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late in the season. Observing two winch looked good 

 specimens flying about near one another I netted ihem, and 

 found one was a female, evidently just emerged, and the 

 other a male, in only lair condition. I killed the female, and 

 let the male go. Noticing, however, that the male continued 

 to fly round my head I held out the female in my hand : the 

 circle of flight of the male became smaller and smaller ; and 

 at last the insect alighted on my hand, where it sat for some 

 little time, until 1 moved off to show it to a friend who was 

 with me. It then flew off", but again alighted ; and we 

 watched it on my hand for a minute or two. 1 then took it 

 by the wings and threw it into the air. It flew overhead for 

 a little time, but then seemed to have lost the attraction, and 

 flew away. I may mention that at the same time and place 1 

 took one of the variety Valezina, and missed another; my 

 friend also took one the next day.— [Rev,] W. W. Fowler; 

 Repton, Burton-on-Trent. 



On Hesperia Act.^son, &c. — This little butterfly has been 

 very scarce this year, as well as all other insects; but last 

 year it was in greater profusion than I have ever seen it. 

 The first I captured was on June 20th, and the last on 

 September 4ti). It is more widely distributed than is 

 commonly supposed, as I have taken it in various places on 

 the Dorset coast, from Swanage to Preston Preventive Station, 

 which is not far from Weymouth. At Portland 1 have taken 

 onlj' a couple of Acidalia clegeiieraria, three of A. rusiicafay 

 and three of Eudorea plioeoliica, besides several of Psylla 

 artemisi(B. These species are almost, if not entirely, con- 

 fined to Dorsetshire, as far as the British Isles are concerned, 

 with the exception perhaps of A. rusticata. — C. W. Dale ; 

 Glanville's Wootlon, August 2, 1878. 



Variety of Lyc^na Alexis. — Whilst collecting in the 

 Isle of Wight I captured, on June 6lh, an hermaphrodite 

 specimen of LyccBna Alexis ; the two wings on the left-hand 

 side being the ordinary male type, whilst the right-hand side 

 has the female markings clearly defined, the red marginal 

 spots being very distinct. The female side of the specimen 

 is smaller, and the wings are rounder than the male side. 

 It was flying in a chalk-pit at Arreton, together with a great 

 many common blues and heaths. — Arthur J. Rose; Mutlah 

 Lodge, College Avenue, Hackney, June 20, 1878. 



Larva of Noctua rhomboidea. — As nearly three years 

 have now elapsed since the autumn when I had the good 

 luck to obtain eggs of this species (in that season one of the 



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