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coryli, and a nice series of YjJsipetes ruherata, and many commoner 

 insscts. One D. coryli in two nights laid 207 eggs, and the fourth 

 night 40 more ; and was a good specimen even after having been 

 shut up in a pill-box so long. On the moors occurred Phycis 

 carbonariella, where the heath had been burnt in previous years, 

 and a few Chelonia plantaginis. When does this insect fly ? The 

 examples I took were started out of the heather. I have not 

 observed the time of its voluntary flight. It is said to fly in the 

 sunshine, so it certainly does ; but, according to my experience, 

 only under the gentle stimulus of the beating-stick and the 

 approach of danger. In boggy places on the moor among cotton- 

 grass I got some lovely specimens of Glyphipteryx Hmvorthella. 



Among butter-burr {Petasites vulgaris), in what is locally termed 

 a "water mead," I got Ephippipliora turhidana. The locality 

 where I took this insect is very aptly named as regards water, for 

 this was in plenty, though the mead was not quite so evident at 

 first, till I got well though the water ; then I got my meed in the 

 shape of a good bag of E. turhidana. I observed that this species 

 flies between 3 and 4 p.m., but only for a short time ; after that 

 they may be found sitting on the upper surface of the leaves, 

 singly and in pairs ; during the earlier part of the day it is 

 difiicult to get a specimen. Emmelesia albulata was abundant in 

 grass meadows ; and a few E. affinitata were met with in ditches 

 among ragged whin. Sugar did not allure anything good enough 

 to box, with the exception of a few dark forms of Xylophasia rurea 

 and one Dianthoecia cucubali. I have taken the last-named species 

 at sugar several seasons, but it is the only one of the genus 

 so captured by me. As it is my present intention to remain for 

 the whole coming season in North Devon, you will probably hear 

 further from me on my captures. 



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ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &o. 



Ornithoptera Brookeana, Wall. (Description of female). — 

 As I am not aware that this has yet been published, I give it 

 from a very fine example that has just been sent me, captured 

 in Perak, in the Malayan Peninsula : — Expanse (the wings being 

 horizontal and straight) exactly seven inches and a half; my 



