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loose again. I see Mr. Birchall only records this species as Irish from Wicklow. 

 L. marginata, C. ferrugata, C. suffumata, P. gamma — 1 each. 



The only other species seen during my stay at Castle Connell were, M. 

 subtristata, at Glenenomeragh ; 8. popuVi, in pupa ; 0. bidentata, one pupa, since 

 emerged ; B. querc&s or callunce, still in pupa, and two other pupaa I do not recog- 

 nise, and from which the imagos have not yet emerged. In the woods, too, I saw 

 a few micros, but my indifferent eyesight quite precludes my attempting the 

 capture of these beautiful atoms. — Herbert Marsden, Secretary, Lepidopterisfcs' 

 Exchange Club, Gloucester, May 11th, 1869. 



Great abundance of Vanessa cardui in 1868, fyc. — Observing Mr. Bax's note on 

 this subject, it occurs to me that some of your readers may be interested in one or 

 two jottings of a similar kind. 



I spent the month of August last at the delightful little watering-place of 

 Bournemouth, Hants. Eambling one morning along the beach westward towards 

 Poole, I was astonished to find V. cardui, in abundance, flying about in the hot 

 sunshine, over a district covered with hills of blown sand, just adjoining Pooie 

 harbour. It would have been a comparatively easy task to capture fifty of these 

 insects, most of them in fine condition ; but being merely a collector and not a 

 slaughterer, I took only the few that I required. I saw scarcely any other species 

 of Lepidoptera at the same place and time ; but Msgara, Tithonus, and Semele were 

 very abundant in the neighbourhood of Bournemouth. 



The locality is also rich in Libellulidce. — W. H. Groser, Vernon Cottage, 

 Thornhill Road, N. 



Note on the paucity of insects. — I am afraid we are to have a poor season ; we 

 have as yet found everything very scarce ; even the commoner species have not 

 " put in " at all in many cases. A friend and I were out last night for a walk in 

 the rain, and found two dead swallows on the road. I opened one, and found 

 scarcely a trace of food in it ; shewing how scarce insects must be. I have no doubt 

 many birds which depend upon them are dead. — T. J. Carrington, Melbourne 

 Terrace, York. 



Deilephila lineata at Lewes — Yesterday morning I saw on the setting-board of 

 a friend of mine in this town, two D. lineata (livornica), which had been brought 

 to him within the last few days. One was caught in a greenhouse, and the other 

 I believe, among trefoil or lucerne which was being thrown into a hay-loft. Their 

 condition is fair, but not first-rate, and I think they are evidently hybernated. 



Not having heard of this rare species being taken so early in the year before, 

 I thought perhaps it might be worthy of a note in the Ent. Mo. Magazine. — J. H. A. 

 Jenner, Lewes, May 27th, 1869. 



Note on the black variety of Amphidasis betularia. — Last autumn, at the usual 

 time, I found a very pale larva of A. betularia ; it was almost fawn-coloured. On 

 the 25th inst. it produced a fine female of the dark variety, known as carbonaria. 

 This is passing strange — the larva wanting pigment, the moth having more than 

 enough. — R. C. R. Jordan, Edgbaston, Birmingham, 28th May, 1869. 



