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value, though there was much dissimilarity in the ground colour 

 of the hind wings, the red in some cases being faint, with a 

 tendency to yellow, especially round the steel-blue spots. — 

 Joseph Anderson, jun. ; Chichester. 



Notes on the Season. — I cannot give any satisfactory 

 information as to the abundance of Lepidoptera this season, not 

 being able to go out collecting. In my garden I have seen a good 

 many Noctuse in the evening lately, Tryphcena pronuha being 

 particularly abundant. 1 hear from various correspondents that 

 common Noctuse are plentiful. The Tortrices that infest roses 

 are far too plentiful this season. — Frederick Bond ; Staines, 

 July 20, 1881. 



Collecting in the Hebrides. — My collector has so far found 

 this season most unsatisfactory in the Hebrides, chiefly owing to 

 the excessive rain, which has now lasted for many weeks and left 

 the bogs in a most uncomfortable state for work. His best 

 capture has been some exceedingly fine stone-coloured varieties 

 of Boarmia repandata : some of these are very light in colour and 

 beautiful in appearance. They differ in a very marked manner 

 from any other variety I have seen of this species. Interesting 

 forms of Cidaria russata have appeared, from which I have a 

 number of ova. It will be interesting to see if these types are 

 perpetuated when the insect passes through all its stages in our 

 very different and much dryer climate. Gamptogramma bilineata 

 is variable from the western isles ; dark forms predominating, some 

 being nearly black. Chortobius Davus is small, much smaller 

 than Rannoch specimens. Melanippe hastata is very rich in 

 colour, the dark markings being exceptionally black and showing 

 well in contrast with the pure white ground of the wings. — 

 E. G. Meek; 56, Brompton Road, S.W., July 22, 1881. 



EsHER Woods. — To those entomologists residing in London 

 who have but little time for pursuing the science, the opening up 

 of new localities in the neighbourhood of the metropolis is a great 

 desideratum. Claygate covers and the Esher pine-woods are 

 within an hour's walk from Surbiton Station, half an hour's run 

 from Waterloo ; yet they are not worked as they deserve to be. 

 On July 2nd I saw Argynnis Paphia out already, and A. Adippe 

 will probably soon follow. Sugaring the same evening, I took a 

 dozen oi Leucania turca, some Aplecta herbida, Aci'onycta ligustri, 



