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3cause I am under the impression that the insect has never been recorded as having 
3curred at Folkestone, and partly on account of the sex of the individual ; female 
nerea not being, T believe, caught every day. — Id. 
Note on Hadena atripUcis, ^"c. — I have lately reared a fine series of Hadena, 
'■.ripUcis, from eggs deposited by a female caught at Cambridge last year. I 
lould not have troubled you with this communication had not a well-known 
ambridge entomologist informed me that his bred specimens of this insect were 
ways both small and badly coloured ; while mine, on the contrary, are of the 
rerage size, and well marked. 
Last week I took a male JT. dominula at Lustheigh, in good condition. From 
le fact that this insect has been captured at Exeter, Teignraouth (i.e., Great and 
ittle Waldon), and that it is common at Ashburton, I am inclined to think it is 
)mmou throughout the moorland parts of the county.— Charles Grinstead, 
orella, Torquay, 22nd June, 1868. 
Results of a day and a night's collecting in Sherwood Forest. — The old forest is 
ow in its glory, and well worth a visit from even the most apathetic of Nature's 
imirers. For miles you may wander among grand oaks, some " stag-horned," 
It majestic in their ruin ; others in the full vigour of life, interspersed with the 
"aceful birch, whose tall, silveiy stems gleam white far away in the distance ; 
ith here and there an alder, mountain-ash, or white-thorn. Few flowering plants 
re seen, the ground being chiefly covered with fern, five or six feet high, or in the 
Den places with tall, waving grass. Among the latter we sprung a few Euthemonia 
i/ssula, all apparently fresh from the pupae : they were easily caught, flying very 
bzily. A. Adippe was just out, but in the glowing sunlight a chase was not very 
2;reeable : we got, however, about a dozen specimens. From the oaks we beat 
few specimens of Conopalpus testaceus, and a single example of Phlceotyra 
ifipes. The mountain ash gave us Rhynchites cupreus. Wading through 
le fern was no joke, and we hailed with joy the spire of Edwinstowe Church 
seping through the trees. After lunch, we re-opened our campaign, but, with 
le exception of a single specimen of Conopalpus Vigorsii, and a pair of Drepana 
Icataria and of Hepialus velleda, nothing of much importance fell to our lot. 
bere was a perfect jjlague of flies ; the only remedy was a vigorous fumigation, 
id I should advise all entomologists who come this way to remember theii' pipes. 
s evening drew on, we obtained a good many fair specimens of Cyhosia mesomella 
fing in the open places ; and at sugar, among hosts of common things, we got 
hyatira hatis and derasa, Neuria saponarice, and two Hadena contigua. One tree 
ierally swarmed with the male Lampyris noctiluca ; as fast as we could bottle 
lem they came flying : we saw but one female, and she was accompanied by four 
• five males. We intend to try the bark in a few weeks, and will report progress. 
-Richard and William Tyrek, Grove House, Mansfield, June 25th, 1868. 
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he Butterflies of North America ; with coloured drawings and descriptions. By 
rM. H. Edwards. Philadelphia : the American Entomological Society. London : 
riibner & Co., Paternoster Row. 
