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wings were made specialities, and one species, lost on the 

 death of one of our most successfal collectors, was worked 

 out as to its life-history, and now forms a series of gems in 

 collections which never hoped to possess the species ; and 

 another, known only in odd cabinets by single specimens 

 down here (in one by a pair), is now in rows in our best 

 cabinets ; and another, about which so little was known or 

 cared that it became a moot point whether it ever had any 

 claim in our list, has been got, south and north, in profusion; 

 whilst another of our old rarities has cast a shadow before it 

 which will probably ere long ensure the possession of the 

 reality : the same remarks apply to a heath-feeding species 

 not yet in our list; whilst the most beautiful species in the 

 genus, once unique in it, the glory of one of our most 

 useful collectors, now graces all our best cabinets, (in some) 

 as a long row of fire amongst the red or yellow belts. Then 

 the long-neglected plumes became the order of the day, and 

 the life-history of apparently closely-allied species proved 

 how different lepidopterous insects might be in their earlier 

 states, and yet require the most practised eye to differentiate 

 them in their imago state : species new to Science were 

 the result ; whilst the delicate fingers of a lady in the South 

 have captured and set a species new to the British list. 

 There is still another new species, in the hands of our most 

 esteemed English entomologist, not yet announced. Last, 

 but largest, the Sphingina : for several years we have been 

 working at them, and though the progress was slow at first, 

 still it was and is now most satisfactory : Lineata bred in 

 the South, Lineata and Celerio captured, and the latter bred 

 from larvae taken in the Isle of Man ; whilst the larvae of 

 Galii have been taken in abundance on our coast during 

 August last, one acquaintance boasting the possession of 

 above one hundred, another of eighty, gone down "all right," 

 and others of less numbers down to a single pupa. Other 

 families have been persistently pursued with like results, but, 

 fearing to occupy too much of your valuable space, let this 

 suffice to show the advantages of working out special 

 families when practicable. — C. S. Gregson ; Rose Bank, 

 Fletcher Grove, Liverpool^ October 1, 1870. 



Helioihis peltiyer at Bognor. — 1 have much pleasure in 

 recording the capture of a fine specimen of tJ. peltiger 



