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Hesperia lineola. — In the report of Proceedings of the South London 

 Natural History and Entomological Society (Entom. 296), " Mr. Tugwell 

 expressed an opinion that this species occurred on the salt-marshes, and 

 that those taken on the hills had been blown there." This is only a bare 

 idea without proof. What I did say was, that I had made two excursions 

 to Leigh for Hesperia lineola. My first captures there I had carefully 

 examined, and found all to be lineola, and then, working on to Hadleigh, I 

 had boxed all the Hesperia, thinking them to be lineola, but on reaching 

 home I found 75 per cent were thaumas. On my second visit I commenced 

 collecting at the same spot, and found nearly all my captures on the lower 

 ground were lineola. I then met Mr. Turner, and he had been nearer the 

 marsh than myself; he had secured some thirty specimens of lineola; 

 together we worked over the ground to Hadleigh, and found thaumas 

 much more common than lineola. We then struck out into the marshes 

 below ; there we secured a long series of lineola, but not a single thaumas 

 amongst them. This indicates pretty clearly that its habitat was the 

 marshes, and not the higher ground. — W. H. Tugwell. 



Sirex gigas in Devon. — On the 5th inst. I captured a specimen of 

 the above insect, making the third I have taken here. They seem to vary 

 considerably in size. No. 1, length to point, If in.: expanse of wings, 

 2£ in. No. 2, length to point, 1-| in. ; expanse of wings, 2J in. No. 3, 

 length to point, 1 in. ; expanse of wings, 1^- in. — John N. Still ; Lang- 

 stone, Horrabridge. 



Macro-Lepidoptera in the New Forest. — Your correspondent. Mr. 

 E. G. Alderson, has given such a melancholy account of the Lepidoptera 

 to be met with in the New Forest this season (Entom. 258), that I should 

 like to record my experiences of the collecting there. I took up my quarters 

 at Brockenhurst on the 28th of June, and stayed there until the 17th 

 of July. The weather was not at all propitious for collecting, being storu^, 

 with very few bright sunny days. The following were the most noteworthy 

 Macro-Lepidoptera that I met with : — Gonepteryx r7iflmra,"iybernated spe- 

 cimens ; Argynnis selene, fairly numerous ; A. aglaia, abundanT'in one 

 locality ; A. adippe, scarce ; A. paphia, males abundant before July 17th, 

 but females scarce even then,, consequently the variety valesina was very 

 rare ; Limenitis sibylla, fairly numerous in certain localities, but very much 

 damaged by the stormy weather, — it was very seldom one could net a perfect 

 specimen ; Pararge egeria, very abundant ; Satyrus semele, a few specimens 

 seen on July 16th ; Epinephele ianira,\erj abundant, a few " bleached " 

 forms taken ; E. hyperanthes, abundant ; Lycmia agon, very abundant on 

 certain heaths ; Syrichthus mahce, a few specimens noticed, but these were 

 somewhat passe; Hesperia thaumas, abundant in certain places by about 

 July 13th ; H. sylvanus, very abundant ; Zygana meliloti, I saw several 

 specimens, taken by the local collectors ; Z. trifolii and Z. filipen&ula, 

 both plentiful ; Calligenia miniata, not uncommon ; Lithosia mesomella, a 

 few specimens taken ; Gnophria rubricollis, I saw specimens recently taken, 

 but did not meet with this species myself; Emydia cribrum, taken in large 

 numbers by the local collectors this season ; Euchelia jacobace, both imagines 

 and larvae common ; Nemeophila russula, common ; Arctia caia, common; 

 Hepialus hectus, common ; Bombyx quercus, larvae taken on heath ; Thyatira 

 baiis, fairly common ; Moma orion, I saw one specimen which had been 

 taken at rest by a brother collector ; Acronycta psi, very abundant ; Leu- 



