158 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
with the dry heat of the African desert. To add also to their 
series of calamities, the chinch-bug destroyed in many 
places those crops that the locusts spared.” 
EpwarpD NEWMAN. 
(To be continued.) 
Entomological Notes, Captures, &c. 
Captures in Somersetshire.—Lately I have become the 
possessor of Newman’s ‘ British Butterflies, and am some- 
what surprised to find this county mentioned so seldom. I 
attribute it to the fact—as Mr. Corbin states in his paper in 
the ‘Entomologist’ (Entom. viii. 139)—“ that unworked 
localities, when brought under the inspection of the entomo- 
logist, often produce the greatest number of rarities.” In our 
(this) neighbourhood I am continually finding species I had 
no idea were to be found: e.g., in the autumn of last season 
I had the good fortune to turn up a pair of Lycena Corydon, 
in good condition, in Orchard Wood, near this town, where 
no chalk was nearer (to my knowledge) than Dorset; true 
there is a lime-quarry about a mile or two from the wood. 
Last week in the same wood I was gladly surprised to take a 
pair of Melitza Artemis in splendid condition; a few speci- 
mens were taken by Mr. A. J. Spiller in 1865, but I have 
visited the locality regularly, and have no knowledge of its 
having turned up since until last week. A few days after- 
wards I happened to be hunting in the Neroche Forest, or, I 
should say, on the marshy grounds around the forest, and 
took fourteen specimens of M. Artemis, and could have taken 
dozens more, but all my boxes were filled with Nemeobius 
Lucina, Thecla Rubi, Leucophasia Sinapis, and Fidonia 
Atomaria. Now, M. Artemis might annually be found in 
Neroche, but last week was my first visit to the place; 
probably as the season advances I might turn up some other 
insect unknown as a Somersetshire species. Unfortunately, 1 
am unable to visit the forest after dark: it is some distance 
from the town, but I have heard of Eurymene dolobraria, 
Angerona prunaria, and Geometra papilionaria, having been 
taken there. Last season | took G. papilionaria, A. prunaria, 
Thyatira Batis, and Gonophora derasa, at Orchard Wood. 
