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The species has been scarce in this district now for many 

 years, but it was tolerably common in 1857 and 1858, and 

 i frequently found the pupa hung up under copings and on 

 palings in the suburbs, and even in the town itself in the 

 neighbourhood of gardens. — Joseph Merrin ; Gloucester. 



Pier is Daplidice at Portsmouth. — You will be glad to 

 hear that a second specimen of Pieris Daplidice has been 

 taken at Portsmouth, in the last week in August: it was sent 

 alive by its captor to my Cheltenham correspondent, and has 

 kindly been given to me as a companion for the specimen 

 noted last month. This one is a male, in very bad order; 

 the first being a female, in generally good condition, but a 

 little chipped on one hind wing. — H. W. Marsden. 



Variety of Rhodocera Rhamni. — I wish to record the cap- 

 ture of a curious variety of Rhodocera Rhamni. I took it at 

 Midhurst, in Sussex. It is a female, with nearly half of the 

 right upper wing, from the body to the edge, of the male's 

 colour. I have never seen one like it. — H. A. Bull ; Harrow. 



Camponiscus Healcei. — A careful inspection of the alders 

 growing at Shirley, Surrey, last September (1869), resulted in 

 the collection of twenty-four of the curious larvae of this 

 species. By feeding them exclusively on leaves of the alders 

 from which they were taken, and by keeping the mould in 

 the breeding-jar nice and damp, I was successful last May in 

 rearing fifteen examples of this rare Tenthredo. — C. Healy, 



Hesperia Actceon at Swanage and Tyneham, and Tryphcena 

 suhsequa at Wareham. — Hesperia Actaeon has been taken 

 in great numbers in two new localities in this neighbourhood 

 this season, at Swanage and near Tyneham. I took a fine 

 specimen of Tryphaena subsequa here on the 12th of July. — 

 T, Parmiter ; Kimmeridge, Wareham, Dorset, Sept. 17. 



Deilephila lineata near Maidstone. — I took a splendid 

 specimen of Deilephila lineata at Hunton, near Maidstone, 

 on the 23rd of August. It flew into the drawing-room, pro- 

 bably attracted by the light, and, after fluttering about for a 

 few minutes, finally settled in the fire-place, where I captured 

 it. It is a very large specimen, measuring three inches and 

 a half across the wings, and is in beautiful condition. — H. D, 

 Greville ; 60, Threadneedle Street, September 9, 1870. 



Deilephila lineata in Cornwall. — A day or two since, on 

 looking over a small collection of moths, made this summer, 

 by a gentleman residing in Looe, I found another specimen 



