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twelve and a half lines in expanse. — F. E. Harman ; The 

 Valletts, Whitfield, near Hereford, September 28, 1870. 



[The idea that dry seasons affect the size of Lepidoptera is 

 not supported by observation, and is, at present nothing more 

 than hypothesis. — E. Newman^ 



Tithonus and Comma in Shropshire. — In the October 

 number of your ' British Butterflies' you say that you have 

 no record of the occurrence of Tithonus in Shropshire. I 

 have, however, frequently seen it, and have caught several 

 specimens near the village of Westfelton, about six miles 

 from Oswestry, and about twelve or thirteen miles from 

 Shrewsbury. I have also caught Comma at the same 

 place, and a specimen was caught this year. — E, R. Kenyon ; 

 October 7, 1870. 



Cocnonympha Daviis, 8fc. — I see from your notice of Mr. 

 Eedle's collection brought from Perthshire, that his speci- 

 mens of Coenonympha Davus are uniform in colour and want 

 the eye-spots of the hind wings. Such is not the case w^ith 

 the Ross-shire specimens of that insect. I have a fine series 

 taken on the next coast, with great variations in the colour ; 

 the white band and eye-spots of the hind wings being well 

 defiued. In the same district I have found Hipparchia 

 Tithonus andTheclaQuercus. — A. Davidson; Tarbert^Fearn, 

 by Inverness, November 12, 1870. 



Liparis dispar. — In the matter of Liparis dispar allow me 

 to say that while passing by coach the side of Loch Mara a 

 larva fell from a tree on to my coat; I had no difficulty in 

 recognizing it, as I had bred a number of them the preceding 

 summer. This, I think, ought to set at rest the question 

 whether L. dispar is now indigenous. — Id. 



Depraved taste in Aryiolus. — During July of the present 

 year a drain, which was opened on our premises, attracted 

 several fresh specimens of L. Argiolus. It was very interest- 

 ing to watch them flying over the drain, sometimes alighting 

 to sip the sewage, which they seemed to prefer to the 

 flowers in the adjoining fields. Has this depraved taste been 

 observed before in these pretty blues .^ — C. J. Watkins ; 

 Kirufs Mills, Painswick, Gloucestershire, November 16, 

 1870. 



C. Hyale at Dover. — Whilst staying at Dover during the 

 month of August I succeeded in capturing three specimens 



