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Lincoln, Aug. 3rd, the other near Market Rasen, on the 12th of the same 

 month. At sugar, on the night of Aug. 12th, I had the pleasure of taking 

 a pair of Aplecta occulta for the first time in this locality. — W. Lewington ; 

 Market Rasen. 



Parnassius APOLLO IN THE PYRENEES. — I am finding this handsome 

 butterfly here in abundance, both on the French and the Spanish sides of 

 the range. It occurs between the altitudes of 2000 and 6000 feet, which 

 thus approximates very closely with its vertical distribution in the Alps, 

 allowance being made for the difference of latitude. — W. Harcourt-Bath ; 

 St. Sauveur, Hautes-Pyrenees, July, 1896. 



Aberrations of Argynnis paphia and Limenitis sibylla. — From 

 June 29th to July 10th my brother and myself were collecting in the New 

 Forest, and during that time we captured and saw most of the species 

 mentioned by Mr. Nash [ante, p. 261). Among the A. paphia we took 

 was an interesting variety of the male, in which the spots are confluent, 

 forming a broad bar on fore and hind wings. We heard of several (about 

 six) dark varieties of L. sibylla being taken. One male example of Boarmia 

 abietaria was also secured, and a female specimen of Lasiocampa quercifolia 

 was given to me by a boy, who had found it just emerged from the 

 chrysalis. — F. L. Blathwayt ; Bromyard, Aug. 4th, 1896. 



Abundance of Chcerocampa porcellus. — Referring to the note by 

 Mr. C. J. Nash on C. porcellus [ante, p. 264), I may say that the species 

 has been most abundant here. On four nights I took on honeysuckle and 

 valerian some fifty specimens, though not more than one-tenth were 

 sufficiently good to kill. I generally get two to four specimens in the year, 

 but this year I have no doubt if I had tried I could have netted two 

 hundred easily, but I did not bother to take them when I found them so 

 worn. The honeysuckle was not sufiQciently out to visit till June 4th, 

 when the majority of some fifteen specimens boxed were useless. I may 

 add that I found two larvae of this species, three-parts fed, on Galium 

 verum, on the night of June 21st. — W. B. Thornhill ; Castle Cosey, 

 Castle BelHngham, Ireland, July 30th, 1896. 



Notes from North Wales. — During a three weeks' visit to N. Wales, 

 at the end of May and beginning of June, I found insects unusually plen- 

 tiful. More than 160 different species of Macro-Lepidoptera were met with, 

 although " sugaring," except at the sandhills, was very unproductive. The 

 following are some of the species noticed : — Pieris brassicce, P. rapcB, 

 P. napi, all abundant. — Euchloe cardamines, plentiful. — Argynnis selene, 

 plentiful at Tan-y-bwlch, Merionethshire, by May 30th. — A. euphrosyne, 

 worn. May 24th. — A. aglaia, A. adippe, just beginning to appear at 

 Barmouth, June 12th. — Melitaa aurinia, abundant in several localities 

 near Tan-y-bwlch and Barmouth, quite fresh, May 26th ; of about seventy 

 specimens taken that day only two were females. — V. urticce, V. io, larvse 

 of the former species very abundant; the first of a batch of larvae of the 

 latter taken at 13armouth pupated June 14th, and the first imago appeared 

 July 9th. — Para7ge egeria, a few taken at Barmouth. — P. megara, very 

 abundant. — Satyrus semele, just beginning to appear June 7th. — Epine- 

 phele ianira, plentiful. — Ccenonymplia typhon, June 6th, abundant on a 

 large bog near Tan-y-bwlch ; the form I took is similar to typhon from the 

 South of Scotland and from Ireland. — C. pamphilus, abundant. — Thecla 



