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Dover.—Messrs. Allbuary and EK. Knight, when collecting at Dover at 
Whitsuntide, were fortunate enough to obtain a specimen of D. pulchella. 
It was captured by Mr. Knight, and exhibited at the meeting of the North 
Kent Entomological and Natural History Society on June 8th.—H. J. 
Wess; 3, Gunning Street, Plumstead. 
This afternoon, May 28th, 1892, Miss Emden, eldest daughter of one 
of my near neighbours, and taking keen interest in natural history, came 
and awoke me from a sound sleep, stretched at full-length on my lawn, to 
say that she had caught such a pretty moth for me. My reply, in a semi- 
somnolent condition, was, ‘Oh, where is it?” when forth came a very 
much-crumpled handkerchief, with the captive secured in one corner. I 
expected to find that great rarity filiyendulé in a somewhat shiny and nude 
condition. However, I was most agreeably surprised, on opening the 
receptacle, to find a beautiful fresh female D. pulchella, and in very good 
condition, considering the manner in which it had been captured and con- 
veyed to me. When the insect first attracted her attention it flew up and 
settled at a short distance off; after a few ineffectual attempts she finally 
captured it under a light cap she was wearing, and eventually transferred it 
to the handkerchief. I was soon awake, in fact wide awake enough to take 
it indoors to more secure quarters.—J. T. Writtams; St. Margaret’s Bay, 
near Dover, May 28, 1892. 
June 6th. Since writing you last I have been diligently hunting the 
spot where the capture of pulchella took place. On the second day after, 
between 10 and 11 o'clock a.m., I caught sight of another, and had my net 
within six inches of it, but it again rose too quickly for me, and was carried 
away by the wind, which was blowing very hard at the time, and I lost 
sight of it altogether. The first one being a female I was in hopes of 
obtaining ova from her, and kept it alive for that purpose, but I did not 
succeed in getting any. I also took her out with me, with the view of 
attracting males, but was equally unsuccessful. I am not sorry that I 
tried these methods to increase my stock, although it has not added to the 
original beauty of the insect. It has given me satisfaction to know that I 
have not lost a chance for want of trying.—J. T. W. 
North of London.—On the evening of the 31st of last month, I was 
going, about 8.15, to see a friend living about a quarter of a mile from my 
house, and passing down a green road with palings on each side, separating 
it from a field, I saw, resting on the top of one of the bars of the palings, 
what I took to be, at a few yards distance, S. menthastri. On going close 
up to it, judge of my intense astonishment on seeing not the common moth 
I thought it was, but a beautiful and evidently freshly-emerged D. pulchella, 
apparently just come up for its first flight. I could hardly believe my eyes, 
as it was about the last moth I should have expected to see in this locality. 
Of its identity there was no possible doubt; but by great misfortune I had 
nothing whatever to take it with, not even a pill-box. Whilst looking at it, 
and considering how I could take it, 1 took out my pipe, which was in a soft 
leather case, hoping to get it somehow into the case; but on putting the 
case close upon it, it flew off, settling in the road upon a blade of grass. I 
again got near it, and tried to put my soft felt-hat over it, but by this time 
it was alarmed and flew over the palings on the other side. I marked the 
spot where it settled, and saw it on a dried. stalk, but on getting close to it, 
it once more took flight and disappeared altogether in the dusk. My dis- 
appointment was intense, and nearly caused me a sleepless night. I 
searched for it all round the place on the three following evenings, but have 
