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reception on our proverbially hospitable shores, and numbers 

 of them perished miserably from the eifects of what may, in 

 their case, be termed an insect-famine; for the poor little 

 immigrants were found dead in our highways and byways 

 with little or nothing in their crops, and the accepted verdict 

 was — ** died of starvation." 



By-and-by we began to ask ourselves " Where are the 

 white butterflies ?" The gardener rejoiced, but the Entomo- 

 logist looked grave, — he couldn't get on without white but- 

 terflies. When they are common we exclaim — *' Dear me ! 

 how abundant are the white butterflies !" When they are 

 scarce — " How extraordinary !" This forms as excellent a 

 topic of conversation as the weather ; but there are those 

 who regard as an ominous sign the absence of these hardy 

 depredators — who think the world of insects is therefore 

 coming to an end. We find, however, that while these cru- 

 cifierivorous pests forsook many districts, they, and particu- 

 larly the small one, P. rapce, subsequently became suffi- 

 ciently abundant to cause no little anxiety in the mind of the 

 grower of greens. 



Looking back on the doings of the past season we find 

 that, as times go, our "Annual" List is not so bad; in point 

 of fact the following is our list of novelties : — 



1. Epichnopteryx hetulina, Zeller. 



2. Leacania L.-albunif Linne. 



3. Dianthcecia irregularis^ Hufn. 



4. Dianthcecia comptaf S. V. 



5. Lemiodes 2^ulveralisj Hiibner. 



6. Hyperm(scia augustanay H.-S. 



7. Sciaphila communana, H.-S. 



8. Dicrorampha plu7nba?ia, Scopoli. 



9. Oxyptilus teucrii, Greening. 

 But of these anon. 



