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low country, on the Persian Gulf, I don't believe they com- 

 prise anything besides wasps and mosquitoes. As regards 

 British species in this part of the world, P. Brassicae, Rapa?, 

 Napi, C. Edtisa, C. Hyale (I have grounds for suspecting 

 this latter to have livo female forms),' are all that are on the 

 wing now. During the past season I captured, inter alia, 

 P. Machaon, P. Daplidice, C. Cardui, V. Atalanta, V. Urticae, 

 V. C-Albura, A. Paphia, A. Lathonia, L. Megajra, P. Argiolus, 

 C. Phlgeas en md-fse. S. Convolvuli, C. Celerio (I have six- 

 teen fine specimens in my collection, and have given away 

 as many more), C. Elpenor, C. Porcellus, are common ; C. 

 Nerii is not uncommon, the oleander growing in profusion in 

 river-beds. In another two months that torment P. Gamma 

 will be round the petunias of an evening by the hundred. 

 I have collected thirty odd species of Sphinges, all taken on 

 the wing at marvel of Peru, jasmine or petunia flowers : the 

 larvae 1 have met with but twice, once some thirty or forty of 

 a non-British Choerocampa on a species of water Ranunculus ; 

 I came across them while up to my knees in water, snipe- 

 shooting, and again a solitary individual of some iSphinx on 

 a wild sloe. — Artlmr Young ; Assistant Con senator 0/ Fo- 

 rests, MadJtopoor, Punjab, February 10, 1866. 



Lepidoptera observed near Duwfries. — In the ' Trans- 

 actions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History 

 and Antiquarian Society ' for Session '63 — 64, which 1 have 

 just received, there is a paper by Mr. W. Lennon on " Rare 

 Lepidoptera observed in the Vicinity of Dumfries." Perhaps 

 the list may interest the readers of the ' Entomologist.' 

 Thecla Quercus : Comlorgan \Yood and Dalscairth (the for- 

 mer is an ancestral possession of Lord Mansfield's, about ten 

 miles south of Dumfries, near the coast, the latter on the 

 slope of the wooded hills — rich in mosses, Hepaticae and 

 ferns — that bound to the west the valley in which the town 

 is situated, the "happy valley" the natives term it). Mr* 

 Lennon has found, on inquiry of several of the Cumberland 

 and Westmoreland entomologists, that Quercus 1kis not been 

 seen in either of these neighbouring ccnnilies. Notodonta 

 dictaea and N. dictaeoides : grounds of the Crichton Institu- 

 tion, close to the town. Tephrosia crepuscularia : Dalscairth. 

 Gcometra ])a]iilionaria : near Donievale and Tin.wald Downs. 

 Venusia cambricaria : Dalscairth. Scotosia undulata : Tin- 



