211 [August, 



VV^ith one exception, the whole of the changes in specific nomen- 

 clature depend upon this preconceived interpretation. In some 

 cases I had practically come to the same opinion as he, without 

 adopting it. In other cases, I cannot accept his conclusions. Ento- 

 mologists interested in these insects will rejoice at the termination of 

 an important faunistic List. On some of the points in Linnean 

 nomenclature there will, I hope, be a tacit agreement to differ. 



Lewishaiii, London : 



20i;A Jayie, 1890. 



The apparent extinction of Aporia crataegi in England. — Yesterday and to-daj 

 I visited all the localities in this neighbourhood where, as previously stated {of. pp. 

 217 — 220, vol. xsiii, of this Mag.), I found A. cratcegi so abundant some 23 years 

 ago. I regret to say that I did not see a single specimen ; considering the wide dis- 

 tribution this species formerly had in this and an adjoining county, and the paucity, 

 if not entire absence, of entomologists, the extinction of the species must be due to 

 natural causes, and cannot be attributable to over-collecting. The local peasants 

 appear altogether unacquainted with " fly-catchers," and asserted that my net was 

 for "landing big fish." I saw only one specimen of Callimorpha dominul a in a, 

 locality where it formerly was very common. — H. Goss, Tintern, Monmouthshire : 

 June 28th, 1890. 



Lycana Avion on the Cuttswolds. — I am pleased to be able to report that L. 

 Arion is not, as I feai-ed, extinct on the Cottswold Hills. Yesterday, in one of the 

 localities where I caught Arion in 1877, I took three specimens, all males ; of these 

 one was worn, and two had apparently recently emerged from the chrysalis. On 

 visiting a second locality, some four miles from the one last mentioned, I was dis- 

 appointed at not finding a specimen. To-day I have succeeded in taking two <? 

 specimens, both fresh, in a new locality, some two or three miles distant from either 

 of the former ones. As the species seems to be widely distributed on these hills, 

 there does not appear to be much chance at present of its extermination by collecting. 

 In addition to L. Arion, the following species, amongst others, occurred more or less 

 plentifully in or near its localities, viz. : — Argynnis Aglaia, $ , Lyccena Icarus and 

 L. Agestis, Nemeophila plantaginis, Acidalia ornata, Asthena Blomeri, Timandra 

 amataria, Abraxas ulmata, and Eupithecia lariciata. — Id., Upton St. Leonards, 

 Grloucestershire : June 25th, 1890. 



Eupithecia dodoneata at Armagh. — On the evening of May 12th, I took a 

 specimen of this moth in tlic Mullinures. There are no oaks in the vicinity, but 

 quantities of hawthorn. ^ — W. F. Johnson, Winder Terrace, Armagh : t/une 9<A, 1890. 



[About two years ago, Mr. N. M. Richardson found Eupithecia dodoneata not 

 uncommonly frequenting a tall hawthorn hedge, which bounded a lane where no oak 

 grew ; and, curiously enough, iu the very same spi'ing, a kind friend at Lynn, who 



