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just been taken at Brighton : it was still living this 26th of 

 July, 1870. — E. Newman. 



Aporia Crat(Bgi at Faversham. — I have been much 

 puzzled for several years by finding the pupae of Aporia 

 Crataegi on posts and in the garden, as we have no white- 

 thorn near ; but this year I was fortunate enough to find the 

 larvae feeding on the apple trees and the pupae on the trunks. 

 — W. J. Skelton ; The Bounds^ Faversham, Kent. 



Sphinx Convolvuli near Chepstow. — I have just taken a 

 fine specimen of Sphinx Convolvuli at Petunias. — {Rev.) 

 E. Sellon ; Caerwood, Chepstow, August 15, 1870. 



Captures at Folkstone. — Whilst collecting in the Warren 

 at Folkstone, on the 10th of July, I took A. rubricata and A. 

 rusticata, by beating the Clematis near the Rakemere Pond. 

 These species I believe have been taken once before in the 

 Warren, as recorded in the * List of Macro-Lepidoptera of 

 Folkstone.' I also took one or two A. strigilata. — T. N. 

 Hoey ; 8, Stavely Road, Peckham, London. 



Variety of Argyntiis Aglaia. — In the early part of July 

 one of my family was fortunate enough to capture a male 

 variety of A. Aglaia, in one of our excursions to Stubby 

 Coppice, in the New Forest. The markings are very similar 

 to those of the female variety "Charlotta," as shown in your 

 * British Butterflies.' There are four large, oval, silvery 

 blotches at the base of the hind wing, on its under side, 

 distinctly outlined, the second having a black spot at its 

 outer end. At the hind margin of the wing are seven large 

 oval silver spots. The central line of spots is distinct, but 

 only tinged with silver, and by no means so conspicuous as 

 in the usual type. The green colour is also much duller 

 and deeper in tint than in the ordinary specimens. It was 

 flying amongst hundreds of Adippe, Aglaia, Paphia, with a 

 sprinkling of the black Valezina, but we search'ed in vain 

 for a second specimen. — {Rev.) James IVatson ; Tlie 

 Vicarage, Upper Norwood. 



Sugar in July. — It may interest you to know that sugar 

 has been most attractive throughout July in the New Forest : 

 the commoner moths, such as A. pyramidea, T. fimbria, 

 C. trapezina, A. Rumicis, N. brunnea, N. triangulum, &c., 

 were in countless swarms. On one tree a large patch of 

 sugar was completely hidden by a heap of these species, all 



