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only took one, on horse-flesh hung up for the purpose, and 

 missed one on a jay gibbeted by a gamekeeper in terrorem. 

 I was just too late for Paniscus, which is taken there. In 

 the collection of a friend I saw a fine specimen of Nonagria 

 Hellmanni, taken somewhere in Lord Northampton's park, 

 in which there are mau}^ pools. The length of net for Iris 

 given in your ' British Butterflies' would have been quite 

 useless at Castle Ashby : fifty or sixty feet would scarcely 

 have reached them ; and how is such a net to be wielded ? 

 I rigged a small bag-net on the top of a stiflish fishing-rod, 

 but owing to the "play" of the top I could not succeed even 

 in bagging Thecla Quercus, the satellite of Iris, which I was 

 fain to practise upon in default of reaching the imperial 

 purple. — E. Horton ; Powick, near Worcester, August 3. 



188. Chcerocampa Celerio at H udder sjield. — Wliile spend- 

 ing a week in the North of Wales, at the end of last month 

 (July), a specimen of Chcerocampa Celerio flew into a cot- 

 tage on the Isle of Anglesea, near the Menai Suspension 

 Bridge, and was captured by one of the inmates, who kindly 

 gave it to me. — G. T. Porritt ; 8, Clare Hill, Hudder sjield, 

 August 3, 1865. 



189. Eggs of Vanessa Urticce. — I this morning sent you, 

 in a lucifer-box, the eggs of Vanessa Urticae. The eggs are 

 so much the colour of the nettle on which they are laid that 

 it is possible you may have trouble in finding them, but they 

 are altogether like a bunch of grapes or a handful of goose- 

 berries. For forty years or more I have been trying to wit- 

 ness the operation of this butterfly laying its eggs, and only 

 succeeded this morning : the eggs, I suspect, are all de- 

 posited together, and have a singular appearance. I have 

 watched Polychloros and Cardui laying their eggs, the one 

 on the elm, the other on the cotton-thistle, and Atalanta on 

 the nettle : these lay a single egg in a place. — A. Maclean ; 

 Linden Road, Colchester, June 29, 1865. 



190. Temporary Disappearance of Vanessa XJrticcs. — If I 

 might offer a remark upon this circumstance (Eutom. 251), I 

 would respectfully suggest to Mr. Doubleday that it is pro- 

 bable the butterflies which were so abundant the third week 

 in June were in great part individuals that had hybernated. 

 They are sometimes out in good numbers till the new brood 

 appears. 1 have no record, in the districts 1 am acquainted 



