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Marshes, we were both somewhat startled to see a butterfly, 

 which was unmistakably a beautiful (female) specimen of the 

 large copper: it was flying within two feet of the ground, and 

 it was so close to us that if we had had a net one of us could 

 not have failed to have taken it. We pursued it with our 

 hats for a few yards, but we lost sight of it amongst a number 

 of thistles. This statement can be corroborated by my friend 

 P. Boulden, of 32, Marian Square, Anne's Place, Hackney 

 Road. — E. Mundaii ; 54, Driffield Road, Old Ford, Bow, 

 September 12, 1872. 



Hyale, Helice, cCr., at Folkestone. — During the last week 

 in August and the first in September I captured several speci- 

 metis of Hyale at the foot of the Downs, and saw many more, 

 but only one in their favourite place — the undercliff", in the 

 Lower Sandgate Road. Edusa was comparatively scarce 

 everywhere ; but 1 saw two good Helice (one alive), which a 

 young collector had taken in the last-mentioned place ; and 

 a gentleman also informed me he had seen two veritable 

 Lathonia and one Antiopa, which had been captured in the 

 Warren : but insects, taken on the whole, were certainly not 

 nearly so abundant as in 1871 and 1870. — M. N. Inman; 

 10, Upper Hamilton Terrace, London, N.W. 



Sphinx Convolvuli at Dulwich. — A specimen of Convolvuli 

 was last week captured at rest on a post, by a boy in the 

 Croxted Road : it was alive when brought to me, but owing 

 to its having passed through several inexperienced hands, it 

 is now sadly rubbed, and almost useless. — H. Ramsay Cox ; 

 West Diihvich, September 16, 1872. 



Catocala Fraxini near Canterbury. — I have to record 

 the capture of a very large female C. Fraxini at sugar last 

 night, Saturday, about three miles from Canterbury; it is just 

 a little rubbed. This is the third specimen I have taken in 

 the same wood during the last few years; the last I took 

 three years ago. 1 have shown this specimen to the Rev. T. 

 Hurst and to several other collectors. 1 have not yet killed 

 it, thinking it may lay some eggs. — G. Parry; Church 

 Street, St. PauVs, Canterbury, September 15, 1872. 



Catocala Fraxini at Ipswich. — A large specimen of C. 

 Fraxini was captured here on the 25th of August, having 

 entered a house at night attracted by light. It was placed in 

 ray hands alive the next day, and is now in my cabinet. — 

 Henry Miller ; Ipsivich, September 18, 1872. 



