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always marked with a row of eyes beyond the middle, but this 
varies very much in distinctness. Sometimes, as in H. Pomona, 
there is a long black eye with two bluish white pupils near the 
tip, and a smaller one with one pupil near the anal angle; in 
E. Caresa the eyes are represented merely by inconspicuous pale 
spots; and in H. Margarita, nothing is visible on the mottled 
brown surface but two or three white pupils. In some species, 
as in H. Maia, the pupils of the eyes are green. Still the eyes 
are always more or less visible, in spite of their variability, and 
the genus is easy to recognise. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 
Lycmna Bastica IN THE IsLE oF WieutT.—I have a specimen 
of this butterfly which was taken either by my brother or myself 
near to Freshwater, on the 23rd August, 1878. We were in want 
of ‘‘ Blues,’ and netted every one we saw. The specimen is a 
male, but is in bad preservation, owing partly to our not knowing 
its rarity.k—C. D. Snett; 56, Jeffrey's Road, Clapham, 8.W., 
February 10, 1879. 
[ Mr. Snell has very kindly allowed me to inspect the specimen 
of Lycena Betica above adverted to, and has also written me a 
letter giving a more explicit account of its capture. The insect 
is common in South-eastern and South-central Europe, and in 
favourable seasons it is found moderately common on the 
northern coast of France and in the Channel Islands. Three 
specimens have been taken in Belgium, one at Louvain, one at 
Visé, and one at Namur. ‘Two specimens only have hitherto 
been recorded as having been captured in England. The larva 
feeds in the pods of Colutea arborescens, the common pea, and 
and other Leguminose: my acquaintance with the species in 
a state of nature is sight. I took the insect on the right bank of 
the Rhine, close to the bridge at Coblenz; it was there in the 
month of August flying over a piece of waste ground sparsely 
clothed with vegetation consisting principally of Ononis arvensis, 
in the turgid legume of which plant I have no doubt the larvee 
had fed. I am inclined to think that the species may in some 
sunny spots in our southern counties be a permanent resident ; 
it should be sought for on banks with a slope to the south, where 
any species of the genus Ononis grows in profusion; it might 
