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general paleness of the ground colour. The fore wings are shaded 

 with black towards the anal angle, and the spot at that point is 

 without any orange ring. The hind wings, instead of having a 

 reddish tinge, are light stone-colour, the hind marginal portion 

 slightly darker than the rest, separated from the basal half by a 

 brown line passing from the costa to the anal angle ; there are no 

 ocellated spots, but only a small blue dot near the anal angle. 

 The female has the hind wings slate-colour above, and the 

 ocellated spots are prominent and well defined. 

 Bagdad; Loftus, 1850. Aden; Yerbury, 1883. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



Pieris daplidice at Dover.— On the 11th inst. I had the 

 pleasure of receiving from a correspondent at Dover a pair of 

 Pieris daplidice, taken there the previous week. — C. A. Briggs; 

 55, Lincoln's Inn Fields, August 13, 1884. 



Argtnnis lathonia near Canterbury. — We have received 

 an interesting communication from Miss Minnie Gr. S. Jellie 

 (aged nine years), who is the proud captor of a specimen of 

 Argynnis lathonia, which she took in a clover field near 

 Canterbury on August 6th of this year. The capture is verified 

 by her father, Mr. W. Harvey Jellie.— John T. Carrington; 

 August, 1884. 



Lycena arion. — I feel quite certain that the haunts of 

 Lyctfna arion at Bolthead must be looked upon as a thing of the 

 past. I visited the old familiar spots twice this year, 28th June 

 and 5th July, without seeing a single specimen. It is now more 

 than twenty years since I first became acquainted with L. arion. 

 My first record in the ' Entomologist' of my capture of thirty-six 

 in one afternoon is in vol. ii., p. 295 ; and when I look back and 

 remember the spot then, and what it is now, it is no wonder that 

 they have disappeared. When I first visited the place the fern, 

 furze, and thyme held full possession of the slopes towards the 

 sea; all, comparatively, have gone. The farmer who rents the 

 ground has annually burnt the furze, &c. ; first one spot and then 

 another. This no doubt is the principal cause ; but we must also 

 take into consideration the great assistance the elements have 



