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One night, when sugaring at the side of a small wood close to the road, one of 

 my boys netted a specimen of Toxocampa pastinum. I only mention this because 

 the species was quite new to this district, and appears to be exceedingly scarce in 

 Norfolk. — Chas. Q-. Baebett, King's Lynn, Norfolk : March, 1889. 



Some Micro- Lepidoptera of Norfolk. — I made two or three attempts last 

 summer to work the chalk district around Swaffham, but with very small results — 

 which were, perhaps, attributable to the constantly cold winds — but on one of these 

 occasions, I swept up from the short grass of an open field, where it was sheltered 

 by beech trees, a specimen of the very rare and beautiful Asychna ceratella. Long 

 and careful sweeping on this and other days, although no ceratella appeared, supplied 

 a nice lot of Gelechia artemisiella, JButalis fusco-cuprea, and Mimmsioptilus bipuncti- 

 dactylus, var. plagiodactylas, and one Argyrolepia subbaumanniana. Nothing could 

 be found except where there was some shelter from the bitter wind, but the district 

 looks good. Among beeches Tinea semifulvella occurred with Carpocapsa grossana 

 and TLurymene dolabraria. 



Another evening, in a very different locality, a small piece of isolated fen, when 

 musing upon the contrary nature of things in general — just then exemplified by the 

 undesirable abundance of blood-thirsty JDiptera, the equally objectionable scarcity 

 of good Lepidoptera, and the fact that those which did occur flew with one accord 

 into my companion's net ! — I caught sight of a tiny moth flying over my head, 

 which, when secured, proved to be Gelechia lathyri, a species which, although 

 common at Wicken and at Merton, is quite new to this district and recorded from 

 very few other localities. 



On another occasion, while working the coast sandhills, I secured a single 

 specimen of Gelechia vicinella, flying swiftly over the sand and looking much more 

 conspicuous than the ordinary species — desertella, senectella, and marmorea. This 

 also is excessively local, and, apparently, very scarce. A specimen taken on the 

 Suffolk coast in the previous summer is the only other which has came under my 

 notice for many years. — Id. 



Variety of Thecla rtibi. — On June 13th, 1888, 1 had the good fortune to capture 

 at Studland, near Swanage, a specimen of the " green hairstreak " in which all the 

 outer portion (amounting to nearly one-half) of the fore-wings is curiously bleached ; 

 and this bleaching extends also to the hind-wings, though not in quite so marked a 

 degree, as it does not affect an equally broad portion of the wing. 



Judging from the captures made in this county last season, it seems as though 

 the cold and wet summer was particularly productive of remarkable varieties, some 

 inclining to melanism, whilst others showed a tendency towards the opposite ex- 

 treme. — Eustace R. Bankes, The Rectory, Corfe Castle, Dorset : April 6th, 1889. 



Malformation in Hyponomeuta cognatella. — A strangely malformed individual 

 of this species emerged in one of my breeding jars in July of last year. The right 

 fore-wing is of the usual size, and measures 6 lines, but the left fore-wing, although 

 perfectly developed, is only about 4* lines long, and does not exceed the length of 

 the left hind-wing, which is more nearly of the normal size. — Id. 



