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embrey. My great e^ectations of the Barrows were doomed to almost complete 
isappointment ; I got a good series of A. ri^ce, under pieces of wood lying on the 
md, but nothing else worth mentioning. The asylum grounds have proved much 
.ore productive, and the very little time devoted to collecting yielded some good 
ungs. In July a specimen of P. isodactylus was beaten out of a hedge. A day or 
.o later the British specimen of Scoparic ZeiZeri, previously recorded as having 
.en captured by the Rev. E. Horton. appeared at light; and the same agent has 
nee attracted a specimen each of E. fuscantaria, L. cespUis, D. TempU, E. lutu- 
nta,^ and D^asem^a literaUs. These, with a multitude of commoner species, show 
e nchness of the district, and will serve as an incentive to greater eirtioa 
«t^se^a^son.-GEORGE J. HEARDEa. Joint Counties' Asylum, Carmarthen, December 
Colias Hyale new London; abundance of Cynthia cardui, ^c.-A friend of mine 
w a specimen of Colias Hyale (now in my possession) caught in the waste ground 
tween Fmchley and Edgware Road Railway Stations. I have also heard of two 
ler specimens having been taken there, and I was on the spot when another waa 
cen this morning. Colias Edusa is not of unfrequent occurrence in the same place 
aw It also in our garden about the middle of July. 
I suppose that every entomologist and collector has noticed the extreme abun- 
nee of Cynthia cardui all over England this year. In a clover field near KeniL 
rth (where I have been staying during the last month) I and some other col. 
tors who were in the same field caught neariy twenty in one morning; it waa 
3 very common near here last month, but is not taken nearly so frequently now 
1-RNEST B. Bax, 12, Mansfield Villas, Hampstead, September 8th, 1868. 
Occurre^^ce of Tapinostola elymi at Cleethorpe.-I am happy to inform you that 
above-named insect is to be taken freely at Cleethorpe, in Lincolnshire. The 
ra feeds on the sand-reed (Elymus ar enarius), B.nd the perfect insect maybe 
ken out of that plant in the day-time, and is found at rest on it at ni-ht Time- 
beginning to end of July.-JosEPH Chappell, 8, Richmond Street, Greenheys 
ichester, 23rd November, 1868. 
Ewpithecia in-ignata, Sfc, at Olanvilles Wootton.-l have taken here, during 
year, E. irriguata, Macaria alternata, Phycis abietella, &c.; Heliothis dipsacea 
bred on June 4th from a pupa found in October, at Charmouth, amongst 
dot.-CHAS. W. Dale, GlanviUes Wootton, Sherborne, November 12th, 1868. 
Larentia salicata in North Devon—Among some insects taken by my young 
Id Master Arthur Chandler, at Challcombe, North Devon, where he is at 
>o\, I find several specimens of Larentia salicata. These, he tells me were 
:n about a sand-pit on the borders of Exmoor, where they were common ' The 
irrence of this species so far south seems worth recording. These show hardly 
variation from northern specimens.— Chas. G. Barrett, Norwich. 
Abundance of the larvw of Botys asinalis near Bishopstowe.-Rubia peregrina 
ood-plant of B. asinalis. is very abundant on the rocks and in the hed-es just 
y Bishopstowe, and there is scarcely a plant but has been attacked^by the 
e; the white patches caused by them in the dark green leaves of the plant are 
> a featm-e in the laudscape.-E. Horton, Powick, Worcester, Nov. 16f?t 1868 
