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doubtful. The fecundity of the Calandra can scarcely be 
imagined, as it is reputed to be one of the most prolific of 
coleopterous insects. If report speaks truly, that a single pair 
may produce six thousand in one year, we may well enquire 
what remedy we have to check the ravages and enormous damage 
of these insect pests. 
While writing this the post has brought me a note from Mr. 
Fitch, in which he says :—‘*‘ I have sent you a few more granary 
Coleoptera in hopes that Hypophlwus at any rate will not now be 
a desiderata to either yourself or friends.’’ The contents of this 
box will form the subject of a second note. 
4, Swiss Villas, Coplestone Road, Peckham, October 4, 1879. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &e. 
EFFECT OF THE WET SUNLESS SEASON ON THE LEPIDOPTERA 
or THE New Foresr.—I visited Lyndhurst on 10th July, and 
returned to town on Tuesday, 12th August; during the whole 
period I do not think a day passed without rain. As might be 
expected, there was a retardation of the time of appearance of all 
Lepidoptera, but especially the Rhopalocera. <Argynnis Paphia 
and Argynnis Aglaia were not seen on the wing till 18th July; the 
males of Paphia were not abundant until the end of the month, and 
the females not before the early part of August. Argynnis Selene, 
which usually appears early in June, was on the wing the whole 
of July, and I captured a female on 11th August apparently but 
just emerged from the chrysalis. Argynnis Adippe, which is 
sometimes met with late in June, appeared first on 19th July and 
continued on the wing till the period I left, viz., 11th August. 
Limenitis Sibylla was first seen 21st July, but it was not till 
August had arrived that the species appeared in any abundance. 
But the most noteworthy fact was, that the weather was so cold 
that the swift-flying butterflies A. Paphia and L. Sibylla were 
benumbed, and could, even in the middle of the day, be easily 
taken off the brambles with the fingers; and on one occasion 
when I placed my net over A. Paphia, var. Valezina, the specimen 
fluttered down amongst the herbage and allowed me to take it in 
my cyanide bottle. It was startling to observe Limenitis Sibylla 
flapping along as slowly as a Pieris, and I often thought of 
