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Colias edusa. — In a clover-field near this place my friend Mr. Bull took 

 five male specimens of Colias edusa, during the last week of August. — Aethub 

 L. Simpson, Stowmarket, September 13th., 1858. 



S. convolvuli. — I beg here to record my second capture of S. convolvuli. 

 I took a female before breakfast, resting on a ladder full in the sun, on 

 the 1st. of this month. Through the recommendation of the Rev. H. H. 

 Crewe, I placed it in a hat-box, hoping it would lay its eggs, of which it 

 was very full, without injuring itself; but to my disappointment even on the 

 8th. no eggs were laid, but the insect was spoiled. — Idem. 



Vanessa antiopa. — This rare and beautiful insect has, I have no doubt, 

 occurred this year in rather greater numbers than usual, for the following 

 have come under my notice in this neighbourhood: — One taken by Arthur 

 Gruggen, Esq., at Barmby Moor, near Pocklington. One seen by Miss 

 Cornelia and Miss Hose Morris, near Kilnwick Percy; one seen by them also 

 at Emswell, near Driffield. One taken in the town of Beverley, at a sugar- 

 cask in a cooper's yard; and one captured at Lockington, near Beverley, 

 and obligingly sent to me alive by some unknown contributor there, who desired 

 me to address her as "An Old "Woman, Post-office, Lockington." — P. O. 

 Moeeis, Nunburnholme Rectory, September 17th., 1858. 



Acherontia atropos. — The larvse of this great moth seems to have been unusually 

 plentiful this year. In addition to the one mentioned in a previous number, 

 I have since obtained one from Mrs. Conyers, of Emswell, near Driffield. I 

 have heard of others in various parts of the county; and Mr. James Coutts 

 writes me word of one found at Govan, Glasgow. It was found naturally 

 on the potatoe, but it may be useful to many who hereafter keep them, as 

 potatoe leaves cannot always be obtained, especially when the plants are 

 diseased late in the year, to know that it fed well on the lettuce. It also feeds 

 on the tea- tree and the jasmine. The one in question seems to have caused 

 great speculation in the worthy city of Glasgow, as I learn from some para- 

 graphs from' the "Glasgow Herald," sent me by Mr. James Coutts, of that 

 city. It was exhibited as a wonder, and a charge of two-pence was made 

 for a sight of it! This reminds me of a village I have heard of in Dorset- 

 shire, which, I .believe, to this day goes by the name of "Monster" so-and-so, 

 whatever the proper name is, which I forget. It appeared that on some 

 occasion an itinerant fishmonger going that way, dropped by accident a live 

 crab in the road, and no creature of the kind having been seen there before, 

 the first peasant who saw it reported to the village that a monster was to 

 be seen, in which opinion his fellow-townsmen, who thereupon trundled 

 out "en masse" to see it, incontinently joined, and so gained for their local 

 habitation the addition to its name of the "sobriquet" I have spoken of. — P. 

 O. Moeeis. 



Acherontia atropos. — Is it an unusual thing to take Acherontia atropos in 

 the spring? for I have one that was taken on the 15th. of April last, 

 attracted by the street lamps. — P, E. Elliot, Tresilian, Kingsbridge, Devon. 



