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district. — Kobt. Newstead ; Grosvenor Museum, Chester, Sept. 29th. On 

 Sept. 7th Mr. J. Lyon Denson, of Chester, showed me a fulJ-grown larva 

 of A. atropos taken about three miles from the city. This makes at least 

 the seventh taken in the neighbourhood during the latter part of this 

 summer and beginning of autumn.— J. Arkle ; Chester. 



Essex. — Several larvae of A. atropos occurred in the neighbourhood of 

 Dovercourt at the end of August. — Geevase F. Mathew. 



Kent. — On August 17th a brother of mine found, at Hawkhurst, Kent, 

 a very fine yellow example of the larva of A. atropos ; it has since gone to 

 earth. I have known of others taken in this neighbourhood at intervals 

 since 1876. — J. Adams; 41, Whyteville Road, Forest Gate, E. 



Lincolnshire. — Larvae and pupae of this beautiful moth appear to have 

 been unusually abundant this year in the potato-fields in the Long Sutton 

 district during August and September, Being there on August 17th, my 

 brother from London met me, with a fine larva taken from the top of a 

 potato barrel the day before in the Nine Elms Railway goods-yard. At an 

 early hour on the 19th a boy brought me another fine one, picked up in the 

 street opposite the poUce-station, both being of the yellowish tint, and both, 

 when put into a flower-pot with earth, buried themselves at once in order 

 to pupate, which they did. From the last-mentioned date up to Sept. 30th 

 I have received over one hundred and fifty pupae; several have died, either 

 from the handling by the potato-pickers or bad packing during transit. I 

 have this morning received another box of fifty, and am expecting more, so 

 have already received upwards of two hundred. — W. Brooks ; Grange Hall, 

 Rotherham, Oct. 10th, 1896. 



Sussex. — Larvae of Acherontia atropos have been somewhat plentiful in 

 the Chichester district again this season, the first being found on July 22nd, 

 the last on Sept. 1st. On July 17th a fine moth — a loud squeaker — 

 emerged from my last year's pupae, of which 1 had eleven, and from which 

 I succeeded in bringing out only three perfect specimens. I have had 

 thirteen larvae in my possession this year. — Joseph Anderson, Jun. 



Rhopalocera from Colwyn Bay. — I spent the latter half of August 

 at this fastly-increasing seaside resort, during which I was favoured with the 

 most desirable weather. Although most of the species of Rhopalocera 

 which I came across are more or less common, the following will show that 

 Colwyn Bay is not a bad place for them, even towards the end of the 

 season ; in fact I have heard that nearly forty different species occur, or 

 have occurred, in the inumediate neighbourhood: — Fieris brassiccB and 

 P. rapcB, very common ; F. napi, extremely abundant ; Lasiommata 

 egeria, very abundant, especially on the borders of the PwUycrochan 

 Woods ; L. megcera, abounds in almost every situation ; Hipparchia semele, 

 common among the rugged slopes of Bryn Euryn and on the Little Orme's 

 Head (I have observed it resting in considerable numbers on the face of the 

 bare rockj ; H. ianira, common everywhere ; H. tithoiius, fairly common ; 

 Ccenonympha pamphilus, very common ; Vanessa atalanta and V. io, a 

 few newly-emerged examples seen ; V. nrticce, second brood well on the 

 wing; Argynnis paphia was over (I only saw one straggler); A, euphro- 

 syne, one example only ; Folyommatus phlceas, common ; Lycana icarus, 

 extremely abundant ; L. agestis, sparingly at Bryn Euryn, but common on 

 the Little Orme. — Augustus D. Imms; Linthurst, Oxford Road, Moseley 

 (near Birmingham), Worcestershire, Aug. 28th, 1896. 



