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Several correspondents are thanked for lists 

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EXCHANGE. 



Duplicates. — Ovie of Dispar, pupa of 

 Lanestris, fine imagines of Paphia, Tiliu, Fas- 

 ciuncula, Strigilis, Batis, Derasa, Anctps, Trian- 

 gulum, Brunnea, C. nigrum, Gemina, Augur, 

 Nebulcsd, Herbida, Rurea, L. comma, Dentitia, 

 Notha. Desiderata. — Ova, pupa or ima- 

 gines, especially butterflies. — J. Lakins, 21, 

 Hertford Square, Butts, Coventry. 



NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



CoLiAS Edlsa near London. — I saw 

 two male Edusa flying along a hedgerow 

 here yesterday, and lots of V. atalanta and 

 urticce were besporting themselves in the 

 sunshine. The weather has been quite hot 

 lately. — E. R. Sheppard, 9, Camden Villas, 

 Sevenoaks, Kent. 



Sulphur Cockatoo. — Last summer a 

 large Sulphur Cockatoo that had escaped 

 out of a cage flew into a plantation close by 

 and got his own living for over three weeks. 

 I don't know what he got to eat. I used to 

 see him very often walking about in the 

 fields with the rooks. I believe he was 

 eventually caught. 



Cerastis Vaccinii. — Caught a specimen 

 by treacling, 12th November, 



Mildness of the Weather. — I heard a 

 number of Skylarks this morning in full 

 song, and saw them soaring up. I also 

 heard a Blackbird. I have been told that a 

 Blackbird's nest has been found lately in 

 the neighbourhood of Birmingham with 

 newly laid eggs in it. I saw a House Spar- 

 row building a nest in some ivy on the side 

 of a house. I saw a great flock of Paridae 

 in Sutton Park in the afternoon. Long- 

 tailed Tits were the commonest, but the 

 Great, Blue, and Cole Tits were in consid- 

 erable numbers. 20th November. 



H. Aspersa Hybernated. — I found a 

 ver ygreat number of the common snail, of 

 all sizes, under some old stumps on a bank. 

 They were all stuck together in a tight mass, 

 I suppose to pass the through the winter in 

 that state. 



H. Defoliaria has been very common 

 this year. In Sutton Park they were out 

 mostly about the end of October. Their 

 wingless females may still be found in num- 

 bers crawling up the trunks of oak-trees, but 

 many of them seem quite lifeless, they 

 hardly move a limb. 



C. Boreata has not been so plentiful ; 

 they were out mostly about the middle of 



I October. The last specimen I caught was 

 a male on the 13th November. 



C. BRU.MATA are out now in very great 



i numbers, they have been so some time. 



! Last year it was not until December that 

 they appeared, the cold weather having 



\ delayed them. — \V. H. Bath, Birmingham 



' and Sutton Coldfield, 20th November. 



THE PHILOSOPHY OF A 

 FLOWER. 



Abstract of a lecture delivered by Mr. 

 C. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S., before the Hudders- 

 field Literary and Scientific Society, Nov- 

 ! ember 14th, 1881. 



The lecturer commenced by stating that 

 the title might not convey the idea he had 



