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Perabrey. My great expectations of the Burrowa were doomed to almost complete 

 disappointment ; I got a good series of A. ripce, under pieces of wood lying on the 

 sand, but nothing else worth mentioning. The asylum grounds have proved much 

 more productive, and the very little time devoted to collecting yielded some good 

 things. In July a specimen of P. isodactylus was beaten out of a hedge. A day or 

 two later the British specimen of Scoparia Zelleri, previously recorded as having 

 been captured by the Rev. E. Horton, appeared at light; and the same agent has 

 since attracted a specimen each of E. fuscantaria, L. cespitis, D. Terrvpli, E. luim- 

 lenta, and Diasemia literalis. These, with a multitude of commoner species, show 

 the richness of the district, and will serve as an incentive to greater exertion 

 next season.— George J. Heardeii, Joint Counties' Asylum, Carmarthen, December 

 1st, 1868. 



CoUas Hyale near London ; abundance of Cynthia ca/rdAi% Sfc. — A friend of mine 

 saw a specimen of Colias Hyale (now in my possession) caught in the waste ground 

 between Finchley and Edgware Road Railway Stations. I have also heard of two 

 other specimens having been taken there, and I was on the spot when another was 

 taken this morning. Colias Edusa is not of unfrequent occurrence in the same place. 

 I saw it also in our garden about the middle of J uly. 



I suppose that every entomologist and collector has noticed the extreme abun- 

 dance of Cynthia cardui all over England this year. In a clover field near Kenil- 

 worth (where I have been staying during the last month) I and some other col- 

 lectors who were in the same field caught nearly twenty in one morning ; it was 

 also very common near here last month, but is not taken nearly so frequently now. 

 — Ernest B. Bax, 12, Mansfield Villas, Hampstead, September 8th, 1868. 



Occurrence of Tapinostola elymi at Cleethorpe. — I am happy to inform you that 

 the above-named insect is to be taken freely at Cleethorpe, in Lincolnshire. The 

 larva feeds on the sand-reed {Elymus arenarius)^ and the perfect insect may be 

 shaken out of that plant in the day-time, and is found at rest on it at night. Time — 

 the beginning to end of July. — Joseph Chappell, 8, Richmond Street, Greenheys, 

 Manchester, 2Srd November, 1868. 



Eupithecia irriguata, ^c, at Qlanvilles Wootton. — I have taken here, during 

 this year, E. irriguata, Macaria alternata, Phycis abietella, &c. ; Heliothis dipsacea 

 was bred on June 4th from a pupa found in October, at Charmouth, amongst 

 melilot. — Chas. W. Dale, Glanvilles Wootton, Sherborne, November 12th, 1868. 



Lwrentia salicata in North Devon. — Among some insects taken by my young 

 friend Master Arthur Chandler, at Challcombe, North Devon, where he is at 

 school, I find several specimens of Larentia salicata. These, he tells me, were 

 taken about a sand-pit on the borders of Exmoor, where they were common. The 

 occurrence of this species so far south seems worth recording. These show hardly 

 any variation from northern specimens. — Chas. G. Barrett, Norwich. 



Abundance of the larvce of Botys asinalis near Bishopstowe. — Rubia peregrina, 

 the food-plant of B. asinalis, is very abundant on the rocks and in the hedges just 

 below Bishopstowe, and there is scarcely a plant but has been attacked by the 

 larvse ; the white patches caused by them in the dark green leaves of the plant are 

 quite a feature in the landscape. — E. Horton, Powick, Worcester, Nov. l^th, 1868. 



