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given up all active collecting, but every season I have made a few 
visits to Arion’s haunts on the Cotswold Hills; and I have taken 
it more or less sparingly every year. The dates of first capture 
I have recorded are as follows :—June 17th, 1866; June 20th, 1867; 
had probably been out some days in these two years: June dth, 
1868; June 13th, 1869; 1870, exact date not kept, but it was 
early—about the 10th. This was the best year for Lycenide I 
remember. One fine evening I found five L. Arion at rest within 
a few inches of each other, and close by were six L. Agestis 
asleep on one stalk of grass. Five of these I boxed straight off 
into one pill-box. Since 1870 I have kept no regular account of 
dates, but have found that the 10th to 20th June should be con- 
sidered as the date due for Arion. I have never taken any in 
July, except old worn specimens. In 1867 and 1868 they have 
been rather later. This season I have made periodical visits to 
the ground since June 18th, but the first specimen seen was July 
Sth. Then came more bad weather, and it was a week before 
another was seen. ‘This species has continued emerging and in 
fair condition to the very end of July, but has been unusually 
scarce. This makes L. Arion, which I have always considered a 
very regular species in its appearance, to be four to five weeks later 
than in average seasons.—H. W. Marspen; Regent Street, 
Gloucester, August 11, 1879. 
CaLiuimorPHA Hrra.—It may possibly be of some interest to 
readers of the ‘Entomologist’ to know that I captured C. Hera 
the year before last at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight. It was a 
moderately good specimen.—H. Rownianp-Brown; West Walton 
Rectory, Wisbeach, August 10. 
PLUSIA ORICHALCEA.—I was at Wotton-under-Kdge three days 
last week, and favoured with tolerably fine weather. I strolled 
about the old haunts to try and pick up some insects. On the 
hills the little Lycena Alsus was fairly plentiful, but in so worn a 
condition that I left them alone; other blues scarce. Arge 
Galathea in great abundance, as also the Common Ringlet (Satyrus 
Hyperanthus). In the woods little was astir in the daytime but a 
few Minoa euphorbiata in the thicker portions, and in the cleared 
portions Chelonia plantaginis rose up every now and then as I 
went along; and, in following up one of these, what should I see 
sitting on a plant of Mercurialis in front of me but Plusia 
