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Insects. 



B. frangulella. May to July. Among Rhamnus Frangula. 



Pterophorus acanthodactylus. August, October. In woods and hedges, scarce. 



P. punclidactylus. July. Mr. M'Lachlan first took a specimen, and some days 

 afterwards T met with others. 



From this list it is evident that I cannot echo the complaint of many other ento- 

 mologists, that there have been no insects this year ; indeed, the common butterflies, 

 which seem to have failed in some places, have most of them been very abundant 

 here. Still some things have disappeared in a most extraordinary manner. I have 

 not seen a single specimen of either of the following : — Argynnis Paphia, A. Aglaia, 

 A. Adippe, Thymele Alveolus, Smerinthus Populi, Sesia Tipuliformis, Hepialus Hu- 

 muli, Anthrocera Filipendulse, Nola cucullalis, Lithosia complanula, Euchelia 

 Jacobasae, Miana furuncula, Caradrina Morpheus, C. cubicularis, Hadena oleracea, 

 Cucullia umbratica, or Mania maura, and only one Lycama jEgon, oue Acronycta 

 Psi, four Agrotis exclamationis, two or three Hadena dentina, one Amphpiyra Trago- 

 pogonis, and one Mania typica ; and even Apamea oculea, Agrotis Segetum, Xylo- 

 phasia lithoxylea and X. polyodon, Noctua xanthographa, and Cosmia trapezina 

 were comparatively uncommon, and I am inclined to say long may they continue so, 

 or to hope that it may be the rule in this neighbourhood. On the other hand, many 

 things were excessively abundant, and in June and October Noctuae came' to the 

 sugar in swarms.— Charles G. Barrett ; Haslemere, November 15, 1862. 



Description of the Larva of Nemeobius Luciaa. — Ground colour dingy olive. 

 Central dorsal line blackish or very dark olive, much darker at the centre of each seg- 

 ment. Subdorsal lines slanting, dark olive, dotted posteriorly on each segment by a dull 

 yellow spot. On each segment between dorsal and subdorsal lines a largish orange 

 tubercular spot, surmounted by a tuft of reddish orange hair. Between subdorsal 

 aud spiracular lines a similar row of smaller spots and tufts. Spiracular line indis- 

 tinct, anteriorly olive, posteriorly dull yellow. Spiracles black. Head reddish yellow. 

 Belly dirty greenish olive, destitute of markings. Feeds on the under side of the 

 leaves of cowslip. Full-fed middle of July. Eggs white, conical, laid singly or in 

 small clusters at the end of May and beginning of June, at the back of the leaves of 

 cowslip. Pupa pale straw-colour. Along the centre of both thorax and abdomen a 

 double row of largish black spots; on each side three similar rows, the intermediate 

 row much smaller than the other two. Upper border of wing-cases black. On the 

 head or extreme end of thorax two transverse black bands. Suspended by a thread 

 across the junction of thorax and,abdomen. In form, colour and general appearance 

 closely resembles the pupa of M. Artemis. — H. Harpur Crewe ; the Rectory, Bread- 

 sail, near Derby, February 8, 1 862. 



Lyccena Dorylas, S. V., in England. — In Lewin's ' Papilios of Great Britain,' 

 published in 1795, figures are given of a Lyceena under the name of " Hyacinthus,'' 

 which Lewin states he took in two successive years by the side of a chalk-hill near 

 Dailford, in Kent. Ochsenheimer refers these figures to L. Dorylas, S. V. The late 

 J. F. Stephens, in his ' Illustrations,' doubtingly gives Lewin's insect as distinct from 

 Adonis, and in his latest publication, the Museum Catalogue, it stands as "variety a" 

 of that species. I do not know whether any of Lewin's specimens are now in exist- 

 ence, but his figures most certainly represent the sexes of Lycaena Dorylas, which is 

 distinguished from Adonis by its paler blue colour slightly tinged with green, imma- 

 culate cilia, and the absence of the two transverse ocelli at the base of the superiorw ings 

 beneath. Mr. Cooke, of Oxford Street, recently detected two specimens of this species 



