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Argynnis Lathonia at Broadstatrs.—I sent you Lathonia 
in great haste on Saturday evening, and may I beg your 
acceptance of it. I have taken five near Broadstairs, all in 
one field, between St. Peter’s and Broadstairs. I took one 
three weeks ago in the same spot, which I sent to the Rev. 
P. H. Jennings, of Longfield Rectory. I do not know how 
they will tray ek but they were all in good condition when 
caught.— W. Wigan ; Wincheap, Canterbury, September 
18, 1874. 
rMr. Wigan has my sincere thanks for this valuable 
present: it arrived in the finest state of health and activity. 
I trust that notice of any pure Re of this butterfly will 
be sent as soon as made.—l. Newman. | 
Smerinthus ocellatus a zn September.—I had the 
larve of S. ocellatus feeding on apple through July: one 
turned to a pupa on the 31st July, and scarcely. buried itself; 
it could be seen just under the surface of the earth, and came 
out on the lst of September quite perfect, and the colours 
very clear and rich; a male, but certainly smaller than 
usual. Is it not an uncommon occurrence? I ought to 
have said that the cage was kept in a room with windows 
looking to the north and east, and the cage quite away from 
any sunlight—H. C. Hodges; The Cottage, Walton-at- 
Stone, near Hertford, September 12, 1874. 
[This is unusual, but I have known other instances.— 
EL, Newman. |] 
The Plague of Ants.—Since so much has been written in 
the newspapers lately concerning the so-termed “plague of 
ants,” perhaps the following may be of some interest: —When 
travelling from Plymouth to Falmouth a gentleman mentioned 
in the course of conversation that a remarkable incident had 
occurred to some friends of his, on the 20th of August last, 
when cruising in their yacht off the Longships Lighthouse, on 
the coast of Cornwall, about seven or eight miles from Fal- 
mouth. They said that they had sailed through millions upon - 
millions of winged ants, and that the sea was for a long 
distance black with them ; indeed, that they amused them- 
selves for a long time in dipping them up in buckets, and 
that the waves that the vessel threw off from her bow in 
dividing the water were black instead of white. The 
following I copied from a Plymouth newspaper :—“ The Ant 
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