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Insects at Sea. — Ever since we left Tunis, all along the 

 Malta Channel, and upwards to Italy, the sea was covered 

 with large brown butterflies, moths of all sizes, and dragon- 

 flies, evidently just dead, as they had not been long in the 

 water. For four or five days we sailed through many miles of 

 water without finding any diminution in their number, and 

 we began to ask ourselves the question whether they could 

 have been a provision of Nature for the sustenance of birds 

 during their passage. — J. S. Walker : Yacht ^ Aline,' Palermo, 

 April 5, 1873. 



Vanessa Aniiopa at Whitby. — I beg to inform you that 

 my brother, whilst staying at Whitby last week, was fortunate 

 enough to capture a hybernated specimen of Vanessa Antiopa. 

 He had no net with him at the time, and was obliged to 

 make use of his hat, which unluckily damaged the plumage 

 slightly on the right upper wing. — W. H. Danby ; July 3, 

 1873. 



Va?iessa Antiopa in Essex. — As I was driving through 

 Canewdon to-day I saw a fine specimen of Antiopa ; it 

 settled on the hedge close to me, but I was unable to capture 

 it. It was the pale-bordered variety. — E. A. Fitch ; Down 

 Hall, Rayleigh, July 25, 1873. 



Lyccena Arion near Gloucester. — I caught a specimen of 

 the large blue, Lycsena Arion, male, at Stinchcombe Hill, 

 near Dursley, Gloucester, on the 23rd of June. — D. G. 

 Lathom Brown; Winkfield, Beckenham, July 8, 1873. 



Variety of Calluna. — I have just added to my collection a 

 nice variety of the male of Bombyx Callunae, bred this month 

 by my cousin Herbert Porritt. The chocolate colour is 

 darker than in ordinary specimens, and the usual yellow 

 band is entirely replaced by one of dark olive-green. — Geo. 

 T. Porritt; Huddersjield, July 11, 1873. 



Limacodes Asellus and Zygeena Filipendula. — On July 3rd 

 I took a single specimen of L. Asellus, in Crabbe Wood, 

 near here ; and although I beat some time in the same place 

 I could not turn up any more. Several specimens of the 

 yellow variety of Z. Filipendulae, before chronicled in your 

 pages, have been taken again this year. — C. L. Raynor ; The 

 College, Winchester, July 20, 1873. 



Lithosia Quadra at Kingsland. — I had a fine specimen of 

 this insect brought to me alive. It was taken in a green- 



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