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Hymenoptera. — Cephus satyr us, pusillus , and tabidus , abundant at Glan- 
ville Wootton, in 1835. Evania minuta in plenty at Black-Gang-Chine, Isle of 
Wight ; also, Parley Heath, and near Mount Misery, 1835. E. fulvipes, 
one near Christchurch Head, August, 1835. Emmeries atricornis , I have 
seen small round earthen pods on the heath, but never knew what they were 
till this year, when I bred this species, on July 6th. I have taken it as early as 
May 26th, and as late as the end of August, on Parley Heath, New Forest, and 
Ramsdown ; and Captain Bloxner found one or two in Wales. Nomada : I see 
by Captain Blomer’s journal that he bred one ! Sparazion frontale was found 
rather plentifully by Mr. Rudd and myself at Black-Gang-Chine and Parley Heath, 
last August, but not in the New Forest, I believe. Scelio rugolosus is in profu¬ 
sion at Lulworth. I have taken it at Gianville’s Wootton, and other places, not 
uncommonly. 
Hemiptera. — Pentatoma pusilla : I took four specimens in an inclosure in 
the New Forest, June 27,1832. Cydnus dubius taken on the Gog Magog Hills, 
in April, at Portland ferry, by Mr. Streatfield; and I took a pair on Hodd Hill, 
August 19th, 1835. 
There has been some difference of opinion as to whether Lycoena Agestis , 
Salmacis , and Artaxerxes , form three, two, or only one species; I am in fa¬ 
vour of the last, and consider the difference to arise merely from the influence 
of locality, or geographical distribution. The Artaxerxes , I believe, is not found 
south of the Tweed, excepting only one found in Devon, according to Dr. Leach’s 
MSS. But I have observed a few having a slight black pupil to the ocelli, on the 
reverse side; and one I took at Duddingston Loch has it more distinct than some 
of those taken at Newcastle, where it assumes the name of Salmacis ; some 
resembling the former, and some differing but little from our southern species 
(Agestis ) or variety, and which has been supposed by some persons to be 
hybrids. From those who contend for three species, I would request opinions as 
to a specimen lately taken, near Langport, by Edward Paul, Esq., being evidently 
Agestis (a remarkably fine p ) with a more complete white spot, with a black 
pupil, than any I have seen from Newcastle ; and I have a specimen or two shew¬ 
ing a little white cincture to the black spot. Surely it would be going too far to 
make a fourth species; and yet it is better than Salmacis. I think this proves, 
beyond doubt, that they are but one species ; and I think this Langport variety an 
interesting capture. Mr. Bentley has a beautiful variety of Agestis , totally desti¬ 
tute of black ocelli on reverse. The larvae of Butterflies are not very often met 
with, and I should have thought the time to seek for them would be in the sun¬ 
shine ; but by the MSS. of the late Captain Blomer, I find he collected several 
by the use of a lanthorn, such as Hipparchia Galathea, Janira , &c.: and I find, 
also, he bred from larva a specimen of Lyccena Alsus , our smallest British But¬ 
terfly ; and from his journal I should imagine him to have been a most indefati¬ 
gable collector. 
