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month there was a very heavy thunderstorm, accompanied with hail, which 

 had the effect of beating a great number of larvae from the trees, — some 

 never to get up again : this was plainly evident in the case of T. w-album, 

 for when we worked the elms, on several occasions in vain, a few pupa? only 

 were taken from the low bushes and ground herbage later on. During June 

 sugaring was persistently carried on two and three times weekly, with 

 results almost nil; from the 9th of the month to well into July no rain 

 fell ; the nights were remarkably still with heavy dew ; no insects came to 

 sugar, although plenty were flying ; the low bushes and ground herbage 

 were covered with a sweet sticky substance, which proved a successful 

 counter attraction to our sweets. Larva beating was usually carried on 

 after the sugaring, commencing just before daybreak, and, to make up for 

 disappointment in the matter of imagos, larvae were fairly plentiful, — that 

 of C. flavicornis, though difficult to beat during the daytime, now comes 

 down quite easily ; in addition to that insect B. parthenias was plentiful ; a 

 few G . papilionaria ; also P.populi, N, hispidaria, and G. paleacea (fulvago). 

 Both these last are new to the district, the latter especially so, as I am 

 assured by an eminent Yorkshire entomologist that before it turned up here 

 in 1888 only two specimens are recorded for this county. The larva of D. 

 bifida has not shown up at all, and I only saw two or three of N. dictcea, 

 N. dictceoides, and AT. dromedarius. N. ziczac was fairly plentiful ; but the 

 pretty little L. halterata, usually abundant most years, has been exceedingly 

 scarce. — John N. Young ; 85, Fitzwilliam Road, Rotherham. 



Monmouthshire. — At the beginning of August, 1889, Argynnis paphia 

 was extremely abundant along the banks of the Wye ; there were literally 

 thousands to be seen in the course of a walk, in splendid condition. A. 

 adippe was also present, though not in the same abundance as A. paphia; 

 but I did not see any specimens of A. aylaia. I took several of Vanessa 

 c-album in fine condition. I also took two specimens of Thecla w-album, 

 and saw others. There were a few Thecla quercus about, though these were 

 not by any means plentiful. Several of the commoner butterflies were 

 conspicuously absent : thus I saw none of the genus Lyccena, and no 

 Hesperidae. The only moth I captured was a solitary specimen of Angerona 

 prunaria. I saw great numbers of larvae of Euchelia jacobcea on the 

 ragwort, and succeeded in rearing some of them. I found also many troops 

 of young larvae of Bombyx quercus: they were nearly all attacked by a 

 kind of slug, owing probably to the wet summer. The most abundant 

 insects in the locality were certainly Argynnis paphia and A. adippe. I 

 noticed that all the Lepidoptera seemed much attracted to the banks of the 

 river. — Gr. L. Patten. 



Colias edusa in 1889 : Additional Record — Yorkshire. — I saw 

 on the 5th Sept., 1889, a fine male specimen, whilst driving near to Bishop 

 Wood, on the Selby and York road. — Samuel Walker; 75, Union 

 Terrace, York, January 4, 1890. 



Acheronita atropos in 1889: an Additional Record— Somerset- 

 shire. — To the list in the ' Entomologist ' of localities in which Ache- 

 rontia atropos appeared last season, I can add Clevedon, Somersetshire. 

 Several larvae and pupae having been found, a friend, — a very careful col- 

 lector, — was successful in rearing many imagines. All his pupae were 

 placed on the top of earth covered with a thick layer of moss, which 

 was kept very damp. The box with the pupae was placed against a 



