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daytime, owing to the enormous number of P. gamma which rise 
from the grass as I walk through it, and at night. the rooms are 
filled with them if the windows are left open; they almost put 
out the lights by knocking up against them. I have never 
noticed anything like this profusion before. Last year I saw very 
few P. cardui here, and the number of P. gamma, in comparison 
with this summer, was very limited.—C. W. Tuwarres; Villa 
Rosa, Wehlen, Saxon Switzerland, September 8, 1879. 
DIURNI OBSERVED IN THE STREETS OF MancHeEestTer.—If 
additional proof were needed of the unusual abundance of 
Pyrameis cardui this summer, it would surely be found in the 
fact of a fine specimen having been observed by me yesterday 
morning flying in almost the centre of Manchester. I have also 
observed Pieris rape, Vanessa urtice, and Polyommatus phleas at 
different times in the streets here; and V. Jo and V. Atalanta 
occur in most years in the streets and suburbs, though I have not 
observed them this abnormally wet summer.—J. C. Metnvitz; 
Prestwich, September 5, 1879. 
AcHERonTIA ATROPOS AT SHREWSBURY.—A very good speci- 
men of this moth was taken-at Ascham this week, and is now 
in the possession of the Rev. Loftus Owen. It is a great rarity 
here at the present time, but in the year 1870 the larve were 
exceedingly common on the potato and tomato.—B. Prrrcnarp; 
Frankwell Nursery, Shrewsbury, Sept. 18, 1879. 
AcuEerontrA ArTRopos at Sra —I have just received a fine 
living specimen of A. Atropos, caught on board the ‘ Cork’ light- 
ship, which is moored seven miles from the land.—F. Kerry; 
22, Maria Street, Harwich. 
BoMBYX CASTRENSIS NEAR Harwico.—In August last I 
caught some larve of Bombyx castrensis on the bentlings near ~ 
here. I might have taken many more, but not knowing what 
they were I did not take more than fifty. These began to spin 
up the same day, and the imagos appeared in September. ‘The 
eggs from which these larvee were hatched must have been under 
the water twice in every twenty-four hours during the winter 
months.—F’. Kerry; 22, Maria Street, Harwich. 
AcronycTa ALNI.— Mr. J. Cooke, of 4, Newdegate Street, 
Radford, found, on September 21st, a larva of A. alni, feeding 
upon oak in Wollaton Park.—Josrrn Brooks, See.; Nottingham 
Working Men’s Naturalist Society. 
