292 YHE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
EKvupITHECIA ABSINTHIATA, &c.—In Chatham Dockyard there is a large 
extent of waste land, some 300 acres I should think, which is overgrown 
by a variety of wild plants, such as ragwort, sea-aster, Chenopodium, Atriplea, 
various thistles, &c. Upon the former, at the present time, the larve of 
E. absinthiata simply swarm ; I have beaten a hundred from one plant, and 
they vary to an extraordinary degree, some of the varieties being very 
beautiful. They are also to be found on sea-aster, but not in such 
numbers; and upon this plant another Hupithecia larva occurs. It is 
more slender than absinthiata, and may be oblongata, though I am in 
hopes some of them will produce scabiosata, which I have frequently taken 
at rest here upon sheds and palings. Atriplea and Chenopodium are 
frequented by larve of EH. subnotata, Pelurga comitata, Hadena trifoli, 
H. pisi, and H. oleracea ; and the thistle-stems, besides having produced 
pupze of G. ochracea, are inhabited by larve of Myelophila cribrum.—GER- 
vasE F. Maruew; H.M.S. ‘Tyne.’ 
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NorEs FROM THE CHANNEL IsLanps.—Pieris daplidice has ceased to 
exist here now; and Deilephila euphorbie is to be found in very limited 
numbers. I have been informed lately by Mr. Piquet, of Jersey, that 
thirty years ago one might have taken any number of these insects. The 
case proves itself by the numbers this collector has in his possession. 
He has kindly favoured me with a series of both species. From this a 
question arises, are Jersey insects British? Morris, in his ‘ British 
Butterflies,’ evidently thinks them so by the way he speaks of P. betica, 
viz., “©. .. as likewise in the Channel Islands, on which account also it has 
a claim to our list."—-W. J. Kaye; Dudley House, Bagot, Jersey, Sept. 16. 
NorEs on THE EintomoLtoegy or Hottanp.—I am forwarding you 
some statistics of the entomology of the Hague, where I have been 
chaplain during July. I am free to confess that the entomology of Holland 
is very disappointing in number of species and also in individuals in by far 
the great majority of cases; less productive, in fact, than the ordinary run 
of country places at home. Rhopalocera:—Pieris brassice, P. rape, and 
P. napi, abundant. Vanessa atalanta, possibly about twenty specimens 
seen, mostly in wood of royal park, one caught at Wykerbrug; V. cardut, 
one caught, the only one seen, close to Zuyder Zee, about a mile EK. of 
Amsterdam outside the Muider Poort; V. polychloros, two seen, one caught 
at Wykerbrug, between the Hague and Leyden; V. urtica, possibly four 
or five seen, one caught. Satyrus semele, possibly four or five seen, one 
caught at Scheveningen on the sandhills, also on the downs at Katuigli, 
N.W. of Leyden; 8S. ianira, possibly ten or twelve seen, Scheveningen, 
Wykerbrug. Chrysophanus phlwas, two caught, the only two specimens 
seen. Heterocera:—Macroglossa stellatarum, Scheveningen, two specimens. 
Aretia menthastri, one taken, the only one seen; A. lubricipeda, one taken, 
the only one seen. Liparis auriflua, about six seen; L. chrysorrhea. 
Plusia gamma, fairly common, also at Scheveningen on the sandhills; 
P. festuce. Mamestra brassice, one specimen; M. persicaria. Acronycta 
tridens, two or three, also taken at Linne Straad outside Amsterdam. 
Leucania phragmitidis, Xylophasia polyodon, Acronycta megacephala, 
Liparis chrysorrhea, Abraxas ulmata, Melanippe biriviata (I am not quite 
certain of this as the specimen is worn), and Botys urticata, the Hague. 
Neuroptera:—Aischna grandis, the Hague and Wykerbrug. Libellula 
striolata, the Hague. Diptera:—Calliphora erythrocephala, Eristalis 
arbustorum, I’. tenax, EE. sepuichralis, Helophilus trivittatus, Musca 
