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ire their usual time. Altogether, I think we may consider it a very good season 
we take as a criterion the occurence of such rarities as A. Lathonia, P. DaplidAce, 
'. lineata, D. Barrettii, &c., and the abundance of those generally scarce insects, 
. Iris, C. Eyale, &c. — indeed, this appears to have been a wonderful season for 
iitterflies. This district, however, is not rich in Diurni, and we have nothing to 
Dast of in that respect, but my friend Mr. Wm Lello had the good fortune to meet 
ith a iine specimen of C. Edusa, var. Uelice, on the Sandhills at Wallasey on the 
Lth August ; this specimen is smaller, and not as dark as those taken in the south, 
i is very extraordinary that it should have occurred here, since the typical Edusa 
hardly ever met with in this locality, and has not been seen this year. 
On the same day I obtained, by " raking " a sand bank, a wonderful variety of 
. car did, a description of which 1 hope to give in the nest number. 
In this district sugaring was not of much use dui-ing the summer months, on 
jcount of the wind being generally unfavourable — indeed, we have not had a single 
kvourable evening since the end of August. The ragwort flowers, usually such a 
ae bait, seemed to have lost their attractiveness, perhaps through the excessive 
rought. 
I have taken several pretty good insects in this district this season, among 
hich I may mention E. unifasciata (1), E. dolohraria (1), A. sxibsericeata, Eiip. 
ibfulvata, E.fasciaria, C. xerampelina (3), T. suMusa, and I have supplied my 
iends with our noted local insects, such as B. trifolii, M. alhicolon, L. Utoralis^ 
. corticea, E. Uchenea, &c. 
Of S. sacraria, which I had hoped to take this season, I did not see a single 
secimen, but my friend, Mr. C. S. Gregson, took a fine one at Wallasey towards 
le end of July. 
My best " take" this season has been a specimen of that great rarity Catocala 
■axini — unfortunately it is in a very dilapidated state. I took it at sugar in East- 
and Wood on the 12th inst., and so little did I expect such an insect on that 
p^eniug, that when I saw it at a distance I made sure it was a bat, as I had seen 
3veral flying about at twilight, and I knew these little animals sometimes indulged 
I the sweet intoxicant so attractive to their prey, the moth. 
The same evening Mr. Lello, who was with me, took a fine specimen of X. gU- 
%go, a species which has not hitherto been captured in this locality. I dare say 
'e should have been more successful had the wind not been N.E. — E. L. Eagonot, 
30, Conway Street, Birkenhead, September 18th. 
Note on the ovipositing of Paniphila Sylvanus. — As I was resting awhile on the 
barren, last July, with a perfect shower of butterflies round me, I had a good 
pportunity of watching a ? P. Sylvanus deposit her eggs. She flew fi'om one stem 
f gi'ass to another several times, as if she were rather particular in her selection, 
nd, having found a suitable one, she slid gently down it. The movement was so easily 
et so qiiickly done, that I could scarcely see whether it was performed by means of 
be legs or the wings, but I rather think the former. When she was gone I opened 
tie sheath formed by the leaf round the stem, and found therein about thirty small 
rhite eggs deposited in a line, — Henry Ullyett, Folkestone. 
Deilephila lineata at Newport, I. W.—On August 11th I caught a specimen of 
')eilephila lineata, rather faded, hovering over a bed of geraniums in the twi- 
