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present season ; it was out (in even greater numbers than the first) by July 

 15th. It was particularly abundant about a thick hedge which runs along 

 the top of the chalk ridge east of the town. There is practically no holly 

 and very little ivy there ; and when they were not sipping the nectar from 

 the bramble-flowers, it was observed that the common buckthorn (Rhamnus 

 cathardcus) was in almost every case chosen as a resting-place, so it is more 

 than likely that that shrub was the food-plant in the present instance. The 

 most remarkable thing was the extreme scarcity of the females, the propor- 

 tion seemed to be about one female to a hundred males. — W. Grover ; 

 Guildford, Nov. 1st, 1896. 



Hhopalopsyche NYCTERis IN ENGLAND. — An example of this species 

 was caught by one of my sons at Exmouth some time since. It has been 

 identified by Sir George Hampson at the British Museum. Doubtless it 

 has been imported accidentally into England, but the occurrence is 

 genuine. — Frank Stone; 94, Palace Gardens Terrace, W., Nov. 9th. 



Notes on the Rhopalocera. — That the past season has been rather 

 eccentric as regards the time of appearance of Rhopalocera the following 

 will testify -.—Lyccena icarus. Two specimens were captured on April 

 17th. — Euchloe cardamines. A male was seen as late as June 13th. — 

 Pieris hrassiccB. Larvae feeding during the middle of October. — The 

 Vanessidae were very scarce, with the exception of F. urticcs, which 

 was, however, abundant in the first brood. The primary cause of the 

 extreme scarcity of the three usually common species seems to have been 

 due to the very wet weather at the time when they usually emerge ; from 

 Aug. 21st till now, as I am writing, there have been only about nine days 

 without rain ; the weather during the whole time was cool, and there was 

 but little sunshine. Although 1 kept a sharp look-out I only observed four 

 specimens of V. atalanta, about a dozen V. urticcb (second brood), and not a 

 single specimen of io. Larvse of urticcB and atalanta were abundant 

 enough ; I bred some numbers of both. All were found on or about 

 Aug. 27th (the time when imagines are usually pretty freely on the wing). 

 The first urticcd emerged Sept. 22nd; last, Oct. 10th. First atalanta 

 Sept. 27th ; last emerged rather earlier than those of the other species. 

 Both insects were placed under exactly the same conditions, being reared 

 indoors. The district which I am working does not seem to produce any 

 species out of the common, the best capture this year being two Vanessa 

 c-album last July at bramble-blossom. — A. D. Imms ; Linthurst, Oxford 

 Road, Moseley, Worcestershire, Oct. 12th, 1896. 



-/^ Notes on Orthoptera. — On Aug. 8th last, near Ohristchurch in 

 Hants, I met with Ectohia panzeri, Steph., our smallest cockroach, in some 

 numbers. They were found under dead seaweed and other rubbish, but a 

 few yards from the shore, and on ground that would apparently be often 

 washed by the sea itself. They were very active, and as soon as uncovered 

 hurried away out of sight. The females were, perhaps, rather commoner 

 than the males, and many specimens of both sexes were dark, especially in 

 the legs. In the New Forest, at the beginning of August last, Nemobius 

 sylvestris, Fabr., the smallest of our crickets, was very common near 

 Brockenhurst, though some patience was required to catch any number, for 

 they run about very rapidly amongst the dead leaves and other rubbish, 

 and occasionally vary their movements by short hops of about nine or ten 

 inches in length. While catching N. sylvestris I secured two specimens, a 



