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because I am under tlie impression that the insect has never been recorded as having 

 occurred at Folkestone, and partly on account of the sex of the individual ; female 

 cinerea not being, I believe, caught eveiy day. — Id. 



Note on Eadena atriplicis, ^'c. — I have lately reared a fine series of Hadena 

 atnplicis, from eggs deposited by a female caught at Cambridge last year. I 

 should not have troubled you with this communication had not a well-known 

 Cambridge entomologist informed me that his bred specimens of this insect were 

 always both small and badly coloured ; while mine, on the contrary, are of the 

 average size, and well marked. 



Last week I took a male H. dominula at Lustheigh, in good condition. From 

 the fact that this insect has been captured at Exeter, Teigiiraouth (i.e., Great and 

 Little Waldon), and that it is common at Ashburton, [ am inclined to think it is 

 common throughout the moorland parts of the county. — Charles Grinstead, 

 Torella, Torquay, 22nd June, 1868. 



Results of a day and a night's collecting in Sherwood Forest. — The old forest is 

 now in its glory, and well worth a visit from even the most apathetic of Nature's 

 admirers. For miles you may wander among grand oaks, some " stag-homed," 

 but majestic in their ruin ; others in the fall vigour of life, interspersed with the 

 gi-aceful birch, whose tall, silvery stems gleam white far away in the distance ; 

 with here and there an alder, mountain-ash, or white-thorn. Few flowering plants 

 are seen, the ground being chiefly covered with fern, five or six feet high, or in the 

 open places with tall, waving grass. Among the latter we sprung a few Euthemonia 

 russula, all apparently fresh from the pupae : they were easily caught, flying very 

 lazily. A. Adippe was just out, but in the glowing sunlight a chase was not very 

 agreeable : we got, however, about a dozen specimens. From the oaks we beat 

 a few specimens of Conopalpus testaceus, and a single example of Phlceotyra 

 rufipes. The mountain ash gave us Rhynchites cupreus. Wading through 

 the fern was no joke, and we hailed with joy the spire of Edwinstowe Church 

 peeping through the trees. After lunch, we re-opened our campaign, but, with 

 the exception of a single specimen of Conopalpus Vigorsii, and a pair of Drepana 

 falcataria and of Eepialus velleda, nothing of much importance fell to our lot. 

 There was a perfect plague of flies ; the only remedy was a vigorous fumigation, 

 and I should advise all entomologists who come this way to remember their pipes. 

 As evening drew on, we obtained a good many fair specimens of Cyhosia mesornella 

 flying in the open places ; and at sugar, among hosts of common things, we got 

 Thyatira hatis and derasa, Ne^iria saponarice^ and two Hadena contigua. One tree 

 hterally swarmed with the male Lampyris noctiluca ; as fast as we could bottle 

 them they came flying : we saw but one female, and she was accompanied by four 

 or five males. We intend to try the bark in a few weeks, and will report progress. 

 — Richard and William Tyrer, Grove House, Mansfield, June 2oth, 1868. 



The Bidterflies of North America ; with coloured drawings and descriptions. By 

 Wm. H. Edwards. Philadelphia : the American Entomological Society. London : 

 Tmbner & Co., Paternoster Row. 



