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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
turning for my net to catch him I saw 
that there was a little swarm of them 
flying about me, and as fast I could take 
them they continued to come round me 
as long as I continued lying ou the 
ground; when I got up, thinking to take 
them better, their interest in me seemed 
to cease, and I could take but few, and 
by six o’clock there was not a specimen 
to be seen : but I had secured about 
forty: it was about five o’clock when I 
first discovered them. I cannot under- 
stand what attracted them ; there did not 
seem to be any females about, at least I 
could see none, nor any cases, and the 
specimens I have bred do not seem to 
care much about the females, and after I 
got up they did not swarm any longer 
about the spot where I had been lying: 
they flew so close about me that I could 
hardly net them without hitting my face 
and head, and when I had boxed some 
of them in tin boxes, and laid them on 
the ground, other specimens flew about 
them, and seemed to be trying to get into 
the boxes. I may as well mention that 
I have none to spare now of any of the 
above, and if I had there is no time for 
exchanging or even answering letters. 
In the ‘ Intelligencer’ (No. 15), I see a 
notice of A. P.ictaria, from M. G uenee’s 
work, staling that he never took it in the 
day time: I may mention that I took a 
specimen from a bush on Dartford Heath 
one sunny afternoon last April, and took 
it as it flew. — Ibid. 
Procris Globularicc. — Globularicc this 
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year came out at Hollingbury Vale about 
the 7th of June; it is far commoner half 
way (or more) up the Down before the 
brow on the right-hand side as one enters 
from the Lewes road: at the top, and 
high up beyond the brow, one catches 
Statices (peculiarly small) but very few 
Globularice. I may mention that I took 
two specimens of Globularicc at Holling- 
bury Hollow’, on the opposite side of the 
hill, distant about a mile from its usual 
locality : and at the latter spot P. Adonis 
was in great abundance, so that if you 
caught a female it was sure to be the 
right one as no other “ Blue” was there. 
— H. G. Knaggs, M.D., 1, Alaldon Place , 
Camden Town, N. IV. 
Agrophila Sulphuralis and Ban/cia 
Bankiana. — I have just visited Brandon, 
where I met with this pretty species, and 
intend to go and try my luck there again. 
I have taken two specimens of Ban/da 
Bankiana in rather wasted condition in 
a bog near here.— W. Winter, Run- 
worth, Norfolk ; June 28. 
Laverna Phragmitella. — Yesterday I 
I bred six specimens of this insect from 
the heads of Typha. — Ibid. 
Botys Lancealis. — We have been re- 
cently rather fortunate with this insect, 
and have some good duplicates on hand. 
We should be glad to exchange with 
anybody for any of the following insects, 
which are ranked among our desiderata: 
A, 20, 24, 38, 53, 94, 95, 100, 101, 102, 
108, 109, 115, 119, 122, 125, 127, 128, 
131, 136, 138, 142, 151, 152, 155, 156, 
157,259, 160, 172, 188. — Murray A. 
Mathews, Raleigh, near Barnstaple; 
June 28. 
Phibalapteryx Fluviata. — I took, on 
the 9th inst., a male specimen of this in- 
sect: it therefore appears to be double - 
brooded as well as Gemmaria. It seems 
very peculiar that all the specimens of 
Fluviata that have been taken in England, 
as far as I am aware, are males, and all 
the specimens of Gemmaria females. I 
should be glad to hear if any one has 
met with female specimens of Fluviata or 
male specimens of Gemmaria. Or are 
the two species only oue, and the dif- 
ference in the markings only sexual? I 
should feel obliged if any of the readers 
of the ‘Intelligencer’ could afford me 
anything respecting the food and time of 
appearing of F. Sodaliana : I took a 
specimen of this rarity last season, but 
as I did not recognise it, but confused it 
with another species, I am not sure when 
