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really looks very like a distinct species. The vertex is slightly 

 produced in front, the neuration of the wings is more distinct, 

 and the colouring is pale rufous, which on the crown forms 

 a A shaped mark. In a field or two west of this place, in a 

 swampy spot only a few yards square, I swept up a lot of large 

 specimens (two and a half to three lines), every one of which, 

 both males and females, is as dark in colour as the small males 

 from Holywell. 



Of the species of Iassus, ocellaris is by far the most abundant 

 with us. Scarcely can a tuft of rough herbage be disturbed 

 without meeting with it in plenty ; paseuellus is also abundant, 

 but more local; subfuscata, and prasinas, are also most abun- 

 dant, occurring in woods ; quadrinotatus abounds in wet mea- 

 dows ; sexnotatus is equally common in rough pastures ; striatus 

 is very common on the banks of the Derwent, near Axwell Park. 



Of JEupteryx, smargadulus is very abundant amongst willows, 

 &c, by the Derwent and elsewhere ; rosce abounds on roses in 

 our garden at Long Benton, in July : a second brood appeared 

 this year about the beginning of October, and continued to be 

 seen in plenty up to the end of the month ; flavescens and pul- 

 chella are also common enough ; vittata- occurs also frequently, 

 but less common ; aurata and urtica frequent beds of nettles, and 

 are exceedingly abundant everywhere throughout the district. 



XXVIII. — Entomological Notes for the Year 1866. By Thomas 

 John Bold. 



The past year (1866) has, in our district, been an unfavourable 

 one for the collector of insects. On going over my notes I find 

 that the peculiarity of the season lies in the nearly total absence 

 of destructive species and their larva?. "With very few exceptions, 

 our fields and gardens were exempt from the ravages of insect 

 enemies. The larva? of Lepidoptera, of Saw-flies, of Coleoptera, 

 and of Diptera, were alike wanting, or in very reduced numbers ; 



