314 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Oxyacanthae, abundant. Aprilina, not uncomraon. Meticu- 

 losa, September, a tew. Nebnlosa, common. Dentina, com- 

 mon. Lithorbiza, a few. Exoleta, abundant. Rbizobtha, 

 one. Umbratica, common. Festucae, a few. Chiysitis, a 

 few. Bractea, one. Libatrix, a few. Maura, a few. Mi, a 

 few. — H. Anderson; Cloncaird Castle, Janudry 10, 1873. 



Hxjhernaliny Specimen of Vanessa Antiopa. — Many of 

 your readers will be interested to bear tbat a specimen of 

 Vanessa Antiopa was taken here yesterday. A young lady 

 was passing under some trees on her way home from church 

 after morning service, when a large butterfly, which proves to 

 be a Camberwell beauty, fell in a torpid state, though still 

 living, upon her hat. ' You have recorded many instances 

 last summer of the appearance of this rare butterfly, whose 

 annus mirahilis in England has been 1872. But that it 

 should have favoured us with its presence in January is a 

 most extraordinary fact. — J. N. Simpkbison ; North Creake 

 Rectory, January 6, 1872. 



Lycana Arion at Barnwell Wold. — ^In answer to one of 

 your correspondents' questions in last month's number 

 of the 'Entomologist' (Entom. vi. 286) relative to Lycaena 

 Arion, I can say that I lived near Barnwell Wold during 

 the autumn of 1863 and the season of 1864; that I was 

 daily on the spot during June and July, 1864, searching 

 in vain ; that I have repeatedly visited the spot since, 

 in the season, unsuccessfully ; and, although I have taken 

 much trouble in making enquiries, I have not heard of 

 the capture of one single specimen since 1860. In 1858 

 and 1859 Arion was unusually abundant; and the wet 

 season of 1860, which did so much damage to insect-life 

 generally, was not so fatal to Arion ; but, as I am informed, 

 dealers did their best in that year to assist the weather. 

 L. Arion, like others of the genus, rests on the top of field- 

 flowers and grasses in cloudy and wet weather, and in the 

 open fields in the limited locality where this species was 

 found: the insect at rest was a conspicuous and easy victim. 

 I am told that one dealer in 1860 took two hundred speci- 

 mens in this manner, many of which had never flown. I 

 cannot believe, however, that collectors and dealers can 

 utterly have extirpated the species in one year, as although 

 the head-quarters of the insect were of limited extent, yet 



