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has been more plentiful than- during last year.—Prrcy H. Russ ; 
Culleenamore, August 30, 1883. 
Captures AT Brwpiey. — I had the pleasure of a trip to 
Bewdley Forest this summer, in company with Mr. Harris, of 
Burton, and had a most enjoyable day. The place is a most 
charming one, and must produce many rarities, as it is very 
varied and of immense extent. We were there in the second week 
in June, and were favoured with an exceedingly hot day. Many 
of the ordinary Macros were well represented, but there were none 
of any special note came in our way. Lobesia reliquana was 
abundant, and odd specimens occurred of Phoxopteryx biarcuana, 
P. diminutana, and P. mitterbacheriana. Gelechia aleella and G. 
luculella were abundant on the oak-trunks; Lithocolletis robori- 
colella seemed everywhere, but rather worn; and I took two 
examples of Bucculatrix ulmella. In one place the larve of 
Pterophorus spilodactylus had done their duty as larve should. 
The plants were mere skeletons; I never saw anything more 
neatly reduced to skeletons than they were. ‘The larve had 
almost all left the plants; there were only six left. We returned 
at night with fairly well-filled boxes, and quite satisfied with our 
outing.—J. Sana; Burton-on-Trent, October, 1883. 
ABNORMITIES IN ButTrerruirs.—Last year I bred a specimen 
of Limenitis sibylla in which the right hind wing was entirely 
absent. In arecent number of the ‘Field’ Mr. Layard, of the 
British Consulate, Noumed, refers to a somewhat similar case in 
a species of moth, attributing the abnormity to injury received in 
the larval stage, his caterpillar having been accidentally pinched 
in the fore legs. In my case I had no means of judging, as the 
insect had been found with others in the pupa state. However, 
T have frequently met with instances of larve slightly attacked by 
ichneumons (where their terrible enemy, a Microgaster, had only 
succeeded in depositing but very few eggs), and having barely 
sufficient strength to make the final change, emerging with one 
or more of the wings curiously deformed or dwarfed, as the 
following cases show. I have this season bred a Melitea artemis 
having the corresponding wing to the L. sibylla absent ; one with 
the wings on the right side very much dwarfed ; another in which 
one fore wing has quite lost its normal outline; and several 
specimens of M. cinzia and Vanessa urtice similarly deformed. 
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