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loose again. I see Mr. Birchall only records this species as Irish from Wicklo- 
L. marginata, C. ferrugata, C. suffumata, P. gamma-1 each. 
The only other species seen during my stay at Castle Connell were 1 
suhtr^stata, at Glenenomeragh ; S. popuU, in pupa; 0. Udentata, one pupa sin. 
emerged ; B. quercus or callun^, still in pupa, and two other pup^ I do not 'reco. 
nise, and from which the images have not yet emerged. In the woods, too I sa 
a few micros, but my indifferent eyesight quite precludes my attempting tl 
cap ure of these beautiful atoms. -Hekbk.t Maksben, Secretary, Lepidopterist 
Exchange Club, Gloucester, May \\th, 1869. 
Great ahundance of Vanessa ca^dui in 1868, ^c.-Observing Mr. Bax's note o> 
h,s subject, it occurs to me that some of your readers may be interested in one c 
two jottmgs of a similar kind. 
I spent the month of August last at the delightful Httle watering-place c 
Bournemouth, Hants. Eambling one morning along the beach westward toward. 
Poole, I was astonished to find F. ca.dui, in abundance, flying about in the he 
sunshme, over a district covered with hills of blown sand, just adjoining Pool 
harbour. It would have been a comparatively easy task to capture fifty of thes 
msec s most of them in fine condition; but being merely a co^^ecW and not 
slaugUerer I took only the few that I required. I saw scarcely any other specie 
ofLep^doJptera at the same place and time ; but Megcra, Tithonus, and Semele war 
very abundant in the neighbourhood of Bournemouth 
Thorl; hI'V "'' '" '^ ^^^^-^. H. GKos.. Vernon Cottage 
Note on the jpaucity of insects.-l am afraid we are to have a poor season ; w. 
have as yet found everything very scarce ; even the commoner species have noi.- 
putm at all m many cases. A friend and I were out last night for a walk ir 
he ram, and found two dead s.allo.s on the road. I opened one, and founc 
ZZITZ. ""'''' ^^^-^°^^— einsectsmustbe. Ihavenodoubt 
Terrace,' Y^r '"' "'" ^'^^ "' '^^'-^- '^ ^^^^'^^™^' ^^^b— 
a frienf 'f '" '""!r' ''"'" -Yesterday mo.-ning I saw on the setting-board ofc' 
a fnend of mme m this town, two D. Uneata (Uvornica), which had been brought' 
Oh ..,,.. ,, , ,3^ ,,^3. ,^^ _ ^^^^^^ ^^ a greenhouse, an th otS 
I beheve, among trefoil or lucerne which was being thrown into a hay-loft. Thd^ 
condition IS fair, but not first-rate, and I think they are evidently hybernated ^ 
T .. """L'^'f '" °' ''" '■"' 'P'"^^ '^^"^ *"^^'«^ - -^^^ - t^^e year before - 
I thought perhaps it might be worthy of a note in the Ent. Mo. Magazine -J H T 
Jenner, Lewes, Mai/ 27t7i, 1869. ' ■■^' 
Note ontne Mack variety of MrpUdasis Letularia.-Last autumn, at the usual,| 
hT 25th ? W '™ °' ^- '^^"^"^'^ '• '' "^^ ^'--* fawn-coloured. On 
eixough.-R. C. R. Jordan, Edgbaston, Birmingham, 28th May, 1869. 
