24 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



destruction of this beautiful insect in such unnecessary num- 

 bers ; but I cannot at all regard Mr. Clogg's communication 

 in the light of an advertisement : Mr. Clogg expresses no ap- 

 probation, but merely states that a collector, employed by a 

 dealer in Loudon, has done so-and-so : he is no particeps 

 criminis : the evil, I fear, is one that cannot be cured ; it is 

 owing to the avidity with which such beautiful butterflies are 

 purchased in London : demand creates supply wherever prac- 

 ticable. — Edward Newntan.^ 



EntG7nological Notes from Deal. — The year 1865 will 

 long be remembered as one of the best butterfly years we 

 have had for some time ; but it has not been the year for 

 Cohas Edusa. In a field near here a few specimens of Colias 

 Hyale were taken, but the only specimen of C. Edusa I have 

 seen was on the 22nd of October : it appeared from its fresh- 

 ness to be just out. Of Pyrameis Cardui there have been a 

 few. All other butterflies have been abundant, Vanessa 

 Urticae has produced brood after brood : I find that the early 

 brood, after flying a few days, lays up for the winter ; three 

 of them laid up in a dark part of my staircase ; all the hot 

 and fine weather of September never roused them from their 

 trance ; but the later brood was flying about most merrily. 

 In a marsh near Sandwich I found a lot of Melitaea Artemis, 

 a iew of Macroglossa Bombyliformis, and lots of the pretty 

 green Ino Statices, a sight that would have gladdened the 

 heart of any young Entomologist. I took at the same spot 

 Hyria auroraria : I think this new to Deal : I never took it 

 before anywhere but in Hampshire. I have again taken a 

 specimen of Ennomos Alniaria (female), at a lamp, but I am 

 sorry to say a bad one. Sugar has been a dead letter here. 

 During the fine and hot weather the nights were always 

 foggy. Acherontia Atropos has been rather common, — H. J. 

 Harding ; Park Cottage, Upper Deal, Kent. 



Remarks on various Insects. — It was in May, 1853 and 

 1854, that I took Chalybe Pyraustella, Rdslerstammia pronu- 

 bella and Pyrochroa pectinicornis, in Sutherlandshire ; and 

 as these insects are still unique as British, it may interest 

 some of your readers to know the exact spot where they 

 occurred, especially as now there is a railway within a very 

 short distance of the place. They were all found within a 

 short distance of one another, in a birch-wood on the banks 



