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neyer went to the Verbenas and Petunias, 
and those that went to the PetuTlias never 
went to the PLlox. My brother told you, 
I believe, about Plusia Orichalcea occur- 
ring here ; I had the pleasure of seeing 
it, for the first time, as I was watching 
a quantity of “Admirals” flying about 
the Eupatoria cannahinum ; it was 
sunning itself on the same plant. — 
C. M. Perkins, Woolton-under-Edpe ; 
October 13. 
A Visit to Lulworth Cove, — On the 
25th of August a parly of four of us set 
off, early in the morning, from Wareham 
to West Lulworth, alias Lulworth Cove, 
alias the Burning Cliff, arriving there 
about 8.30 a. m. The day was cloudy, 
and Actecon only came out during the 
sunshine, but even these were very few; 
we only took twelve specimens altogether : 
they were confined to one small hollow in 
the cliff, grown over with long grass, 
thistles and furze; they got down into 
the long grass, and nothing but hot sun- 
shine would bring them out. We caught 
also two specimens of a small dark 
Skipper that you think is a variety of 
P. Actaon, though it is much darker and 
rather differently marked : six specimens 
of this variety were taken last June at 
the back of the hotel at West Lulworth. 
Now', supposing this to be a variety of 
P. Actaon, can it be double-brooded.'* — 
W. C. Tuunkr, 33, Bermondsey Square, 
S.E. 
Coleoptera at Brighton. — To an inci- 
pient metropolitan Coleopterist, the grassy 
South Downs, teeming with natural beetle 
traps of chalk and flint, seem little short 
of a Geodephagous elysium. Imagina- 
tion has, however, in my case, stolen a 
long march upon reality ; since, after a 
week’s hard work (which, if compulsory, 
would have been nnendnrable), to the 
destruction of nails and finger-ends, and 
the actiuisition of a still-present dorsal 
uneasiness through constant stooping, I 
have but the following to enumerate, ex- 
ccjit the most ordinary species, nearly all 
of which were in very small numbers, 
and many only individually: — 
Brachinus crepitans. 
Tarus axillaris. 
Dromius linearis. 
Lebia chlorocephala. 
Cychrus rostratus. 
Carabus catenulatus. 
Leistus spinibarbis. 
„ ferrugineus. 
Licinus depressus. 
Badister bipustulatus, all examples 
of which are quite dwarfs, com- 
pared with ordinary specimens 
from the London district, owing 
perhaps to the absence of con- 
genial willow-stumps and marsh. 
Olisthopus rotundatus. 
Amara obsoleta. 
,, apricaria. 
Harpalus obscurus. 
Zabrus piger, which, earlier in the 
season, must be abundant, as I 
found a dozen or so, more or less 
imperfeet, in the roads; indeed 
the frequent occurrence of indi- 
viduals “caught napping” by pe- 
destrians, and left in an exploded 
state on the paths, fully bears 
witness to the propriety of its spe- 
cific name. 
Bembidium, Anchomenus and Pter- 
ostichus (save the vulgar forms, 
whereof ad nauseam) were not to 
be found. 
It is at all times galling enough to find 
a desideratum defunct and dilapidated ; 
my feelings may therefore be guessed 
when I turned up a positive handfull of 
fragmentary purple elytra and gory wings 
of Chrysomela haimoptera, and soon after- 
wards a dozen soldered bodies of Otio- 
rhynchus fuscipes, too bard for penetra- 
tion by Brachelytrous mandibles, how- 
ever voracious, but bitten through at the 
thorax, and quite hollowed out, showing 
that “ beetles at home” (as mentioned by 
Mr. Douglas) and “ beetles abroad ” have 
the same propensities. The frciiuent 
