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Second and third broods abundant, var. ccerulea frequent. Females 

 of last brood often very dark. Gupido minimus, emerged May 12th. 

 Plentiful in many places ; a partial second brood in August. 

 Celastrina argiolus, very scarce in the spring, and by no means 

 common in July and August. Agriades corydon, emerged about 

 July 20th. Not so plentiful as might have been expected this 

 summer; females mostly typical. Nemeobius htcina, very local. — 

 S. B. Hodgson ; 3, Bassett Eoad, North Kensington, W. 



Lepidopteea Taken or Bred from Larv^ and Pup#3 found in 

 the Garden at 3, Little Dean's Yard, Westminster. — Said 

 garden measures about 84 feet by 36 feet. Ehopalocera: Pieris 

 brassicce, Pieris- rapce. Heterocera: Dilina (Mimas) Mice, Phalera 

 bucephala, Orgyia antiqua, Spilosoma menthastri, Spilosoma lubrici- 

 peda, Acronycta psi, Noctua primula, Axylia putris, Triphcena 

 (Agrotis) comes, Triphcena (Agrotis) pronuba, Barathra brassicce, 

 Mamestra oleracea, Euplexia lucipara, Phlogophora meticulosa, 

 Mormo maura, Ncenia typica, Garadrina taraxaci, Caradrina 

 quadripunctata, Amphipyra pyramidea, Calymnia affinis, Amathes 

 (Orthosia) lota, Plusia gamma, Abrostola triplasia. Xanthorhoe 

 Uuctnata, Eupithecia oblongata, Eupithecia vulgata, Abraxas grossu- 

 lariata, Ennomos quercinaria, Selenia bihmaria, var. juliaria, Oura- 

 pteryx sambucaria, Hybernia defoliaria, Lycia hirtaria, Hemerophila 

 (Synopsia) abruptaria, Boarmia rhomboidaria. — (Bev.) A. G. S. 

 Baynor, 3, Little Dean's Yard, Westminster. 



A Fortnight in Carnarvonshire. — We — that is, my friend 

 Mr. E. D. Bostock and myself — started on September 1st for a 

 fortnight's pursuit of Lepidoptera at Abersoch, a village on the coast 

 seven miles west of Pwllheli. The first object of our expedition was 

 to search for the larvae of Bianthcecia barrettii, the imago of which I 

 had taken there in 1897 and 1899 ('Entom.,' vols, xxx and xxxii), but 

 though we examined hundreds of plants of Silene maritima not a 

 trace of the larva could we find. During the first week the weather 

 was warm and sunny, and butterflies were numerous. Pieris brassicce 

 and P. rapce were common, and Pyrameis atalanta abundant on the 

 purple flowers of a large species of Veronica. P. cardui also was 

 fairly common, but seemed to prefer the flowers of heather to the 

 Veronica, though it visited both. Vanessa urticce in fair numbers 

 was in good condition, possibly a third brood. Worn specimens of 

 the second brood of Lyccena icarus were numerous on the sandhills, 

 where were also many Gcenonympha pamphilus, some in quite fresh 

 condition, and a third brood of Ghrysophanus phlceas was beginning 

 to appear. Eive specimens of Golias edusa were seen, but their flight 

 was too rapid for capture. On the sandhills at Port Nigel, which 

 we visited one day, we found a few specimens in fair condition of a 

 second brood of Brenthis selene, and saw a worn female of Argynnis 

 aglaia. On the sandhills at Abersoch there were a few wooden posts 

 still standing, the remains of what had once been a fence enclosing 

 a large square. On these we put sugar every night, and to it moths 

 came freely. The most abundant visitors were Agrotis vestigialis, 

 Noctua xanthographa and Phlogophora meticulosa, and in smaller 

 numbers were Agrotis segetum, A. exclamationis and A. upsilon, 



