20 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Sherwood Forests. T. Pruni; common; Barnwell Wold. 
These hairstreaks seemed very fond of the bramble and 
privet blooms, and we found that the best way to take them 
was to stand near a good batch of bloom, and wait. 
L. Asellus; one, by beating sallow; New Forest. Z. Meli- 
loti; not uncommon in one particular ride in Stubby Copse ; 
New Forest. C. miniata; Barnwell Wold and New Forest. 
L. mesomella; New Forest. E. dolobraria; Sherwood 
Forest. N.zonaria; Wallasey. P. Cytisaria and M. Euphor- 
biata; New Forest. C. Populata; common; Huddersfield. 
E. lineolata; Wallasey. A. Aceris; Southampton. X. He- 
patica and M. anceps; Barnwell. L. Cespitis; Sherwood 
Forest. X. Polyodon; one or two, very dark; Muker, North 
Yorkshire. A. caliginosa; New Forest. N. glareosa; in 
profusion; Sherwood Forest. T.opima; Wallasey. EH. Ful- 
vago, EK. nigra, and M. Oxyacanthe (dark var.) ; Sherwood 
Forest. H. Atriplicis and C. Scrophularie ; Whittlesea. I 
also saw one specimen of C. promissa at the New Forest, but 
unfortunately missed it.—S. L. Mosley; Edwinstowe, No- 
vember 16, 1874. 
Vanessa Urtice in 1874.—It would be interesting to 
have some account of what was observed by entomologists 
last year in the matter of the appearances of this insect. 
In the vicinity of Gravesend there were certainly a few 
stragglers about on the wing during April and May, but, 
though I examined nettles in many spots, I saw no broods of 
larve in the early summer, at the time they are usually 
noticeable, and from these fresh specimens ought to appear 
some time in June. 1 do not know how it may have been 
elsewhere, but [ strongly suspect that about this part of 
Kent there was only one brood of V. Urtice, the larve of 
which I saw in July: this would be consequent upon the cold 
and dry weather of the spring months retarding oviposition, 
or killing, possibly, some individuals before that could take 
place.—J. Rh. S. Clifford. 
Scarcity of Pyrarga Egeria (Entom. vii. 129).—I much 
incline to your correspondent’s opinion that P. Egeria has 
been written about in books as being much commoner in 
Britain than is actually the case, though in some localities it 
may be abundant. Of course it is possible that the species 
may have been more generally abundant before so wholesale 
