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P. Cerambryciformis are found on flowers, especially umbelliferse, 

 near Manchester. 



P. sexmaculata are found on flowers in Scotland, it is very rare. 

 Strangalia aurulenta are found in old stumps in the New Eorest, 

 Swansea, and north coast of Devon. 

 S« quadrifasciata is found in old trees in Sherwood Forest. 

 S- maculata is abundant on the flowers of umbelliferse. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



L. Icarus at Hoy. — I have led all my readers astray in this matter and 

 must cry mea culpa. Mr. Dale (see supplement p. 72.) called Hoy " the most 

 Northerly of the Shetlands." It was this slip, and not the occurrence of 

 Icarus at Hoy that Mr. Curzon wrote to correct. Hoy is one of the Southern 

 Orkneys, and the passage on page 72 should read: — 



This is the commonest of all the Blues, abounding in meadows, on heaths and downs, 

 and not at all confined to chalky soils like its congeners, and occurs all over the British 

 Isles, from the Orkney Islands, where it has been met with both on the main Island and 

 at Hoy, to the Lizard Point, in Cornwall. 



On the same page is another blunder. The second paragraph ought to 

 read : — 



The egg is circular and of a greenish-white colour, with raised glistening white 

 reticulations having projecting knobs at the knots. 

 The caterpillar when full grown, is of a dark green colour covered with tiny hairs, &c. 



This blunder is mine. — J. E. Robso>~, Hartlepool. 



Lyclena Acis. — Some of the last few specimens of L. acts, that were taken 

 in this country were not mentioned in the issue of the Y.N. for July, unless 

 Mr. Pearson's remark on page 137 is intended to refer to them. In July, 

 1877, the hot year that the Clouded Yellows (Eduso) were so abundant, two 

 brothers residing at Penarth, the Rev. C. Roberts, of Oxford University, and 

 E. Lloyd Roberts (afterwards a member of the Haggerston Entomological 

 Society), sons of the late Captain Roberts, of Cardiff, took six specimens of 

 Acis in one spot at Penarth, but notwithstanding many more searches they 

 could not find them another season. When Mr. E. Lloyd Roberts left for 

 New Zealand he gave one specimen, which has twice been exhibited at Hag- 

 gerston, and probably is the cause of the note above referred to. It is a 

 fairly good example, very low set ; the remainder were in the Rev. C. 

 Roberts' collection at Fulborne, Cambridge, some timo ago; I saw him last 



