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of tlie town, for I took it on all sides, and 
it occurred plentifully also in a village 
six miles south of the town : there are 
several enloinologists iu this neighbour- 
hood, who have been collecting for many 
years, but I cannot find that any of them 
have ever seen it in this locality previous 
to this year, except one gentleman, who 
saw (I think he told me in 1842) a single 
specimen fly across his lawn : one gentle- 
man wrote to tell me he had taken seven- 
teen specimens, all males; I myself have 
taken about twenty males, and only two 
females, and might have taken as many 
more males, if I had wished: other 
people took the males in about the same 
proportion as myself. About twelve spe- 
cimens of Cynthia Cardui have been 
taken this season : I have never seen but 
one taken here before (in 1854). G. C- 
album has been very common this year, 
but 1 have not killed many, on account 
of finding them much injured: on the 
6ih of this mouth I captured a fine spe- 
cimen feasting on a bunch of grapes: 
I have taken nearly all of them in 
the afternoon, on a white net which 
was protecting some plums against a 
west wall, which alwavs attracted them 
when they came into the garden, and 
I left it after the fruit was gone for 
this purpose. Arge Galalhea has been 
much commoner here than usual ; 
1 have never taken more than three 
or four in a season before this year, 
but even a greedy eiviomologist might 
have been glutted with it this season: it 
occurs on the next spur of the Cotswolds 
in hundreds. Vanessa Fulychloros has 
occurred here, but it is always far from 
common. Nemeobius Lucina made its 
appearance as usual: this pretty little 
butterfly is extremely local ; 1 never met 
with it but iu one spot, and there it may 
always be found at the proper season, 
though it is never common. Polyom- 
malus Alsus has been unusually common. 
F. Corydon, which I have never failed to 
meet with, though anything but common 
previously, I have not caught a glimpse 
of this yetfc. F. Alexis and Ageslis are 
always common, and so are the Frilil- 
laries, Argynnis Fapkia, Adippe and Eu- 
phrosyne. Flipparchia Seinele never oc- 
curs oil our hills, though it may always 
be taken in hundreds on Stinchcombe 
Hill, three miles distant. I have taken 
a variety of Famphilus, with two spots on 
the under side of each fore wing. Thy- 
mele Alveolus is sometimes common ; 
2'hanaos Tages and Parnphila Sylvanus 
very common, but P. Linea is very 
scarce, — I have only taken three speci- 
mens in live years, two of which I ob- 
tained this year. May I call your atten- 
tion to a passage iu your valuable work, 
the ‘ Manual,’ which this locality seems 
to contradict? In vol. i. p. 64, it is 
stated that “ In August, too, the second 
brood of T. Tages is of regular occur- 
rence, and that of T. Alveolus is some- 
times met with.” Now I think, in this 
neighbourhood, that T. Alveolus is of 
“regular occurrence” in August, but 
that T. Tages never occurs in that month, 
though it is so common in the middle of 
May that you might, with great ease, 
capiure a hundred a-day. 
Two or three of the Sphinges have 
occurred here. Three larvae of the 
Uealh’s Head w'ere taken in this 
parish, and promised to me, but two 
were accidentally destroyed, and the 
other I luive in the chrysalis state. 
The larva? of S. Ligustri have been com- 
mon, feeding on a shrub which children 
call the “ snowball tree,” from its berries. 
I have taken above twenty of the larvae 
of Chcerocampa Elpenor, and had several 
more brought to me, so that 1 suppose 
the perfect insect must have been com- 
mon, but I have only seen one this year, 
and have never met with it before. 
Macroglossa Stellalarum has come to the 
Phlox in hundreds this season, on which 
it may be captured so easily that I have 
caught it in my hands : I noticed that 
those specimens which went to the Phlox 
