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do all they can to destroy them. They are often found, like the stoat, to 

 be minus a leg, for if caught in a trap by the leg, they frequently release 

 themselves by biting off the leg close to the trap, thus enabling them to 

 escape. A stoat that was caught in this way a short time ago only 

 possessed one leg, having had to sacrifice the other three to save its life. 

 It is a pity that this martyr of a stoat's life was not spared, as it could 

 not have done much harm in the way of destroying game, and would have 

 to be contented with mice, rats, worms, &c., for its diet. I have lately 

 obtained a fine pair of weasels wiiich were caught by a cat at Ryther. 

 Both stoats and weasels are rather plentiful in the rocky neighbourhood 

 of Adel, but the place where they are to be seen in greatest numbers is at 

 Bishop's Wood, near Selby, where on my last visit I counted above 200 

 specimens hung up at the storekeeper's museum. — Walter Raine, Leeds, 

 August 13th. 



Captures in the New Forest. — I had a few days at Brockenhurst last 

 week. Larvae were very plentiful, and included Lithosia quadra, JDemas 

 coryli, Cleora glabraria, Nola strigula, Notodonta i/i^epida, chaonia and 

 dodonoea, Cymatophora ridens and flavicornis, Liparis monacha, Trachcea 

 piniperda, Ennomos erosaria and tiliaria, and many other commoner 

 species. Of imagos I took Limenitis Sibylla, Argynnis Valezina (5), 

 Adippe and Selene, Pieris cratcegi (one worn-out specimen), Lyccena 

 ^gon, Macaria alUrnata (a worn female specimen), Eupithecia succentu- 

 riata, Emmelesia alchemillata, Cidaria picata, Melariippe rivata and 

 unangidata, Zygcena meliloti, Eulepia crihrum, Lithosia mesomella, &c. 

 I also saw three empty chrysalis cases of Apatura Iris found by other 

 collectors, two on one twig of narrow-leaved sallow, the third by a lady 

 close to where I was standing, in New Park enclosure. — J. P. Barrett, 

 London, July 21st. 



Welsh Butterflies. — As Mr. Bairstow asks the experience of others 

 in the Naturalist for June, I send you a few particulars of the butterflies 

 which I have taken in Wales. Argynnis Paphia and Aglaia, common near 

 Tenby, South Wales, Aug., 1871 ; A. Euplirosyne, near Llandindrod 

 Wells ; V. Atalanta, common ; Satyrus ^geria, common : S. Megcera, 

 common ; S. Semele, very common on rough grounds near Tenby, South 

 Wales, 1871 : S. J anira, common ; S. Tithonus, very common round 

 Tenby — I took a bleached variety in August, 1871, on Penally Marsh, 

 near Tenby, vide Entom., Yol. xi., p. 228 ; S. Hyperanthus, saw several 

 specimens near Tenby, Aug., 1871 ; Chortohius Pamphylus, common ; 

 Polyommatus phloeas, common near Tenby ; L. Alexis, also common near 

 Tenby on above date (saw a hermaphrodite specimen, alive, taken there) ; 

 L. argiolus, common round Tenby and at Carew Castle. — (I have seen 

 this species flying round the ivy on the trees growing on the cliff) ; Antho- 

 charis cardamines, very common at Llandrindod Wells ; Eesperia Tagesy 

 several specimens at Llandrindod Wells — Geo. W. Oldfield, The Cedars, 

 Harrogate, June 30th. 



