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a. pedes nigri ; femora antica apice, tibiae easdem fere totae, 

 rufescentes ; tibiae posteriores basi fusco-piceae ; calcaria rufo 

 pallida ; modo, 



/3. coxae et trochanters nigri, apice rufi ; femora anteriora rufa, 

 margine supero et infero, anticorum versus basin tantum, nigri- 

 cante ; postica nigra margine infero late rufo ; tibiae rufse, posticae 

 apice fuscas ; calcaria rufa ; tarsi fusci : his praeterea antennae 

 basi piceo rufae, scapo nigro : sed illae diversitates tarn coloris 

 quam puncturae sensim collabuntur. 



Habitat Germaniam, N. ab Ess. — Angliam ; Hiberniam ; in lito- 

 ribus praesertim arenosis non infrequens. 



Adnot. — Microdus punctulator, TV. ab Ess. B. M. VI. 185. Sp. 1. 

 Monogr. 150. Sp. 12 : discrepat, punctura totius abdominis multo 

 densiore, segmentorum post secundum marginibus posticis tantum 

 laevibus nitidis ; aculeo i abdominis longitudine : suspicabar 

 esse meram varietatem sed talem non ipse vidi. 



Art. XIV. — Remarks on the Entomology of Epping and its 

 Vicinity. By Edward Doubleday. 



"What is writ, is writ, 

 Would it were worthier." 



Dear Sir, — The list of Lepidoptera captured in this 

 neighbourhood, and some other parts of the enclosed paper, 

 were drawn out many weeks ago, just at the time when the 

 return of spring, whilst it made me think of preparing for a 

 new campaign, recalled the memory of former adventures. 

 As the sportsman, when the sultry days of August are almost 

 passed, enjoys, by anticipation, the sports of the approaching 

 September — thinks and tells of his excursions in years that are 

 gone by ; so in the spring the entomologist, whilst anxiously 

 looking forward to the time when the first warm days call 

 forth Brepha notha, Echinomyia ursina, and a profusion of 

 bees and other insects, turns back to the events of other days, 

 dwells with pleasure on the captures he has made ; and then, 

 recurring again to the prospects of the future, rejoices in the 

 expectation of similar success, happy in the hope of increasing 

 his own collections, but happier far in the prospect of being 



