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being unable to revisit the spot, I had to be content with a very short 
series, but in fine condition. I may here add that it is a real pleasure 
to me, in these days of alterations in so many old “ happy hunting 
grounds ” beloved by the old collectors, to be able to confirm one of the 
old 1( calities given in our useful and standard work Newman’s British 
Butterflies^ which, if re-edited and altered to suit the extinction of many 
old localities, and, what is more pleasant to record, the discovery of 
many new ones, would be of much greater interest at the present day. 
I lived in hopes of seeing a stray Hesperia pa?iiscus in the miscellaneous 
series sent me from Wychwood, on the faith of Newman's localities, 
but my own experience is to the effect that it does not now exist there. 
My own first visit was to Guernsey (June ist), where, however, owing to 
business, I was unable to do any collecting for a few days. I soon, 
however, discovered my previous locality for Melitoea cinxia, and in 
several visits secured a fine series, including a good var., as noted in the 
Record^ vol. ii., p. 87. I was told later on that this species was rather 
more plentiful than usual this season in the Isle of ^Vight, in a very 
restricted locality on the coast near St. Catherine’s Point. I did not go 
across although in the island at the time, as I trust the temporary 
cessation of the too close attention of the collector, may result in its 
establishing a more firm footing again on this side. Sugar was very 
attractive during June in Guernsey, we always worked flower-heads, 
which, in my own experience, especially near the sea, prove more 
attractive than the old tree trunks, and to me, very naturally so. The 
only rarities, however, were five specimens of a Caradrina^ similar to 
those already recorded by me as C. ajfibigua from Guernsey and the 
Isle of Wight (Record, vol. i., p. 249). These I have not yet had the 
opportunity of submitting to Mr. Tutt. Two were taken i6th June, 
two i8th June, and the last a day or so later, when accompanied by Mr. 
W. A. Luff. The other species were Noctua plecta, N. rubi, Agrotis piita, 
Miana strigilis, and many commoner species. During this visit I also 
found a new locality for Procris statices, which, in Mr. Luff’s experience, 
shifts its quarters by short distances every season, as noted by Miss 
Kimber in our June No. (p. 89). It had a most strange liking for the 
steeper parts of the cliffs, here covered by a mass of blossom principally 
large dog-daisies, and is, in its habits of flight, very similar to the 
“ Burnets.” Although not very bright weather, the species was not so 
sluggish as they, and was not altogether easy to capture, owing to the 
face of the cliffs being so very steep. I was disappointed in not taking 
a series of Nola confusalis, which I met with the previous season in Sark, 
and although unable to visit that island, I had hoped to find it in 
Guernsey ; my take was, however, confined to a single specimen. 
We arrived in the Isle of Wight, June 20th, and during the ensuing" 
week I think I got more thorough wettings than ever before, in fact, 1 
got to regard a heavy storm as the usual adjunct to an evening in the 
woods. These proved fatal to the condition of the very delicate little 
Acidalia emutaria, which, in the best of weather, is apt to get worn 
almost the first evening. They were plentiful, however, on the marsh 
with the usual embarrassing numbers of the commoner Geometers, such 
as lodis lactearia, etc. During that week I also netted a pair of Phiba- 
lapteryx lignata. Sugar now began to fail, although for the first few 
nights Xylophasia hepatica appeared in plenty, with Aplecta nebulosa, of 
