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beginning to fly, I netted three, when down came the rain in torrents, 

 there was no shelter at hand, moss on every side, so there was nothing 

 for it but to face the eight miles home in the driving rain. — J. Collins 

 Warrington. 



Pamphila lineola in Huntingdonshire.— Though far from being 

 a young man, I must needs be "in the fashion," and have "new 

 things": — therefore, on 19th August, last rather "late in season," by 

 the way, I took Pamphila lineola in Huntingdonshire. Has its capture 

 been recorded from that County before ?■ — Chas. Oldham, Woodford. 



Un-seasonable Note. — On 3rd October, 1890, the only moth that 

 came to sugar, in my garden, was a fine, fresh specimen of Mamestra 

 brassicce. Query ? " Did his mother know he was out " so late in the 

 year. — Id. 



Heliophobus hispida. — I have done hardly any collecting this 

 year, but I had two nights at Portland in September, where I got 

 Heliophobis hispida and Epunda lichenea. — H. W. Vivian, Liege, 

 Belgium. 



Leucophasia sinapis. — I captured a few specimens of this butterfly 

 last June, but I do not generally take a species that may be easily 

 exterminated. A good locality for Alsus is now no more in conse- 

 quence of indiscriminate collecting. — J. B. Pilley, Hereford. 



DiANTHiEciA Capsophila emerging in Autumn. — I read with 

 very great interest a note by Mr. John E. Robson, in the September 

 number of "The Young Naturalist," at page 171, on the speedy 

 development from the larva to the imago of D. Carpophaga. Perhaps 

 the following, may prove of some interest to our readers. On 

 the 6th June, 1889, I obtained near here, a number of D. capsophila 

 larvae feeding on Silene maritima. I brought them home and by the 

 beginning of July they were full fed and entered the chrysalis state 

 about the 6th of that month. On the 1st August, looking into my 

 larva cage, I was surprised to find that five had emerged. Generally 

 the larvae of this insect taken in June or July remain in the pupae 

 state through the winter.— PI. Shortridge Clarke, Douglas, Isle of 

 Man. 



Tephrosia biundularia emerging in August.— Referring to my 

 note on page 172, I would say that a second specimen emerged on 

 1st September. — John E. Robson, Hartlepool. 



