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literally swarming- on the north bank of the Ser- 

 pentine in Kensington Gardens, though not one was 

 to be seen on the south bank, nor in any other spot 

 in the vicinity. In the same way we once noticed 

 some hundreds of the burnet moth (Anthrocera fili- 

 pendula, STEPHENS) on a small portion of the 

 north shore of the Great Cumbra Island in the Firth 

 of Clyde ; but though on the same day we made a 

 botanical excursion all round the island, as well 

 as on the opposite coasts of Largs and of the 

 Isle of Bute, we did not elsewhere meet with one of 

 those insects. In the dell below the hanging-wood 

 at Charlton, in Kent, we observed a similar local 

 assemblage of the cinnabar moth (Calimorpha ja- 

 B, LATREILLE), not one being discoverable in 



a, Marsh fri till ary (Melitcea artems). b, Six-spot burnet moth (^Anthrocera 

 Jilipendulce). 



