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considerably from the type of A. Paphia in its habits, being 

 decidedly more alert on the wing, flying higher, and more wary 

 than the typical females. All three of these butterflies appeared 

 to sufl"er from the attacks of dragonflies, which took a savage 

 delight in snapping pieces out of the wings of ^. Paj)hia especially. 

 The fiery colouring of the latter irritated them, I presume, and 

 roused their pugnacious tendencies. A few days later Satyrus 

 HyperantJms abounded, and Gonepteryx rhamni almost rivalled 

 L. Sibylla in numbers by the middle of the month. On the 29th 

 I saiu about a dozen Apatura Iris flying round high oaks and 

 Scotch firs, but sticks, stones, and clods of earth availed not at all 

 to bring their imperial majesties within reach of the long net I 

 had provided for them. I believe a few specimens were taken at 

 old sugar, but, as far as I know, very few on the wing. In all, I 

 sighted twenty-four species of Diurni during my stay; not a bad 

 percentage in a month, considering our limited British list. 



Boarmia rohoraria emerged rather early this year, and my 

 specimens are consequently not in first-rate order. B. repandata 

 var. conversaria proved scarce, and Acidalia inornata only put in 

 an appearance at sugar, and then very sparingly; A. immutata no 

 better; and although I devoted several mornings to "Bank" and 

 " Denny," and worked hard for Cleora glahraria, I could not make 

 up a half dozen, and was obliged to console myself with a few 

 C. lichenaria and an unlimited supply of Liparis monacha off oak 

 and beech ; of these I took some handsome dark-banded forms. 



This Geometer working was somewhat disappointing, Ennomos 

 angularia (normal types), E. erosaria, Macaria liturata, Fidonia 

 piniaria and Melanthia albicillata being the onl}^ other species 

 worthy of note. The "footmen" I found represented by Lithosia 

 quadi'a, L. helveola, and L. complanida. The first species was very 

 abundant; I picked out more than a hundred pupse of it from the 

 crevices of oak trunks, — from which 1 have reared as many 

 ichneumons as moths, — and afterwards the perfect insect came 

 freely to sugar, as did Nola strigula, of which I also secured a good 

 number at rest in the daytime. One exi^edition after Zygcena 

 meliloti sufficed to procure me a nice series, and I was loth to take 

 more, as the species is very hard worked, and I fear in danger of 

 extermination. 



I sugared persistently in Hollands Wood and New Park, and 

 was rewarded by three Triphcena suhsequa, Leucania turca ad. lib., 



