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Spilosoma. Mr. Bentley bought the specimen of denudatus* of The Entomologi¬ 
cal Transactions , at the sale of the late Mr. Haworth. Penthrophera nigricans , 
I had found previously two larvae enclosed in cases, which I suspected to belong to 
this species, and I found one, August, 1835, on Barley Heath, which, not having 
bred the spring following, I cut open, and found it had changed to &pupa, but had 
died ; which I attribute to the shaking it got on my returning home, on horseback, 
a distance of nearly thirty miles. I hope to ascertain more, against another time, 
about this curious insect. Lohophera polycommata , one taken near Sparkford Inn, 
Somerset, end of February, 1832. In the Linnean Cabinet there is a very large 
specimen of Papilio Podalirius,\ I believe, from North America. Dr. Abbot 
mentions, in his MSS., having taken Pontia Raphani near Bedford, August 6, 
1799. I bought his collection, but I cannot make out which specimen he means 
by it, as there is a variety of Napi and one of Callidice with the name of glacialis 
on it. In the Linnean Cabinet I observed a Hipparchia, with a ticket, on which 
is “ Angl., Hudson, rariss mixed with three or four more under the name Arca- 
nius ; but the one with the ticket has certainly nothing to do with Arcanius , and 
is either a variety of Davus or Polydama, and probably from the neighbourhood 
of Bala Lake, or Pemble Meer. The $ of Lyccena argiolus taken in the 
spring, have a narrow black tip to the superior wings ; that in the autumn, very 
broad. Hesperia comma , taken as early as July 22nd, 1835, on the Blandford 
race course. 
Diptera. — Cecidomya pictipennis I have found as early as February 10th, 
in 1832, on moss, and roots, &c., of Whitethorn. Anisomera ? nigra , a spe¬ 
cies with very long antennae (especially the $ ) found at Kenfig Pool, South 
Wales, by the late Captain Blomer, 1832. Leptomorphus Walkeri , found dead 
in a window, at Blandford. Messala Saundersii I took at Glanville Wootton, 
this spring. Oxycera Leonina : the Rev. F. O. Morris gave me a 5 , and July 
9th last I took a ^ at Charmouth. Oxycera Morrisii , I took one of, at Backs- 
bite, near Cambridge, June, 1833; which is the only locality I know of, besides 
the neighbourhood of Charmouth. Medeterus conspersus, on a boggy part of 
Lewel Heath, near Dorchester, 1835. CEstrus pictus : on the 31st of last July, in 
passing through some high fern near Rufus’s stone, in the New Forest, two insects 
settled before me on the fern, which I missed taking, owing to the stems of the 
fern meeting the net. I thought, at the time, they were the CEstrus pictus. The 
next day, however, one came and settled before me on some dry leaves, near Lynd- 
hurst, which I captured. It varies a little from Mr. Curtis’s figure, having the 
centre of the thorax tawny . Mr. Samouelle’s specimen (figured by Curtis) was 
taken in June. 
* Mr. Raddon has a foreign specimen of denudatus. 
f Mr. Curtis has figured Podalirius on plate 578 of his British Entomology. 
