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came with a jerk and settled on a dead cypress branch close . 
beside me. I at once recognised it by its “snout” to be Libythea 
labdaca, an insect I had assiduously sought after for four years 
past. It obligingly waited whilst I drew a little net from my 
pocket and adjusted it, and upon taking the prize I found I had 
secured a lovely perfect female. How many score of Crenis 
Natalensis and boisduvalii have I netted during the past four 
years in the vain hope that this species would be amongst them ! 
I am the more proud of my capture since it is the only specimen 
taken in Natal since 1878, in which year half-a-dozen individuals 
were secured. The wooded district in the neighbourhood of 
Verulam is stunted, and not higher than the under-growth of an 
average English copse; but there is one place where the trees 
are high, and form a natural avenue. This is a favourite spot 
for certain high-flying butterflies, especially Papilio leonidas, 
Diadema Misippus, Anthedon, and Dubea, Charaxes brutus, 
saturnus, and cetheron. Last Saturday (Feb. 17th) I was in 
this avenue, and whilst watching these butterflies as they circled 
and coquetted in merry groups, now chasing each other through 
the sunlit branches and anon resting on some dead and dry twig, 
I noticed among a group of the genus Diadema a fine specimen 
that was new to me. Having a long-handled net I at once 
secured it, and found my prize to be a splendid female expanding 
over four inches, and of a species distinct from Anthedon, Mima 
or Missipus. Considerably exercised in my mind, I returned 
home, and after luncheon returned again to the avenue, where 
fortune again awaited me, for I captured a male specimen of the 
same species as I had secured in the morning. What it is I am 
not prepared to say, but on my return I intend to have my 
enormous collection of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera thoroughly 
overhauled, and the new species made known to Science.—A. J. 
SprtuteR; Verulam, Natal, Feb. 19, 1883. 
Emus HIRTUS NEAR REDRUTH.—I took a specimen of the 
above insect near Lizard Point, in the autumn: of 1881, but was 
not sure of its identity. However, having to go to London this 
winter I took it up with me, and at the British Museum they 
assured me it was a true specimen of H. hirtus and a great rarity. 
—A. Hammron Jenkin; Trewirgie, Redruth, Cornwall, April 17, 
1883. 
