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perfumed which may have been part of the attraction. On this 
thistle was a mass, as close as they could pack themselves, of 
P. cardui, P. gamma, and several other Noctusze and Crambites 
whose names I cannot be certain of. I saw only one Vanessa poly- 
chloros and a suspicious-looking dark butterfly very ike V. Antiopa; 
however, I cannot say for certain, for I took no entomological 
apparatus with me.—H. Ramsay Cox; Thornleigh, Forest Hill, 
S.H., August 20, 1879. 
BoLETOBIA FULIGINARIA IN THAMES STREET, LoNDoN.—I have 
the pleasure to inform you that one of our men has just brought 
to me a specimen of Boletobia fuliginaria which he had taken on 
our wharf. It is a female, but unfortunately, in getting it into a 
box, he did a little damage to the right upper wing; in other 
respects it is perfect in condition. This is the second specimen 
that has been taken on the same premises, for, in the same place, 
my friend Mr. Mallett took a male about twenty years ago.— 
J. R. Wetiman ; 14, Portland Place North, Clapham Road. 
EUPITHECIA EXPALLIDATA.—LHupithecia expallidata has been 
unusually abundant here this season. On Thursday last, twelve 
were boxed in about half an hour, just before dark. The males 
were worn, but most of the females were in good condition.— 
[Rev.] O. P. Campripce; Bloxworth Rectory, August 18th, 1879. 
SPILODES PALEALIS AT Box Hizz.—Whilst collecting at the 
above locality on August 10th, I had the pleasure of taking three 
fine S. palealis. Iwas also fortunate in breeding the yellow form 
of Zygena filipendule from pupe collected on the Hill.—A. W. 
Priest; 16a, Merton Road, Stanford Road, Kensington, August 
18, 1879. 
ScoPARIA BASISTRIGALIS, ETC., NEAR Doncaster.— Whilst 
collecting with Mr. Wm. Prest, of York, in Edlington Wood, near 
Doncaster, on Bank Holiday, August 4th, we came on a colony 
of Scoparia basistrigalis. It occurred in great abundance in an 
area of, perhaps, a hundred yards square, more than a dozen 
specimens frequently being found on the trunk of a single large 
tree. We also took fine larvee of Notodonta chaonia crawling up 
the trunks of the oaks on the same ground. Other species 
taken by us, and other members of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ 
Union (which had an excursion there that day), either larve or 
imagos, included Thecla W-Album, Phorodesma  bajularia, 
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