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ship at Liverpool was exhibited. 1904 : one specimen was captured 

 as it rested on a bathing-machine at Eastbourne, July 14th. Earlier 

 records will be found, Entom. xxiv. pp. 195, 221. The finding of two 

 larvae of this species at Eastbourne in October, 1859, was reported in 

 the ' Entomologists' Weekly Intelligencer,' vol. xii. p. 140. These 

 died, and one is led to suspect, from the particulars given, that the 

 larvae were probably those of S. convolvuli, which species was fairly 

 common in England in 1859, and its larva was recorded from Devon- 

 shire in October of that year. — Ed.] 



Lestes dryas, Kirb., in Ireland. — Mr. H. M. Edelsten informs me 

 that he has had specimens of this somewhat rare British dragonfly 

 sent him from Ireland. They came from Caragh Lake, Co. Kerry, and 

 were taken early in September, 1906. The only other Irish record 

 seems to be that of the capture of a specimen near Athlone in 1894, 

 by Mr. J. J. F. X. King.— W. J. Lucas. 



Plusia moneta in Northamptonshire. — In my note on P. moneta 

 (ante, p, 40) the county should be Northamptonshire, not Nottingham- 

 shire. — F. J. Rasell ; Theedon Eoad, Northampton. 



A Fortnight in Cumberland. — In July, 1906, my friend Mr. A. E. 

 Gibbs, of St. Alban's, very kindly asked me to spend my fortnight's holi- 

 day at St. Bees, Cumberland, where he had taken a house for part of the 

 summer. Unfortunately it was unsettled and wet most of the time, so 

 that we were unable to do as much with the butterflies as we could have 

 wished. Although we kept a sharp look-out around St. Bees, and also 

 in Eskdale (which we visited several times) and in Wastdale, for the 

 Erebias and Ccenonympha davits, we did not see a specimen of either. 

 Satyrus semele was fairly common on St. Bees Head, and along the coast 

 towards Nethertown. The majority of the specimens are of the dark 

 "heath" form, but the males vary inter se in the amount of tawny 

 colour on the upper side of the hind wings. I have one male which 

 has three spots on the upper side of the fore wings, the extra ones 

 being unocellated and just below the normal lower spot, and there is 

 an extra dot on the right fore wing just above the lower normal spot. 

 We also took several females which have extra spots between the 

 normal ones. The females of Lycmna icarus have the orange spots well 

 developed both on the upper and under sides, and are slightly suffused 

 with blue on the upper side. Nearly every evening we indulged in 

 sugaring in a lane running past the house down to the shore, where 

 there were many convenient posts. The best species taken were 

 Mamestra furva and Noctua umbrosa, the former of which we secured 

 in some number, but the majority were worn. Xylophasia lithoxylea 

 and A', monoglypha swarmed, and the latter varied to a remarkable 

 degree — from the colour of the darkest brown velvet, practically black, 

 through intermediate forms to the type. One of the lighter forms is 

 particularly beautiful, being of a mottled appearance with an almost 

 white patch on the inner margin of the fore wings, and a very dark 

 area in the middle of the wiug just below the discoidal spots. Several 

 other species varied towards darker forms, viz., Leucania conigera, 

 L. lithargyria, Axylia putris, and Hadena dentina, and Mr. Gibbs 

 obtained a nice female of Agrotis exclamationis, which is very dark and 

 has the markings coalesced into an irregular patch. One or two even- 



