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Vanessa io, Burwell Fen, April 27th, one specimen. V. urticce, Burwell 

 Fen, April 27th ; Isle of Portland, May 1st ; Araersham, June (hybernated). 

 V. atalanta, one fine specimen, Windsor, May. MelUtea urteniis, banks of 

 Frome, Wareham, May 5th; four specimens taken, others seen, but out of 

 reach, as the low-lying meadows are intersected by dykes. Argynnis 

 euphrosijne, four specimens taken, Northwood, fairly common by side of 

 wood there, middle of May. Syriclithus malvcB, one specimen, Northwood, 

 June. I do not know whether the scarcity of G. rliamni and A. cardamines 

 is a matter of general observation, or I have not happened to be in the 

 right locality, but many years have elapsed since I saw either species in 

 abundance. As regards A. euphrosyne, Middlesex is not recorded in 

 Newman's ' British Butterflies ' as one of the counties where it occurs, but 

 I took it and M. artemis at my native place, Southgate, many years since. 

 Newman mentions the latter species as occurring at Kingsbury, on F. Bond's 

 authority. It is likely enough that both species may long ago have disap- 

 peared from Southgate, and therefore Middlesex is not given. But as 

 A. euphrosyne is found at Northwood that home county may now be added, 

 as regards that species, at any rate. Neuroptera : — Libellula depressa, ponds 

 round Northwood and at Kingsbury, May and June ; males very abundant 

 this season, and, in comparison of females, in proportion of six to one. 

 Caleptetyx ludoviciana, osier beds by Thames, a short distance from 

 Victoria Bridge, Windsor, May ; males, in comparision of females, in 

 proportion of three to one. — (Rev.) F. A. Walkeb ; June 7, 1893. 



In February I found Hybernia leucoph(Earia extremely abundant in 

 Surrey, and took some fine varieties. On April 21st I saw Pieris rap(Z in 

 the Embankment Gardens at Charing Cross, and on June 13th took 

 Ayrotis exclamationis in the Burlington Arcade. When in the New Forest, 

 in May, I found a larva of Catocala promissa stretched at full length on a 

 dead leaf on the ground, and my wife detected one on an oak tree, among 

 the lichen, which the larva greatly resembles. These larvae spun up about 

 the 18th May, and produced two fine imagines on June 21st, a very early 

 date, I think. — Alfred Sigh; Villa Amalinda, Burlington Lane, 

 Chiswick, July 11, 1893. 



Plusia moneta. — I have been so fortunate as to breed thirty-three 

 examples of this beautiful species during the past two months, from larvae 

 found in May, and hope to send you an account of them shortly. — 

 Gervase F. Mathew; H.M.S. ' Mersey,' Milford Haven, July 14, 1893. 



Plusia moneta in Hants. — On the evening of June 18th my son took 

 a Phisia new to me, flying at dusk, near some reeds at the bottom of our 

 garden here. It has since then been identified as P. moneta by my friends 

 Messrs. J. M. Adye and MacRae, of Bournemouth. — R. E. Brameld ; 

 Mudeford, Christchurch, July 7, 1893. 



Rhopaloceba at Wiesbaden. — To-day a friend of mine took a fine 

 female specimen of Pieris daplidice in a meadow by Wiesbaden ; also a 

 male Limenitis populi was taken. Neither of these are mentioned, in " The 

 Rhopalocera at Wiesbaden," in the ' Entomologist,' vol. xxii. p. 88, &c. We 

 have already taken more than forty different sorts of butterflies this year.— 

 M. P. Smith ; 10, Bachmeyer Strasse, Wiesbaden, May 22, 1893. 



Vanessa atalanta near Manchester. — Vanessa atalanta has re- 

 appeared this spring, and larvae are quite common. This, I think, is an 

 extraordinary occurrence. We are only five miles from the centre of 

 Manchester. — J. Renshaw ; Ash House, Stratford, June 27, 1893. 



