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the imago of Colias Hyale was more abundant this month 

 than any other. C. Porcellus continued to come commonly 

 to flowers until the close of the year. 



William Watkins. 



Convalescent Depot, Wellington, Madras, 

 July 7, 1873. 



[I feel some hesitation in accepting the names of British 

 insects as inhabitants of India without comparison. Perfectly 

 aware that the same species does occur in Britain and in 

 India, it still seems desirable to institute a rigid comparison 

 before assuming that so many Indian species are identical 

 with our own. I have also noticed that Mr. Watkins 

 mentions the Eucalyptus as native in India. I thought it 

 was confined to Australia. I need scarcely say that I shall 

 always be glad to receive a continuation of these communi- 

 cations. — Edward Newman,] 



Captures in the New Forest in 1873, from June 23rc? to 

 July Q.\st ; including Ten Days at Freshwater, Isle of 

 Wight. By W. H. Tugwell. 



The season, as a rule, has been a very dull one, and old 

 resident collectors speak of it as the worst they recollect. 

 Sugar was a perfect failure, — it was literally "wasting one's 

 sweetness on the desert air," and, as a consequence, com- 

 paratively few Noctuge were captured. Those fortunate 

 collectors who recollect the year 1871 there would have 

 been particularly struck at the scarcity of the then abundant 

 species, — Sibylla, Paphia, Adippe, Aglaia, Selene, and 

 Sinapis, — which then absolutely swarmed in the rides of the 

 enclosures by day ; and the sugared trees, teeming with 

 dozens of Promissa, Sponsa, Turca, and enough Oo on dark 

 patches of sugar to give it the appearance of almond-rock at 

 night, were things of the past. Common day-flying species 

 were few and far between, and your sugar a blank, except an 

 occasional slug or beetle; and insect life, excepting that of 

 Diptera, was decidedly much less prolific than usual. 



One of my principal objects was to retake our new burnet, 

 Zyga^na Meliloli ; and by devoting twelve days to this species 



