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Under side : fore wings with two large semi-lanceolate ocellated spots, 

 the one nearest to the costa heing much larger than the other ; hind 

 wings with five lanceolate ocellated spots, the two spots near the upper 

 margin being confluent, with whitish centres and a large creamy 

 margin ; the other three spots are almost of equal size, the centre 

 one being slightly larger than the others. 



Accounts of this form, to recapitulate which is unnecessary, will be 

 found in the ' Entomologist,' vols, xxv; p. 215 ; xxvi. p. 281 ; and in 

 Mr. Barrett's Brit. Lep. vol. i. p. 253.— John W. Shipp; Oxford, 1894. 



CAPTURES AND FIELD EEPORTS. 



Amphidasys betularia var. doubledayakia in Ireland. — It may 

 interest some of your readers to know that from pupae dug by myself in 

 this locality last winter, A. hetularia var. doiihleJayaria emerged on June 

 26th. This is, I believe, the first recorded capture in Ireland. As I 

 possessed no pupae obtaiued from any other source at that time, there is no 

 possibility of any mistake. — W. B. Thornhill; Castle Cosey, Castle 

 Bellingham, Ireland, Dec. 9th, 1894. 



Plusia moneta in Berks. — During the last week of June, 1894, I 

 captured two specimens of Plitsia moneta in the garden here, flying at 

 larkspur (pelphmiwn) on successive evenings. I see there is another 

 specimen, I believe recently captured, in the Holland Collection at Reading 

 Museum. I want a record of this moth for Dorsetshire. — M. J. Mansfield ; 

 Hurstcroft, Ascot. 



Rare Lepidoptera at Freshwater. — I am able to record the capture 

 of five specimens of Caradrlna amhif/ita and one specimen of Leucania 

 albipuncta, at sugar, between Sept. 15th and 21st, at Freshwater, Isle of 

 Wight, all in fine condition. — P.jW. Abbott ; Four Oaks, near Birmingham. 



Lepidoptera at Light at Ipswich. — Although the year 1894 has 

 been generally adverse to day-collecting and net-work, I have not found a 

 consequent decrease in the number of Heterocera, having devoted more 

 time to the two electric arc-lamps in this town and the ordinary gas-lamps, 

 although the early morning visits to these sources in April and May were 

 not nearly so productive of insects as 1893, the only captures worth 

 recording being Taniocampa po2yuIeti and Dicranura hijida on April 9th ; 

 but this I attributed to the weather. As an instance of the diminished 

 numbers, last year, when the gas-lamps would be dotted with " brimstones," 

 their colour showing off to advantage in the rays of the rising sun, and 

 perhaps by the proximity of an example of Euchelia jacohacB, I have not 

 seen more than a half-dozen of the former this year, while of the latter not 

 one has turned up. All loss in this way, however, was made up by 

 spending an occasional evening at the electric lamps till the early hours of 

 the morning, the lost repose being amply repaid by the happy time spent in 

 continually wielding the net at occasional representatives from the " hawk- 

 moths " or other larger species. In point of abundance, the first place 

 must be assigned to Melanippe fluctuata and Noctua c-nigrum, both of 

 which were a perfect nuisance; the former was on the wing right away from 

 April to September, while on some occasions fifty of the latter might easily 



