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Colias Edusa at Iluddersfield.—Vie have liad quite a little company of Colias 

 Edusa visiting our neighbourliood during the last fortnight. Mr. S. L. Mosley 

 recorded it a few days ago from Primrose Hill. A gentleman brought one to the 

 Naturalists' Society for exhibition and naming which, after considerable difficulty, 

 he had captured at Kirkheatou. He had also noticed one at Dalton passing fleetly 

 on the wing. 



Another gentleman described a butterfly he had chased at Birkby, but failed 

 in netting, or I should say hatting. From the description he gave me of the 

 insect, I should not hesitate in pronouncing it Edusa. I had the good fortune also 

 to see one scamping heedlessly over some clover fields a little outside the town of 

 Kidderminster. We can but hope our visitor will ultimately prove a resident. 

 What about tlie Septennial theory ?— S. D. Baiestow, Woodland Mount, Hudders- 

 field : June 20ih, 1877. 



Colias Edusa near Manchester. — In the first week in June, a specimen of Colias 

 Edusa flew past me as I was walking to the city. — F. Kendeedine, Morningside, 

 Old Trafford, Manchester : -ith July, 1877. 



Colias Edusa in Worcester sJdre. — This insect, so far as my experience extends, 

 is by no means common here ; I have seen not more than thirty specimens in as 

 many years' collecting. The first seen occurred in June, 1858, a (J and a ? ; the 

 female worn, the male with its wings reduced to a few strips, rendering its flight a 

 mere flutter about a foot above the earth. The species was rather common at the end 

 of the summer and autumn of tlie same and following year (1859). One male (the 

 largest I ever saw) was seen by me in September, 1867, close to the town ; one male 

 cauglit on the 14th September, 1876 ; and one, also a male, in good condition (this 

 I could see, as it was hovering at a flower about four feet from me) seen on the 11th 

 June last. — J. E. Fletchee, Pitmaston Koad, Worcester : July Qth, 1877. 



Colias Edusa and Hyale in Cumberland. — Colias Edusa has been very common 

 here during the latter half of June. On the 30th, I caught two specimens, both 

 males, and in very fine condition, many which I saw both before and after were 

 also in excellent condition. On the above-mentioned date, I took also a battered 

 sijecimen of Ilyale. On the 5th July, the day being very fine and warm, I visited 

 the places where Edusa seemed specially abundant, but did not see one. — Alfred 

 Thoenley, Workington, Cumberland : J^tly llth, 1877. 



[We presume that our correspondent is quite sure that he has not mistaken the 

 var. Helice of C. Edusa for ITyale.^T^DS.'] 



Colias Edusa in Pembrokeshire. — After an exceptionally mild, wet winter, and 

 a long, cliilly, disheartening spring, the weather began to improve with the beginning 

 of June, and, on tlie 4th, our first toarm day, Colias Edusa made its appearance. 

 It was in a warm sheltered valley in the hill country, nearly twenty miles froin here 

 and ten from the sea, that I found the first specimens (two ? and at?) just out and 

 exquisitely perfect, one ? very large and strongly dusted with black on the basal 

 portion of the anterior wings. Two days later, I found several more in one of the 

 deep limestone quarries near the coast, and from that time until the 4th July, they 

 were to be found in moderate numbers all over the country on every sunny day. 



