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ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c., 
RwopaLocera IN Centra, Germany.—During the past summer I 
have been on a visit to my native town, Biedenkopf, in Middle Germany. 
Although I did not reach there till the latter part of August, I found 
butterflies still abundant, in spite of the wet and cold weather in the early 
part of the season. The small town of Biedenkopf (about 4000 inhabitants), 
‘which is situated in 51° N, lat., and 6° E. long., lies by the river Lahn in 
a nest of mountains, spurs of the Westerwald, and can be reached from 
London in twenty-four hours. The new railway, opened a few years ago, 
connects the valleys of the rivers Sieg and Lahn, and passes first through 
the mining district by the town of Siegen, thence by a most romantic 
journey over the mountains down into the valley of the Lahn, where 
Biedenkopf is situated. Within three or four miles north-west lies the 
little town of Hatzfeld, on the river Eder, which, flowing northwards, 
forms a tributary to the Weser, and is noted for good trout and salmon 
fishing. At this spot stands a pretty villa belonging, I believe, to Colonel 
Teesdale, where the Prince of Wales is sometimes a guest. The mountains 
around Biedenkopf are about 500 metres above the sea-level, and the 
heights are wooded partly with pines and firs, but mostly with beeches and 
oaks. The formation consists of clay-slate, gray-wacke, and greenstoue, 
although among the mountains are chalk districts intermixed with quartz. 
On the banks of the Lahn, alders, willows, and poplars. grow in profusion. 
I will now enumerate a few species of Rhopalocera which I captured within 
ten minutes’ walk of the town, mostly ou the flowery and heather-grown 
slopes of the mountains:—Papilio machaon (common everywhere in the 
streets, fields, and mountains), Colias hyale (common), C. edusa, Gonopteryx 
rhamni (very common), Argynnis latonia, A. dia, Vanessa album, V. poly- 
chloros, V. urtice, V. antiopa (common in orchards near town), V. io, Arge 
galatea, Erebia liyea, E. @thiops (very common), KH. medusa, Satyrus 
semele, S. proserpina, E’pinephele ianira, Pararge megera, Thecla betula, 
T. rubi, Polyommatus virgauree (common), Syrichthus malva, Hesperia 
comma. Nearly all the Rhopalocera on the British list, besides many 
others, occur; but I draw especial attention to the following :— Papilio 
podalirius, Limenitis populi, Apatura iris (common in mountain paths), 
A, ilea var. elytie, Satyrus circe { proserpina] (taken in fair numbers every 
season), S. hermione, 8. briseis, Colias palemon, Lycena arion (on sunny 
slopes), resorts to bramble blossom, flies quickly, similar to hyale, and is 
soon lost to view. The Heterocera met with will be more fully referred to 
on a future occasion. For the present I will only say that Catocala 
fraxini occurs frequently on the Italian poplars planted in avenues along 
the main roads. Incidentally I may mention that in a wood close to the 
town I discovered the plant Impatiens moli-mi-tangere, and drew my 
nephew’s attention to it. He has since collected a number of larvee from 
it, which, from the description, L believe to be Cidaria reticulata.— 
J. Jicer; 180, Kensington Park Road, Notting Hill, W., Nov. 1891. 
Rare Micro-Leprpoprera.—Among my duplicates I found a very fine 
specimen of Catoptria nimbana. Also a third specimen of Lryotropha 
obscurella ; this species is very easy to distinguish from any other. My 
second specimen of Retinia margarotana was discovered among the legions 
of duplicates I possess.—J. 13. HODGKINSON ; Ashton-on-Ribble, Noy. 1891. 
