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when in company with Mr. Kirby. 
It remains unique (as British)- to this 
day : but I have a foreign male, and 
saw a foreign female in the College 
Museum at Edinburgh. Limnobia 
ornata I once found in plenty at Black- 
gang Chine, Isle of Wight, and one 
or two at Torquay, and one also near 
Ilfracombe, Devon. This year I took 
for the first time an insect new to me, 
three or four males and one female of 
Rhamphidia Jlava ! (I believe). 
Limnobia Lateralis, Meg. (and 
Walker p. 304) is tolerably plentiful 
here, though considered very local. 
Described in Annual and Mag : Nat : 
Hist: V. 8., p. 430 ) Walker says, 
“Not common,” but in many instan- 
ces my experience is different from 
his as to the rarity or non-rarity of 
species. 
Limnobia sex-guttata Hal : Walker 
p. 303, and PI 27 (not Sex-maculata 
Hcg.J Annual of Nat. Hist. vol. 8. 
where it is fully described, and Mr. 
Haliday says “ it the prettiest Tipula 
he has seen.” This I used to take at 
the “Quag” some years ago, but i^, 
having been drained, there are none 
to be seen there. 
I had however taken it in the New 
Eorest and also at Charmouth and 
attached to the Cotton-rush. This is 
Photographed as well as Symplecta ? 
alpina female, which is unique as far 
as I can ascertain and one of the 
grandest Captures I have made of late 
years. I took it by brushing the 
rough grass by the side of the rivulet 
. under the bridge on the high road by 
Kirkstone leading from Ambleside to 
Dlleswater, June 5th, 1857. When 
at Ambleside in July, 1861, the 
weather was very unfavourable and 
I had only an opportunity of trying 
for it again, as our party were on 
their way to Ulleswater. I walked 
up the hills, and looked for insects as 
well as I could ; but the grass was 
very wet and I obtained little worth 
having except a few Nemorcea nitida 
and Leuctra carbonaria. — Limnobia 
Occulta. — I took a single specimen in 
descending from Cader Idris in W ales 
and saw another in descending Erfir- 
fied near Grassmere, which flew over 
a wall and I lost it. I believe Mr. 
Walker also found it in Wales. I 
took a pair of Tipulce on Skiddaw 
which appear to me to be the same as 
Capt. Boss took in the Arctic Begions 
— certainly distinct from montana, 
Curtis ; though I took it at the same 
time and place viz. July 5., 1827. — 
J. C. Dale, Gian. Wootton, Slier- 
borne, Dorset, Oct. 3rd, 1862. 
CIPTURES. 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
Colias Edusa and S. Ferragals. 
This day my boys saw a specimen of 
C. Edusa ? or Hgale : they say it 
looked rather pale : but were unable 
to take it: They took however a 
specimen of Scopula ferrugalis. I took 
one, two or three days since and a 
pair about a week ago. I have not 
seen it before for some years. P ormer' y 
I took it as late as November. — J. C. 
Dale, Gian Wootton, Sherborne, 
Dorset. Oct. 3rd, 1862. 
