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the nativity of the species. It was most unfortunate that I had 
made arrangements to visit friends in the Midland Counties, 
and was due at Dr. Baly’s, at Warwick, at 4 p.m. I had just 
time to show the species alive to Mr. Cooke, and, on my 
arrival here, to Dr. Baly, who saw it quite fresh, it having 
just died. The specimen has evidently been taken on the 
wing, and is in fair order, but very different in condition to a 
bred specimen. Mr. P. informs me it flies in company with 
Aglaia on the slopes of one of the highest hills in Kent, and 
cannot be distinguished from that species till captured.— 
Samuel Stevens; Warwick, July 10, 1874. 
[Although Argynnis Niobe has been previously recorded 
as a British insect, by the Rev. W. Hambrough, at p. 351 of 
the sixth volume of the ‘ Entomologist,’ on the authority of a 
specimen taken in the New Forest, by Mr. Gerrard, in 1868, 
and again at p. 30 of my ‘Illustrated Natural History of 
British Butterflies, these additional captures are particularly 
interesting.— Edward Newman. | 
Vanessa Polychloros at Westbury-on-Trym.—I write to 
inform you that I captured here, on the 3lst of May, a 
specimen of Vanessa Polychloros (the great tortoiseshell) : it 
was rubbed and slightly chipped.—LZdward R. Pease ; Cote 
Bank, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, June 11, 1874. 
Limenitis Sibylla at Hendon.—I have just taken a speci- 
men of Limenitis Sibylla (in fair condition): it was flying 
along a hedge by the road-side, about half a mile from this 
place.—R. South ; Goldbeater’s Farm, Mill Hill, Hendon, 
July 14, 1874. 
Thecla W-Album on the Flowers of the Lime Tree.—My 
pupils and myself took about thirty specimens yesterday of 
Thecla W-Album on the flowers of the lime tree. I cannot 
say why they should seek this tree particularly, as there are 
only two in-my grounds, and 1 do not know of any others 
near. They settled on the flowers, and were at first very 
easily caught.—[Rev.] John W. Mills; St. Lawrence Rec- 
tory, Maldon, Essex, July 15, 1874. . 
Thecla Pruni in Buckinghamshire-—On the 4th July, 
being at Linford Wood, taking Trycheris mediana for a 
correspondent, [ captured several specimens of Thecla 
Pruni, on flowers of the privet, mostly females; and as thére 
is no record of it being taken in Bucks, perhaps you may 
