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three only emerged. A tine female Heliophobns hispidus was bred on 

 September 23rd, from a larva taken at Pleinmont. 



I would conclude these very unsystematic notes with a few general 

 observations about certain butterflies. 



Goneptery.r rhaiinii. — Saw one male August 13th, and a female on 

 ■23rd. This is a very scarce insect here, and I suspect an immigrant. 



Vanesxa io. — I saw one on August 14th. This, too, is a species 

 that I can hardly think is always with us. For years together it is not 

 seen, and when seen, only one or two in a season. I do not think I 

 could have taken, had I wished it, ten specimens in the 35 years I have 

 Jived here. 



P. atalanta. — Has been very abundant. 



Pyrameis cardiiL — Promised well in the spring — hibernated speci- 

 mens were common. The autumn emergence seems to have been 

 small. 



PolyoimiiatKx icari{s. — The females of the second brood were remark- 

 ably fine — blue forms — of hundreds that I saw on one day feasting on 

 wild thyme, August 26th, I only observed one female of the broivn 

 form. 



Pieiis bra^sicae. — Strange to say my best catch this season was a 

 female with a widened black border of forewings with extended dashes 

 to the two black spots on the disk — these are also united by a black 

 suffusion. The whole of the base and the costa are also exceptionally 

 dashed with black. It conies very near var. irullastoni, as depicted by 

 Seitz, from Madeira, the additional markings make it a very handsome 

 insect. 



Colias eihisa. — One only have I seen, and it was gone before I could 

 identify the sex. 



Aricia medon. — As usual was very scarce. 



Pldu'iiis aeijon {arijus). — Though it does occur I did not meet 

 ■with it. 



Callophnjs ritbi.—Onv only " Hairstreak " was not abundant. 



Of " Skippers," strange to say, we have none. 



Melitaea cin.ria. — I am very glad to be able to report that this 

 species shows no signs of diminution in numbers, rather, I think, it 

 was more abundant than in many recent years. It was late. I was 

 not on the cliffs in time to chronicle its first appearance, which is 

 generally the last week of May, but it was at its height nearly three 

 weeks later than usual, viz., about June 30th. 



Hipjiarchia scinele. — Was excessively common — it is generally of 

 small size in Guernsey, and this year was no exception. 



Epinepltelc jnvtina. — The abundance of this species was perhaps the 

 most remarkable. A patch of ragwort some twelve feet across, one 

 morning, I found alive with butterflies. They were literally in hun- 

 dreds. I examined them carefully for aberrations, and all y\eve jurtina 

 with the exception of a single male /■-'. tithouKs. 



Correction. — The persistence of error, in spite of persistence of 

 editorial struggle, is w^ell exemplified in line 4 of page 2-11 where "Mr. 

 Lachlan" should of course be "Mr. McLachlan." — II. J. T. 



