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lepidopterists, and might be considered as an exchange for 

 Pieris rapce, which North America probably received from us 

 as an importation during late years. This latter insect, by the 

 way, has already developed a climatic race in the New World. 



Callimorpha hera has been again taken in the south of 

 England by Mr. Jager, who captured a specimen and saw 

 another on the 24th of August this year. This specimen was 

 brought up to our Exhibition by Mr. Jager. It has yellow 

 hind wings, and is the var. lutescens of Staudinger. Mr. 

 Brooks, who it may be remembered has been very successful 

 with this species during three successive seasons, and is also 

 the fortunate possessor of Cticullia artemisice, was good 

 enough to point out the lucky hedgerow to Mr. Jager. 



One specimen of Callimorpha hera is recorded by Mr. H. 

 D'Orville, as taken near Exeter on August 14th, 1871 {Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. viii. 87). Appended to this note is an editorial, 

 stating that several other well-authenticated cases of the 

 occurrence of C. hera in the south-west of England had 

 occurred during the previous ten years, and asking Entomo- 

 logists who had knowledge of such captures to give an account 

 of the circumstances. I do not find that this request elicited 

 any information on the subject, but I believe there are records 

 extant of a specimen taken at Newhaven in 1855, and another 

 near Brighton in 1868 ; and at some time before the earliest 

 of these dates, Captain Russell captured several in Wales. 



Tn the Entomologist for December last (vol. xviii. 318), Mr. 

 Joseph Potter records the capture of a specimen of Catocala 

 fraxini in Hyde Park, on the 9th of September. He states 

 that it was at rest in a sycamore, thirty feet from the ground, 

 and that it had been seen two hours previously on an ash tree. 

 Mr. Potter adds, " I have no doubt it emerged from the pupa 

 in the immediate locality ; it had apparently not flown far." 

 Just fifteen years ago, that is in 1870, Mr. Potter recorded a 

 specimen as taken by a friend of his, at rest on an ash tree 

 in Regent's Park, also on the 9th of September {Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. vii, m). 



In 1874, Mr. Charles Oldham took a worn specimen at 

 Folkestone, on September 5th, and Parry of Canterbury says 

 he took one "almost equal to bred" in Pine Wood, Kent, 



