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above the average in size. At the beginning of this month the 
imagos began to appear, and still continue to do so. My object in 
writing this note is to ask this question: How is the time passed 
until the imago can again deposit its eggs on the under side of 
the leaf? The leaf must, I think, be mature before it is 
deposited, or so large a gall would surely distort it.—G. C. 
BiGNELL; Stonehouse, Plymouth, January 16, 1879. 
YorxsumreE Narvurauists’ Unton.—At a meeting of the 
Entomological section of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union held 
at Leeds on the llth January, it was decided to publish a list 
with localities of the Lepidoptera of the county of Yorkshire. 
Its compilation was placed in the hands of Mr. W. Prest, of York, 
and myself. May I ask, therefore, that every lepidopterist who 
has collected in any part of Yorkshire, however little, will kindly 
send to me list with localities (and in the case of rare or unusual 
species, with dates), of all the species noticed, with any notes that 
may be of use, as early as convenient. I need scarcely say that 
all such assistance shall be fully acknowledged.—Grorcre T. 
Porritt; Highroyd House, Huddersfield. 
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E. C. Buxton.—About fifteen years ago there lived at 
Daresbury Hall, near Warrington, Mr. HE. C. Buxton, a 
gentleman known to his friends as a genial companion, an 
ardent sportsman, and a keen lepidopterist. Although not his 
first collection of Lepidoptera (which was destroyed by fire at 
Walton-on-the-Naze), he then possessed one of the finest in 
England. Collecting assiduously himself, he also employed 
collectors to visit many distant parts of Britain in search of 
rarities. Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson says, “ How well I remember 
his visits to me, fully thirty years ago, when making his second 
collection ; and his telling me how pleased he was on finding a 
specimen of Pieris Daplidice at rest on a flower.” He was one of 
those indefatigable collectors and sportsmen who prided himself 
upon his great catches, whether of insects, salmon, or wildfowl. 
Eventually finding his British collection becoming as complete as 
he could well make it, he devoted himself to foreign travel, and the 
study of African butterflies and birds. With this object he went 
to Port Natal, where he collected large numbers of insects. 
