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? Colias Ediisa was obtained. Much pleasure was derived from witnessing a case 

 of natural " assembling," in which a splendid ? Bomhyx quercus attracted four $ , 

 all being taken together in one hole on a bank, besides other specimens. Night 

 ■work was difficult on the steep cliffs, but {inter plurima alia) a very dark variation 

 of Agrotis puta came to sugar, and one A. lucernea was attracted by light, the latter 

 was also observed flying in bright sunshine, but the cliffs were not favourable for their 

 capture. Triphcena interjecta was also on the wing in daylight, though only one 

 example was taken. The lovely Pyrausta purpuralis was plentiful, accompanied 

 occasionally by the charming JEnnychia cingulalis. The fine ragwort on the sand 

 hills near Swansea produced Agrotis tritici in abundance, and A. valligera, A. ripce, 

 and Leucania littoralis sparingly. The last named was rather worn. In this early 

 season we were probably i-ather late for it. We heard of A. prcecox being captured, 

 but we were not fortunate enough to meet with it. Two examples of a very pale 

 variety of Hydrwcia nictitans occurred at sugar, very distinct from those found 

 inland. The pretty and delicately marked little Uubolia lineolata was fairly 

 plentiful here, using the dwarf Rosa spinosissima as cover. In Sketty Park, where, 

 by the kindness of Captain Eobertson, we were invited, sugar proved most successful. 

 Amongst many others, the following are noticeable : — Aniphipyra pyramidea, literally 

 in crowds, sometimes twelve to twenty on a tree ; Triphcena fimbria, a few ; Sy- 

 drcecia micacea and H. nictitans; Cosmia trapezina, common, and C. pyralina, not 

 many, and those worn. Captain Robertson on one evening that we were with him 

 took a very perfect Noctiia depuncta, which was new to the district. He also told 

 me that Bomhyx quercus, Agrotis lucernea, and Ennychia cingulalis had not been 

 taken there before.— A. Nash, Standish Vicarage, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire : 

 August, 1893. 



GelecMa celerella : a correction. — In my note on pp. 213-4 of the current 

 volume, I incorrectly wrote, " Gelechia celerella, Doug." instead of " G. celerella, 

 Stn." This mistake appears in one or two printed lists, and is repeated in Mr. 

 South's Synonymic List (1884), which misled me. The fuller reference is G. celer- 

 ella (Doug., MS.), Stn., Sup. Cat., p. 5 (1851) ; Doug., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 New Series, vol. i, pp. 243-4 (1852).— Eustace E. Bankes, The Eectory, Corfe 

 Castle : August 3lst, 1893. 



Chrysomela goettingensis. — Half a dozen Chrysomela goettingensis in four times 

 that number of years is slow work, but this is about all I found, and the species 

 seemed so much wanted that I could not keep these, so one elytron only has been 

 in my collection for years to show what the insect was like. This half dozen I 

 picked up one at a time at long intervals, stray things, in a road or path generally. 

 Whenever I found one I searched well near the spot to try and leai-n how they 

 were to be got ; I swept and searched by night and in the sunshine, but nothing 

 more ever came of it. The other day I was in Eeading, and vaj friend Mr. Hamm 

 mentioned that he had picked up some Chrysomelce, and he turned them out of the 

 bottle for me to see— they were three gosttingensis. Now, three looked like business, 

 so we went the next day and searched the ground closely, and found 28 specimens 

 at the bottom of the grass and plants that afternoon. C. distinguenda climbs up 

 the stems of flowers and dry grasses in the sunshine, haemoptera crawls slowly about 

 in the daytime among the short gi'ass on the chalk downs, lamina is best got after 



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