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In May, two lovely specimens of H. contigua made their appearance, and C. 

 reclusa came out freely. About the same time I bred D. capsincola, cucuhalij 

 conspersa, and carpophaga, the first-named in considerable numbers. About the 

 middle of the month a large brood of E. fuscantaria crept from the shell, and three 

 Kttle cannibal colonies are now established on a privet hedge in the garden. 



While staying at Oxford I took H. uncana and P. agestis, both freshly out ; and 

 my friend Mr. Leigh met with H. harhalis, in as good condition as possible, at 

 Bagley Wood. 



N. Lucina, whose time had just commenced, we unfortunately missed, a 

 moment's view of one richly-coloured spechnen being only sufficient to assure us 

 that the pretty little fritillary was out. On a lamp by the New Museum I found 

 the darkest male of 0. pudibunda T have ever seen. 



At Coombe Wood, the other day, my brother fell in with P. ramana, and at the 

 end of the month the first H. chenopodii emerged from the pupa.— J. B. Blackburn, 

 Grassmeade, June, 1868. 



"Notes on collecting in Burnt and Bishop's Woods, in Staffordshire. — I give some 

 results of a week's collecting in J une in the above-mentioned woods. 



In Trichoptera, I again found one Neu/ronia clathrata (beaten out of birch), and 

 had the pleasure (if pleasure it can be called) of seeing another, but failed to 

 captui'e it. Stenophylax alpestris was beaten rather freely in a marshy place, with 

 neither streams nor ponds in the vicinity. Limnephihis omricula and L. vittatus 

 were beaten from Scotch fii* in exceedingly dry situations.* L. luridus was found 

 in the greenhouse at Willoughbridge. Most of the usual species of Coleoptera were 

 found ; but I did not see Calosoma inquisitor, which was abundant last season, 

 running on the branches in search of Lepidopterous larvae, and falling to the ground 

 with the larvae still in their jaws on the application of a blow from the beating-stick. 

 In Lepidoptera, I had the pleasure of taking Sesia sphegiformis in both woods. The 

 insect rests upon low plants in the neighbourhood of alder, and one specimen was 

 found among birch, far from alder, hovering over a tuft of Calluna about 4 p.m. ; 

 it is also upon the wing in the evening, flying rapidly and undulating like M. stella- 

 tarum. Angerona prunaria was in profusion. Macaria notata rather sparingly; 

 together with Bwpithecia pVumheolata, pulchellata, and lariciata. The larva of 

 Trachcea piniperda was abundant ; the pupa is decidedly subterranean. Hymenoptera 

 were plentiful. Diptera very abundant. I captured one Asilus forcipatus carrying 

 Tenthredo livida in its mouth; also Chrysotoxum marginatum rather sparingly, 

 hovering and flying in and out of the heather like some wasps. Tipula crocata was 

 abundant on dusty roads ; all females but one, which was beaten from fir. — Joseph 

 Chappell, 8, Richmond Road, Greenheys, Manchester, 12th June, 1868. 



Early <md late aippearances of Lepidoptera. — Saturnia carpini occurred on Chat 

 Moss from the 5th to the 12th April ; A. lepoHna I found stretching on the 25th 

 May ; and the same evening I saw T. gothica at rest on the trunk of an Alder ; 

 one specimen each of T. populeti and ruhricosa emerged from the pupa on the 18th 

 and 20th of May. The latter pupae were dug during the winter, and had been 

 kept in a warm room. — Chas. Campbell, 14, Blackburn Street, Upper Moss Lane, 

 Hulme, Manchester, June 8th, 1868. 



* The species of Limnephiltis seem to fly any distance to rest in Scotch-fir. No other tree offers 

 such adTantages to the collector of these insects.— R. McL. 



