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Notes fbom Sidmouth. — I was pleased when at Weston Beach, 

 near Sidmouth, on August 4th last to see a few examples of that 

 now very local butterfly Paranje egeria. Golias edusa was there, too, 

 but not in any numbers. Adopaa actceon occurred, but not at all 

 freely, as can be judged from the fact that it took me two hours to 

 get a dozen specimens, all of which were males, for the most part 

 in only fair condition. Pyrausta jninicealis was common amongst 

 the thyme near the base of the cliffs.— F. G. Whittle ; 7, Marine 

 Avenue, Southend, September 7th, 1909. 



Abraxas grossulaeiata ab. lacticolor. — On July 29th I took 

 a perfect specimen of A. grossnlariata ab. lacticolor Eaynor, as figured 

 on plate 104 in ' Moths of the British Isles ' (second series), and I 

 thought this occurrence might be sufficiently interesting to report. — 

 P. H. Harvey ; 9, Church Street, Warwick, August 27th, 1909. 



Early Appearance of Triph^na pronuba. — Whilst sugaring 

 on the 24th of April of this year for a female viunda, although already 

 rather late for that insect, I boxed a freshly emerged example of 

 T. pronuha. Is not this an exceptionally early date for this species '? 

 Probably the mild spell in February may account for their early 

 emergence. — E. T. Baumann ; " Glendale," 70, Station Eoad, Ching- 

 ford, Essex. 



Abundance op Vanessa io. — The sudden appearance of Vanessa 

 io in such numbers as it is at the present time is, I think, worthy of 

 record after so many years of comparative scarcity. In South-east 

 Essex it is in greater abundance than I have seen it since the 

 " seventies." I hear it is very common in many places, and it would 

 be interesting to learn if it is equally abundant throughout the 

 country. — F. W. Frohawk. 



Vanessa antiopa in Kent. — Mr. Siegfried Sassoon captured a 

 specimen of V. antiopa on September 3rd last behind a blind of a 

 skylight in his house at Paddock Wood, Kent. It is in fair condition, 

 with cream-coloured margins ; the blue submarginal spots are smaller 

 than usual.— F. W. F. 



Note on Nonagria geminipuncta. — While working for pupae of 

 this species at Lewes on the 31st July last, I cut one reed con- 

 taining no fewer than nine pupae. It is by no means uncommon to 

 find two or three on one reed, but so large a number as nine is 

 certainly more or less of a record. Can any of your correspondents 

 go one better ? — Hugh J. Vinall ; Torbay, Park Eoad, Lewes. 



Spilosoma lubricipeda var. zatima in Warwickshire. — About 

 the middle of June last I had the good fortune to take, in the town 

 street, a very nice specimen of the zatima form of S. lubricipeda. It 

 was kept alive for a day or two in the hope of finding a typical female 

 and so obtain a pairing if possible. In this, however, I was not 

 successful. — C. Baker; 25, Long Street, Atherstone. 



Daphnis nerii in Devonshire. — It may be of interest to record 

 that a specimen of Daphnis nerii was caught at Ilfracombe on 

 September 22nd. It was sitting on a fig-leaf in a garden there. 

 When brouglit to me it was a little rubbed on thorax, and had one of 



