196 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
1892. One specimen was in beautiful condition, the other worn. This 
insect has not, I believe, been previously recorded in Dorsetshire.—(Rev.) 
O. PrckaRD-CamBrinGE ; Bloxworth Rectory, July 16, 1892. 
ScYBALICUS OBLONGIUSCULUS IN DorsETsHIRE.—I took six specimens 
of this beetle at Ringstead, Dorsetshire, on the 1st July this year.—(Rev.) 
F’. O. Pickarp-CamBriDcE; 5, Henry Street, Carlisle. 
Noctu# in DorsersHire.—Three nights’ sugaring in Bere Wood, near 
Bloxworth (July 7th, 8th, and 11th) produced the following result :— 
Cymatophora duplaris, common. Thyatira batis and T. derasa, rather 
scarce.  Leucania lithargyria, L. impura, and L. pallens, abundant. 
Xylophasia rurea, abundant. Apamea gemina, common. Miana strigilis, 
common. Noctua plecta, common. N. ditrapezium, six specimens. N. tri- 
angulum, N. brunnea, and N. festiva, exceedingly abundant ; on an average 
about a dozen or more of these three on every tree. Triphena subsequa, 
one specimen. Aplecta herbida, two specimens—one fine, one worn. A. 
nebulosa, exceedingly abundant. Huplewia lucipara, exceedingly abundant. 
Mania typica, one specimen. Caradrina blanda, common. Besides these, 
T’. pronuba, T. orbona, Xylophasia polyodon, and other universally abun- 
dant insects, were swarming; and a few species of Agrotis were beginning 
to make their appearance. — A. W. Pickarp-CamBripgr; Bloxworth 
Rectory, July 16, 1892. 
A Remintscence.—Mr. E. L. Layard, writing in the ‘ Field’ (June 
18th), says :—“ Fifty-one years ago I was living at Cambridge, and scoured 
the country round in search of Lepidoptera. On the Devil’s Dyke, the 
old Saxon rampart near Newmarket, I found Colias edusa and C. hyale (the 
clouded yellow and pale-clouded yellow) in some abundance. My late wife, 
then a girl, took numerous specimens of both on the heath, between Isle- 
ham and Mildenhall, and got bitten in the foot by a viper in the pursuit. 
She also took several examples of Deiopeia pulchella (the crimson speckled 
footman) in the larval and perfect stages. I exhibited these rare butterflies, 
and a specimen of Vanessa antiopa (the Camberwell beauty), taken by my 
brother-in-law from a little lad who had knocked it down with his cap ina 
Jane at Bottisham, near Cambridge, and was only too proud to give them to 
‘the doctor,’ to Professors Babington, Henslow, and others, who were 
greatly pleased with them. I also gave specimens to that well-known ento- 
mologist, the Rev. Leonard Jenyns, who was then vicar of Swaffham, and 
to old Downie, the entomologist who supplied many rare things to the 
collectors among the undergraduates. Downie, in return, put me up to 
seeking the large copper butterfly. Acting on his suggestion, I went 
down to Yaxley Fen, near Huntingdon, and was fortunate enough to 
secure several fine examples of Lycena dispar, and the scarce copper, 
L. virgauree. I also took some fine Papilio machaon, and ‘several rare 
British moths. This country is, 1 believe, now all drained, and, the food- 
plants of these rare British ‘ flies’ being extirpated, the ‘ flies’ themselves 
have all disappeared, I suppose. It would be interesting if any of your 
readers, living in that neighbourhood, would give us some information on 
this point. ‘The year 1841 was a famous year for butterflies. I recollect 
the fields round Isleham swarming with Jno statices (the green forester), 
and the five-spot and six-spot burnets (Anthrocera loti and A. filipendula). 
Isleham, as its name implies, was in the Cambridgeshire fens, the ‘ Island 
hamlet.’ It was approached from Fordham (another suggestive name) by 
a raised causeway. I believe all this country is now drained.” 
