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chalk shewed amongst the herbage to find Acontia luctuosa. We 

 noticed a fair number and caught a few. They fiitted a short 

 distance, and then settled down on the herbage or ground. When 

 moving their black and white markings made them difificult to follow 

 with the eye, and when they settled they were equally hard to see. 

 They, indeed, seemed to be protected both by their manner of flight 

 and their habitat. The little grizzled skipper was flying at the same 

 place, and when they chased one another it was not easy to tell them 

 apart, and when they separated you, of course, followed the wrong 

 one ! I succeeded in tracking a specimen down and boxing it, but 

 the best method of capture seemed to be to watch the insect down, 

 and, after the manner of a novice, to bring down the net per- 

 pendicularly over it as it rested. 



In conclusion, I have to thank very heartily Messrs. Young, Richards, 

 Ivirkaldy, Step, Hare, South, F. M. Carr, Crow, Adkin, Browne, 

 ScoUick, and Priske for sending me notes — in some cases extremely 

 interesting ones — and so for enal)ling me to compile this report. 



