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Leigh, Essex, district between Southend pier and Hadleigh Castle, July 25th, 26th, 

 27th, 1890, shewing a total of 160 species and 22 varieties. — H. W. Barker, Hon. Sec. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Lyc^na Arion. — It is with great pleasure we read in the Ento- 

 mologist's Monthly Magazine for August, that Mr. Goss has found 

 this butterfly again on the Cotswold Hills. Not having been taken 

 since 1884, it was generally believed to be extinct, and the re-discovery 

 of the species is of considerable interest. 



Sphinx convolvuli. — The first Convolvuli of the season was 

 brought me to-day by a lad who found it at rest. It is a large $ 

 specimen, but not improved by inexperienced handling, — John E* 

 Robson, Hartlepool, 23rd August, 1890. 



DiANTHiEciA carpophaga. — In August, I collected a few larvae of 

 this species one evening, and being unwell 1 neglected to send them 

 away. On looking in the box a few days after I found they had 

 pupated. One of these emerged on August 18th and another a week 

 later. They were kept in the same room as Biundularia mentioned 

 below until August 13th, when they were taken into the kitchen. I 

 have bred some hundreds of this species one time and another, but 

 never before had one emerged till the next spring. — Id. 



Tephrosia crepuscularia, — Withus Cvepuscidaria has most cer- 

 tainly two broods every summer, while Biundularia has only one . 

 The first brood of Crepuscularia appears from 26th March to end 

 of April, then in the same wood Biundidaria appears as Crepusctdaria 

 dies off, certainly not before the early part of May, and lasts until 

 June. Later in the season we have a second brood of Crepuscularia 

 only. I have bred them both and cannot see any reason to doubt 

 their being perfectly distinct. Possibly further north, Crepuscidavia 

 may only have one brood, but I think it is Biundidaria only that is 

 found in the North of England and Scotland, and of course it has but 

 one brood there as in the South. The fact that we get them in the 

 same woods but at different times ought to establish their distinctness 

 independent of other reasons —this applies to Berkshire, Surrey and 

 Kent, at any rate. — John Henderson, Streatham. 



