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hedges, a distance of fully three miles from where the specimens 

 of C. hera were taken in the previous years, and on the fifth day 

 of our search my young friend, Mr. Waring, beat out a good 

 specimen, and being rather a sluggish flyer was soon safely 

 netted and bottled. While I was in the act of pinning our first 

 capture, my friend was busy securing a second, which he 

 kindly gave to me ; a third was taken by myself, making three 

 good specimens in the short space of about ten minutes. The 

 next day, being Sunday, we were leisurely walking down a lane, 

 when by an accidental touch of the hedge one bolted across our 

 path and was soon secured by my friend. The following evening, 

 myself, Waring, and two lads in our rear, were returning just as 

 it was getting dark, through a narrow lane overhung with hazel, 

 holly, oak, ivy, and long grass, when one of the lads in our 

 rear called out that a large insect had just flown over the hedge. 

 In an instant it returned, was secured, and proved to be one of 

 our finest specimens, making five altogether last August, three of 

 which I fortunately possess. I may add that the specimens, as 

 compared with foreign ones, are extremely large. Sugaring 

 proved to be quite a failure. — W. Brooks ; The Lodge, The 

 Oaks, Lower Norwood, S.E., September 11, 1884. 



Lepidoptera near Portsmouth. — I found a specimen of 

 Hepialus sylvinus at rest on a tree-trunk in Stake Wood, on June 

 10th, 1883. In the evening, July 18th, 1884, Mr. T. Larcom, of 

 Gosport, took a splendid specimen of Deilephila lineata from the 

 jessamine in his garden. From a willow tree at Char Common, 

 near Gosport, on August 10th, I procured a single larva of Cyma- 

 tophora ridens, but was unsuccessful in rearing it. — W. T. Pearce ; 

 42, St. John Street, Buckland, Portsmouth, August 27, 1884. 



Laphygma exigua near Greenwich. — It may be interesting 

 to some of our metropolitan collectors to know that I took a spe- 

 cimen of Laphygma exigua at Greenwich on the evening of July 

 8th last. The specimen was flying at dusk about a hawthorn 

 bush, with a short, jerky flight, and I thought at first it was a 

 specimen of Miana furuncula ; but was soon convinced it was 

 something different, as it kept near the bush. Having netted and 

 boxed it, I put it away with my other captures, but it was not 

 until the following morning that I recognised what a rarity I had 

 taken. — J. W. Tutt ; 45, Beaconsfield Terrace, East Greenwich, 

 September 8, 1884. 



