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1434 Maniola Arcanius. In June and July, common in woods.

Polyommatus Arion. In July and August, frequenting woods and fertile meadows, rare.

P. Euphemus. In July: I took a single specimen in a heathy meadow ; it resem- bles the preceding, but is distinct.

P. Erebus. In August : a single specimen taken in a lane.

P. Janus. In July : this species is of the size of Arion, I captured it in a heathy lane.

P. Cyllarus. In May and June, frequenting open places in woods, and meadows in the neighbourhood of woods, but not common.

P. Acis. In summer, very common in meadows and woods.

P. Argiolus. In spring and summer, common everywhere.

P. Icarus. In summer, very abundant in meadows.

P. Argus. In summer, common everywhere. . P. Mgon. In June and July, not uncommon.

P. Circe. In May, and again in summer, not uncommon in meadows.

LyccRna Hipponoe. In June and July, not uncommon in woody meadows.

L. Chryseis. In June and July : I have captured many varieties of this insect near Reinbeck, in the Saxon forest, where it is no rarity.

L. Virgaurece. In July and August, rare in dry meadows.

L. Phlceas. Common throughout the year.

Thecla Ruhi. In May, frequenting meadows and lanes, very common.

T. Quercus. In June and July, near woods, but not common.

T. Betulce. In August and September, very common in lanes and about ditches where there are alder-bushes.

T. Pruni. In June, not uncommon. ^

Hesperia Malvarum. In May, and again at the end of July, not uncommon.

H. Alveolus. In May and June, common everywhere.

H. Tages. Ditto.

H. Paniscus. In May and June, rare, occurs in Niendorff wood.

//. Comma. In summer; frequenting meadows, woods, and lanes, not uncommon.

H. Sylvanus. In summer, common everywhere.

H. Linea. Ditto.

H. Lineola. Ditto. — A. Lamek ; Wartsbeck, near Hamburgh^ June, 1846.

[This list is one of great interest to the English Lepidopterist : the latitude of Hamburgh is the same as that of the middle counties of England, and the face of the country diversified like ours, with woods, meadows, and cornfields ; yet, without any ob- vious cause, the number of species is at least a fourth larger than ours, and some which with us are of excessive rarity, are there extremely common: but if we make the comparison still more rigid, limiting our attention to any spot, as our correspondent has done to the vicinity of Hamburgh, we shall find scarcely forty species or less than half the number our correspondent has enumerated. — Edward Newman].

Do Insects feel or do they not?—The question "Do insects feel or do they not?" having been recently discussed in the ' Zoologist,' I think it is not too late to offer a few observations on the subject, being, as it is, to entomologists, one of real and prac- tical importance. On it depends entirely the use of seeking means for killing insects when captured as quickly as possible, or the utter uselessness of such research. And on it hang many of the arguments to which entomologists are so often exposed when de-