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Colias Edusa in Hampshire. — The second brood of C. Edusa is out in great 

 profusion. On Monday, a friend netted, at my request, about seven or eight females, 

 the shabbiest he could see, and one or two of them deposited fifty or more eggs on 

 Lotus corniculatus, and a dozen or so on Trifolium pratense, during a transient gleam 

 of suusliino yesterday. — W. Buckler, Emsworth : \Oth August, 1877. 



Colias Edusa near London. — It may be of interest to record the visit of Colias 

 Edusa to the north of London. One I saw last Sunday, but did not secure ; two 

 others, however, the succeeding Monday, I netted in our garden at Highgate. This 

 is, I believe, their fii'st visit to us since a friend of mine secured five on the railway 

 cutting at Kentish Town, five years ago. — M. J. Michael, Cholmeley Park, High- 

 gate, N. : August 9th, 1877. 



Colias Edusa near London. — I have been looking for the appearance of the second 

 brood of this butterfly. I saw a fine, fresh specimen in my garden on Saturday, 

 August 4th, another the day after ; my wife saw two at Hampton on the 6th, and I 

 saw one near Sunbury same day. — George Lewis, Putney : August 7th, 1877. 



Colias Edusa in London. — During the present week, I have seen several speci- 

 mens of Colias Edusa in the gardens on the Thames Embankment, near Charing 

 Cross. — A. H. JoxES, Eltham : 17th August, 1877. 



Colias Edusa at TFarwicJc. — C. Edusa, although very rare in this neighbourhood 

 in ordinary years, has been very abundant this season. My son and several of his 

 friends have taken more than forty specimens, and have seen many more. According 

 to their accounts, it appears to be more common than the white butterflies, and the 

 specimens taken are very fine and in good condition. — J. S. Balt, The Butts, 

 Warwick : I3th August, 1877. 



Notes on the two broods of Colias Edusa in Sussex. — The last C. Edusa of the 

 early brood was seen and captured by me here, on the 12th of July, a worn and 

 weary male. On the 30th July, I observed many specimens of the second brood ; 

 the insect is again quite abundant. — Henry S. Gorham, Shipley, Horsham : 

 July 31st, 1877. 



Variety of Limenitis Silylla.—\Yhi\st collecting in the New Forest, Hants, 

 during the past month, my father took a beautiful variety of this species ; the upper- 

 side being entirely black, with the exception of a white dot on the middle of the 

 inner margin of the fore-wings, whilst the under-side is richly coloured with black, 

 red, and white, hardly a trace of the normal form being visible. — William Watkins, 

 Shepherd's Bush : July 20lh, 1877- 



Notes on Hesperia Actmon. — The occun'cnce of H. Actceon in a new locality on 

 the Dorsetshire coast was recorded by Mr. Parmiter in " The Entomologist " for 

 1870 ; but as no particulars of the locality were published, and as the species has 

 been considered so excessively local in this country, a few notes on the subject may 

 be of interest. 



