60 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 
PIERIS DAPLIDICE AND HyDRILLA PALUSTRIS AT CAMBRIDGE. — 
Last July Mr. Chas. C. Baker, of 72, King Street, Cambridge 
(and formerly Master of the King Street Schools in that town), 
was good enough to show me the collection of butterflies and 
moths formed by him some years ago in that neighbourhood. 
Amongst them was a fine specimen of P. daplidice taken by him 
near Newmarket on the 5th August, 1868; also three ca@nosa 
bred from larvee taken by him at Wicken. An unset Noctua also 
attracted my attention as belonging to a species unknown to me. — 
This he very kindly allowed me to take away and identify ; anda 
comparison with the specimen in the late Mr. Allis’s collection in 
the Museum at York showed me at once that it was a male 
H. palustris, a conclusion which Dr. Battershell Gill has since 
verified. Mr. Baker has been so exceedingly kind as to give me 
both the Bath White and the palustris, as well as a fine specimen 
of cenosa.—A. F’. GrirritH; Sandridge, St. Albans, Jan. 30, 1888. 
Notes FRoM WoTTON-UNDER-EDGE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD.— 
The season of 1882 has been generally described as an un- 
favourable one for the lepidopterist, and the few notes from this 
locality will not be very different from those sent from other parts ; 
but as they are very short, perhaps you will be able to find a space 
for them, if worthy of insertion in your pages. There has been a 
great diminution in the number of Argynnis paphia ; all the pupe 
found in June were infested by ichneumons (R.C.L.P.) On the 
other hand, A. aglaia swarmed on the hills in August, some of the 
females being exceedingly rich and darkly coloured. A. adippe was 
altogether absent. Melitea artemis occurred sparingly at the latter 
end of May. Nemeobius lucina was fairly represented, and I 
took some in very fair condition when down herein May. Thecla 
rubi swarmed in May in the hazels, and also at the flowers of the 
common bugle. I never saw this insect so abundant. The same 
may be said of Thecla quercus, among the oaks in August. 
These two butterflies were certainly exceptions to the general rule. 
Lycena alexis was decidedly scarce; L. corydon fairly common, 
but we only obtained one specimen of L. adonis, and that was in 
August. Of moths, Lithosia rubricollis was common in May, 
among Scotch firs, flying in the daytime, this insect being new 
to me in this district; and among numbers of Huchelia jacobee, 
