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that’s Haworth’s Angustata! and if it 
goes that way I shall soou be over boot- 
tops. It’s a beauty! and many would 
say the same of me now 1” I observed, as 
I dragged my boots out of the mud, the 
insect having arose again before I got 
within stroke ; but as the evening was 
then quite calm, and the insect did not 
seem to care to leave the swamp, and I 
could not be dirtier if I tried, having 
been through the worst part, I thought 
I would give it a chance for its life, 
whilst I observed its habits. Hitherto 
all the specimens which I have heard 
about or seen have been taken on gas 
lamps or beat out of hedges or bushes; 
thus no one has had a chance to form 
an opinion of the habits of the species. 
With one eye on the insect (now on a 
blade of grass) and the other on my net, 
I lighted a cigarette, and was then proof 
against the British tzetzes. Standing 
mid-leg in the mud, I watched this in- 
sect Hying for pleasure amongst the 
grass and Sparganium ; it continued its 
short flight, alighting on the bare mud, 
it seemed to revel in the moist warmth, 
just like Carabus nitens does; pressing 
its wings now close, now closer, to the 
moist ground; then another short flight 
on the grass, with its wings up, for a 
moment, — down on the ground again, — 
oil' again, — but never above a yard or 
two, and never leaving the swamp; once 
it settled on the flower of Mentha 
agnation, growing at the edge of the 
swamp, and I thought it time to be after 
it. But no! back to the damp, warm 
ground close to me, and I laid my net 
quietly upon it. “ Gone ! How, where, 
when? Ah, there!” Behind me the 
same process was being renewed, but 
the slight disappointment bad done 
its work, and I thought, as we had 
mutually enjoyed ourselves, we would 
go home together! Having secured it, 
I set to work to hunt for more, and, after 
three hours’ careful search, I found 
another at rest under the leaf of Spar- 
ganium. Here then, in swamps, is the 
home of P. angustata (the Fluviata of the 
present day). Let, therefore, those who 
have taken it on lamps or by beating 
search the swamps near ; and, as I have 
known it taken in May by Mr. Diggles 
and Mr. Greening, in June by Mr. 
Harding (see ‘Intelligencer’), in July 
by Mr. Birchall and Mr. Mathews, in 
August by myself, and later in the year 
by Mr. Almond (see * Transactions of 
Northern Entomological Society,’ in the 
‘Zoologist,’ 1858), it appears to be, like 
P. lineolaria, treble- brooded, or it is a 
continuous appearer during the summer 
months, in either case most favourable to 
the assiduous entomologist. I found the 
best way to reach the swamp is by the 
Southport Railway to Crosby Station, 
thence to the shore, when withiu 100 
yards of high-water mark, turn to the 
left ever the sand hills 40 yards, and the 
swamp is before you. — C. S. Gregson, 
Fletcher Grove, Stanley ; Aug. 15. 
Captures near Hammersmith. — I have 
taken specimens of the following species 
at Hammersmith Marshes during the 
last fortnight: — 
C. Elpenor (larva), 
H. Sylvinus (<£), 
N. Geminipuncta, 
N. Typhffi, 
H. Micacea, 
H. Cheuopodii, 
C. Nupla, 
P. Comitata, 
E. Roseana. 
On the 12th I captured a fine C. Edtisa, 
female (var. Helice ), together with three 
males, in the (now abandoned) Chelsea 
Water Works. A larva of Atrnpos was 
found there, but did not fall into my 
hands. On the 15th I met with several 
larvae of B. Somnulenlella between Ham- 
mersmith and Fulham. — H. S. Gorham, 
10, Alfred Street, Montpelier Square, 
Brompton, S. W. ; August 17. 
Lepidoptera at Flamborough Head . — 
The promontory which terminates in 
