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Lancashire. — During a stay at Blackpool I captured the following : — 

 Pieris rapm, P. napi, Polyommatus phlmas, Vanessa urtlcce, several in fair 

 condition. Nyssia zonaria, abundant on April 22nd ; Rumia cratcEgata, on 

 28th. Melanippe montanata and M. flucluata, on May 5th ; Anticlea 

 hadiata and Hypslpetes implnviata were captured by my brother on May 1st; 

 Plusia gamvia, one on the sand-hills on May 6th Euchelia jacobcecB, very 

 common on the sand-hills, and in very good condition, on April 25th. 

 Arctia menthastri, two freshly emerged, on May 3rd. Since I have come 

 home, my brother has taken Mamestra brassicm on May 9 th; and I took 

 Hadena oleracea, at sugar, on the 8th. — S. Stones ; Northwood, Seymour 

 Grove, Old Trafford, near Manchester, May 10, 1893. 



Monmouthshire. — On April 25th, Argynnis euphrasy ne was common in 

 open spots at VVentwood ; I picked up a freshly-emerged specimen of 

 Melitcea aurinia (artemis), and saw another on the wing on April 30th. 

 May 8th, I took A. selene with A. euphrasy ne, Thecla ruhi, and worn 

 examples of Lycmia argioliis, at the foot of the Twm Barlwyn mountain. — 

 J. E. Knights; 3, Mount Joy Street, Newport, Mon. 



Radnorshire. — Several species have put in an extremely early appear- 

 ance in the Wye Valley. In an average year, I notice the dates given in 

 Newman are, as a rule, quite a month or three weeks too early for this 

 neighbourhood, which is a late one ; but this season I have already taken 

 Arctia menthastri, Eupithecia vulgata, Gidaria immanata [? iruncata 

 [russata), Ed.], Caremia propngnata, Melanippe flucluata, and Anaitis 

 plagiata. And among the butterflies, I took, on April 22nd, Nisoniades 

 tages and Lyccsna argiolus. But the great feature of the season, so far, has 

 been the extreme abundance of Argynnis eup)hrosyne. Generally speaking, 

 this insect is by no means common in this neighbourhood, although it 

 appears sparingly in the woods every season. This season, however, it 

 fairly swarms in the gardens, road-sides, and everywhere. I noticed the 

 first two on April 12th, since which time I could have taken hundreds if 

 I had wanted them. They seem all to be in the most perfect condition, 

 and look as if they had just emerged from the chrysalis. — J. W. Vaughan, 

 Jun. ; The Skreen, Erwood, R.S.O., Radnorshire. 



Surrey. — I noticed, during the second and third weeks in April, a very 

 considerable number of insects due at least a month hence. The following 

 is a list of those I have observed more especially : — April 14th, two 

 Argynnis euphrosyne ; 15th, Pieris &rass(C'« (quite fresh) ; 16th, Euchlo'e 

 cardamines ; 17th, three skippers all together, viz., Syrichthus malvm, 

 Nisoniades tages, Hesperia sylvanus ; 18th, Thecla ruhi, in more or less 

 abundance, among which were to be seen a few S^rcma clathrata ; 19th, 

 E. cardamines, abundant ; and in the evening I netted numbers of Coremia 

 unidentaria and C. ferrugata, and might have been equally well employed 

 in catching Rumia cratcegata, had I been so disposed. I do not know if it 

 is a recognised fact, or a suggestion of my own, but it struck me very forcibly 

 the other day on seeing Syrichthus malvce and Strenia clathrata together on 

 the railway bank, that the one mimicked the other; I mean clathrata 

 mimicked malvce. If anyone could give any information as to this, I 

 should be very glad. — W. J. Kaye ; The Court, Worcester Park, Surrey, 

 April 20, 1893. 



As evidence of the extreme forwardness of the season, the following list 

 of butterflies, taken by me at Woking this morning, may interest your 

 readers: — Pieris brassicce (common), P. rapcB (common), P. napi (common), 

 Euchlo'e cardamines (two), Pararge megcera (several), Ccenonyinpha pam- 



