204 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
time, of its rarity in Lincolnshire. I never remember butter- 
flies so scarce as they are this year, and this has generally 
been remarked in this neighbourhood. I spent ten days last 
month on the highest part of the Shap Fells, in Westmoreland, 
and although I sometimes walked twenty miles a day, and 
was constantly out of doors, scarcely came across a single 
butterfly of any description. One of my boys is collecting 
butterflies and moths, so that I was constantly on the look 
out, and did not overlook any.—John Cordeaux; Great 
Cotes, Ulceby, Lincolnshire, August 4, 1874. 
Hepialus Velleda at Horsham, Sussex.—It may be inte- 
resting to entomologists to know that on the 15th August I 
found in the house a fine specimen of a female of the above 
species, which had been observed fluttering upon the blind 
of an open window the previous morning, and had probably 
flown in. I had always understood this to be quite a northern 
insect. The common brake is very abundant in the neigh- 
bourhood.—David Price. 
Food-plant of Orgia gonostigma.—I wish to set right a 
small mistake in respect to the food-plant of Orgyia gonostigma. 
It states in some works that this species feeds on oak, but I 
find it feeds on blackthorn and hawthorn, the latter being 
preferred. Henry Robinson; 23, Court 6 House, Gosford 
Street, Coventry. 
Deiopeia pulchella in Sussea.—A young lady friend, who 
was looking over my collection of Lepidoptera a week or two 
back, noticed a specimen of this insect in my collection, which 
was taken in Somersetshire, September, 1848, and observed 
she had taken a moth like it about a month back. I asked 
her if she was quite certain, and she said she was, and sure 
enough she was right, for on my calling to see the specimen 
found it to be in fair condition and perfect, but a pale 
example. She took me to the spot two days ago, which is in 
a field of mixed herbage, surrounded by ditches, lying — 
between Poling and Little Hampton, in Sussex, and not, I 
should have supposed, a very likely spot. She has kindly 
added the specimen to my collection. On referring she finds 
it was taken on the afternoon of the 28th of June: it flew up 
out of a patch of the Lotus corniculatus, and settled on a 
thistle. Being only a young collector she was not aware of 
the rarity at the time, so did not search for more. It must be 
