881. 



