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VARTATroN OF Vanessa urtic^e IN Co. Waterford, Treland. — T bred 

 several specimens of V. urticcB this year, intermediate between var. con- 

 nea'a, Butl., and the type. Is this variety rare? And has it been previously 

 noticed in Treland? I also bred some dwarf examples of the type from 

 half-starved larvae, one of which measures only 1 in. 3 lin. across the 

 expanded winpfs. I may remark here that the krvae of V. urtictB were ex- 

 tremely abundant throughout the season in this locality, and possibly more 

 of this variety could have been bred. — L. H. Bonaparte-Wyse ; Manor of 

 St. John's, Waterford, Dec. 30th, 1894. 



Note on Vanessa c-album. — Hvbernated specimens of V. c-alhum 

 were verv common near Newport in March and April. 1804. — On June 17th 

 I found four small larvie feedincr on red-currant at Greete, near Tenbury, 

 Shropshire. The first butterfly, which emerged on July 7th, was a female, 

 with pale fulvous under side ; and this is the only specimen of the pale 

 variety I have seen this year. On July 14th a male and a female, and on 

 the 20th another female, emerged ; these, as well as specimens caught on 

 the wing up to August 6th, had dark under sides. There was nothing par- 

 ticularly noticeable about the autumnal brood, the first specimen of which 

 I saw on September 1st. — W. Edney Cox ; Newport, Mon. 



Chcerocampa celerio in Lancashire. — I have to report the capture 

 of Chcerocampa celerio, in fair condition, on Nov. 4th, 1894, at Lancaster, 

 bv Mr. John Ralph, a member of the Lancaster Entom. and Nat. Hist. 

 Society, in whose possession the insect is. The insect was captured in a 

 greenhouse at Bath Mill Gardens, and Mr. Ralph had the good fortune 

 to secure one, but verv much worn, some twenty years ago. in this locality. 

 —Ed. Willan ; 92, Penny Street, Lancaster, Dec. 20th, 1894. 



Dragonflies in Surrey. — In the December number of the ' Entomo- 

 logist ' (xxvii. 349) is a very interesting note by Mr. W. J. Lucas of the 

 fifteen species of dragonflies observed by him at the Black Pond, Esher, 

 Surrey. Of these fifteen species three, viz., Mschna mixta, Agrion tenelhmi, 

 and A. pulchellum. I have hitherto failed to notice at mv favourite hunting- 

 ground, the Hut Pond, Wisley, which is only a few miles distant from the 

 Black Pond and in a very similar locality ; but probably the last-mentioned 

 species {pulchellum) I have overlooked, as I found one which I could not 

 otherwise account for, among some A. puella from that pond. Of those 

 species, neither included in my list (E. M. M. vol. xxix. pp. 9 and 141) of 

 the twenty species found at the Hut Pond, nor in Mr. Lucas's record, one, 

 viz., C. Virgo, I found in abundance at Newark Abbey, Ripley, some two 

 and a half miles from the Hut Pond ; so that from this small district of 

 Surrey, not eight miles from point to point, we have now recorded twenty- 

 four species out of our thirty-nine. Can any other district show so rich a 

 record ? Of the fifteen other species, six, viz., L. fulva, 0. ccerulescens, 

 S. sangtdneum. S. flaveolum, C. aymulatiis, and L. nympha, may possibly 

 yet occur in the district : while three, viz , C. metallira, C. arctica, and M. 

 horenlis, are only to be taken, so far as Great Britain is concerned, in the 

 Highlands; three others, viz., C. curtisii, I. puniilio, and E. merciirinle, are 

 apparently confined to the New Forest, though the last-mentioned has been 

 said to occur both in Cornwall and Scotland, but not recorded ; while of the 

 remaining species, one, ^. nifescens, is confined to the Fens ; and two, G. 



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