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find some of them distinctly marked on the upper side. — 

 Alfred E. Hiicld ; Stapleton Lodge, Stapleton Road^ Bristol, 

 December 14, 1870. 



Melatdhia Ruhiginata var. Phtmbaia, dc. — This species is 

 very common, as I have caught three dark, two black, and 

 one not quite black; I could have caught hundreds of the 

 true one as they were so plentiful. I have only met with 

 them in one place about here. 1 have also got a brownish 

 yellow specimen of the large Emerald (G. Papilionaria) this 

 year, on the 4th of July, hanging on the bough of a tree, at 

 evening. A brother entomologist, at Bolton, told Mr. King, 

 of London, and he said it was done with poisoning it; but I 

 had no poison with me then, but had pinched it under the wings. 

 It is not a faded specimen, as it looked quite fresh, and the 

 antennae and legs are the same colour. Last year I caught 

 two of the Comma butterfly on the valerian and peaches. 

 T have taken Agrotis saucia on ivy bloom, and A. suff'usa 

 this autumn. — IV. R. Kefford ; Latltom Gardens, Ormskirk, 

 Lancashire, December, 1870. 



Phibalapteryx conj anctaria,8^c .,near Newcastle, — The best 

 of my captures during the past season was one specimen of 

 Phibalapteryx cor)junctaria(Polygrammata of British Moths,' 

 175, and ' Doubleday's List.') : I took the insect at Newbeg- 

 ben-by-the-Sea, during the last week of July, flying at dusk, 

 near some swampy ground on the moor. In your * British 

 Moths' you name March and September to be the times of its 

 appearance ; probably it is only single-brooded in this part of 

 the country. I saw, but did not capture, D. Galii flying on 

 the 15th of July, much earlier than it has made its appearance 

 in the south this year. Two members of our Club found 

 larvae on the coast, which are now in pupse. About a dozen 

 N. Elymi were taken in July on the coast, near South 

 Shields, by Mr. Eales of that town. I have noticed the 

 occurrence of a second brood of V. Urticae this year : I 

 found the small larvae during the last week in May, and 

 again, on the same bed of nettles, on the 9th of August, 

 nearly full fed ; the butterflies were on the wing late in Sep- 

 tember. The Naturalist's Field Club, of this town, had a 

 day at Castle Eden Dene in the beginning of June : I only 

 succeeded in capturing one A. Blomeraria. I was afterwards 

 told we were a fortnight too early for it. Two or three 



