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tember 18th, and on October 3rd, on a walk along the parades and 

 the Downs as far as Cow Gap, perhaps half-a-dozen were seen. 



Polygoma c-album. — September 18th was a brilliant day and a 

 red-letter day for Vanessids. During the morning a stranger was 

 noted among the atalanta that were feasting at the Michaelmas 

 daisies in the garden, and on a net being procured and the stranger 

 secured, it proved to be a very nice c-albtim. A second specimen 

 was taken on the same or following day in a garden at Hampden 

 Park, an outlying part of the town some two miles inland. So far 

 as I am aware, Sussex was at no time a home of this species, not 

 even in the early years of last century, when there appears to have 

 been well-established colonies in some other of the southern 

 counties, but stray examples have from time to time occnrred, the 

 last previous record, I believe, being one at Dormans, a village just 

 on the Surrey border of the county, on September 11th, 1906. It 

 would be interesting to know whence these stray individuals come : 

 of course, there is always the chance of an escape from someone's 

 breeding-cage, or the result of an attempt to acclimatize the species 

 in the neighbourhood, a most unsatisfactory proceeding unless the 

 fact is widely published, but on the other hand there is the 

 possibility of a migration from some other place, in an endeavour 

 on the part of the species to extend its range of distribution under 

 natural conditions. 



FJpinephele jurtina {janira) was met with commonly throughout 

 the district during July, August, and the earlier part of September, 

 but thinned down towards the end of the month; the last seen was 

 a solitary one in Cow Gap on October 3rd. During the earlier part 

 of the time it was a frequent visitor to the garden. 



Epinephele titkonns. — A few were noted on August 8th in Cow 

 Gap. 



Ccenonympha paw})hiliis | Were all fairly common during 



Rumicia {Chrysoj^haniis) phl(ras,r the earlier part of the time and 

 and Polyouimatus icarns. ] not infrequent visitors to the 



garden. The two latter were seen last on October 3rd. 



Celastrina aryiolus was fairly common in the garden and about 

 the ivy-covered walls along the parades on August 2nd, but had 

 decreased considerably in numbers by the 8th. The species did not 

 appear at any time to be so abundant as in some recent years. 



Afiriades coridon. — It was not until August 8th that I had an 

 opportunity of visiting the parts of the Downs where this species 

 occurs, and I then found it verv commonly, and as a rule the 

 specimens were fresh. Little difterence in numbers or their con- 

 dition was noted on subsequent visits up to September 18th. Soon 

 after this some unsettled weather set in, with a fair amount of rain 

 and chilly northerly winds, and on my next visit on the 26th 1 

 failed to detect any, but on October 3rd, during a few hours' of hot 

 sunshine and calm weather I found one undoubted female although 

 no males were on the wing. 



