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of the insects referred to in his diary, many of the entries 

 therein are very interesting, and as the gentleman to whom I am 

 indebted for a copy of the diary has very courteously given me 

 permission to publish extracts therefrom, I have selected the 

 following : — 



"August 1st, 1832. — To-day I have obtained from Mr. 

 Lambert a most extraordinary specimen of Limenitis Camilla, 

 the upper surface of which has only a very small portion of the 

 usual white bands which cross the wings. It is on the right 

 posterior wing; beneath, nearly the whole of the white band and 

 markings are wanting. I gave him Is. for it. It was taken at 

 Colchester, in Essex, and he informs me that he also saw one 

 other similar, but was not fortunate enough to take it. The 

 insect was very numerous this season, but owing to the high 

 wind he did not take many." When we remember that in 

 Ha worth's time L. sihi/Uawas known in England as " L. Camilla," 

 we shall understand that the purchaser had not been "taken in," 

 but on the contrary obtained a good variety at an exceedingly low 

 figure, if comparison is made with the prices such examples 

 realise at the present day. 



" August 25th, 1835. — Mr. Bennett informs me that the pale 

 clouded yellow {Colias hijale) has been taken within the last few 

 days, in some fields to the right and left of the bridge over the 

 canal at New Cross. Mr. B. has taken three specimens at Box 

 Hill this year." 



" September 10th. — Went to Mr. Newman's. He gave me a 

 worn specimen of C. hyale, which he took in the above locality 

 with eight others. He knows a man who took seventeen others 

 at the same place and about the same period. Altogether he has 

 heard of fifty-one specimens taken in different parts of the 

 country, and C. edusa in profusion near Gravesend. Last 

 Sunday a specimen was seen in Battersea Fields, and another at 

 Dulwich. He has also heard of three specimens of P. daplidice 

 being taken at Dover this year, and Melolonthafidlo at Margate. 

 Papilio podalirius has also, it is said, been taken — three speci- 

 mens, of which Mr. Curtis has one. I last night learnt from a 

 gentleman who was at Mr. Stephens', that the day before 

 yesterday he saw a specimen of Vanessa antiopa on the borders 

 of Epping Forest, which passed while he was in a carriage." 

 Perhaps the most important items in these entries are the 

 records of the two species of Colias. At the present time 

 Metolonthafallo, perhaps better known as Polijphijlla fidlo, is not 

 recognised as British, and Papilio podalirius is not placed on our 

 lists as a native. 



" July 3rd, 1836.— Took a cocoon of ClisiocamjJa [Bomhyx] 

 neustria which contained two pupae, male and female. I could 

 not perceive the exuvia, when I tore open the cocoon, of more 

 than one larva. I will not however positively assert there were 



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