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THE BRITISH NATURALIST. 



["June 



mario, Tipula vernalis ; 24, C. silaceata, A. remutata, C. pas aria, P. petraria, 

 H. arbuti, L. marginata, P. purpuralis, P. cespitalis, Libellula depressa, &c. 

 In fact most things are generally out we expect generally to see 1st 

 June. — :C. W. Dale, Glanvilles Wootton, 24th April, 1893. 



The Early Season in Somerset. — Nearly all Lepidoptera are a 

 month earlier than usual. Alveolus appeared 14th April ; tages and 

 euphrosyne, 20th ; teams, 28th ; lubricifieda, 3rd May ; menthastri, 5th ; 

 jacobcea, 6th ; sylvanus, nth ; mendica, 20th ; Skd so on to any extent. 

 — W. Macmillan, Castle Cary. 



The Early Season in Devon. — We have had the most marvel- 

 lous April I ever remember, and up to the 15th of May when the 

 weather changed and much needed rain fell, the season has been three 

 to six weeks in advance. Fancy villica, artemis, athalia, and selene 

 all on April 27th. I actually took 33 species of Heterocera (without 

 counting small Geometrae) at light in one week May gth to 15th. I 

 never did such a thing before. — (Miss) K. M. Hinchliffe, Instow. 



Query, Locusts. — Can any reader of the " British Naturalist " 

 inform me if he knows of the occurrence of any species of Migratory 

 Locust in the British Isles within the last ten years, if so, will he 

 oblige me with particulars of same ? — -W. Harcourt Bath, 195, 

 Lady wood Road, Birmingham. 



Query, Lycena argiolus. — Does the Holly Blue continue to 

 exist in its old haunts, or is it disappearing from many of them, and if 

 so, can any one suggest a cause for the disappearance ? — W. Macmillan, 

 Castle Cary. 



Publications Received. 



Lepidoptera of Dorsetshire by C. W. Dale. — It is not often 

 that a local catalogue reaches a second edition. Generally, such pub- 

 lications are out of print a long time before there appears to be demand 

 for another, and often by then the original author is dead, and an 

 altogether new work is projected. But in the six years that have elapsed 

 since the first edition of this excellent catalogue appeared, no less than 

 130 new species have been added to the county fauna. This speaks 

 volumes for the activity of the Lepidopterists of Dorsetshire, and we 

 do not wonder Mr. Dale has issued a second edition of his carefully 

 compiled catalogue, which will be found, not only to include the 130 

 species new to the county, but a variety of additional records of the 

 occurrence of the rarer species. He has omitted the " other orders " 

 which formed an interesting addition to the first edition. 



