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last week, I saw tlii-ee among the scanty patches of lucerne that grows on the 

 District Railway cutting between Hammersmith and Earls Court Stations. A 

 friend of mine took three Eduna on Barnes Common one day this week, and saw 

 several more. I might mention that last year I saw a male and female Edusa flying 

 together at Chiswick, and succeeded in capturing the former ; but though I have 

 been here many years, and in my early collecting days caught all I could lay hands on, 

 in the hope it would prove " something good," I have never seen Edusa in this neigh- 

 bourhood before. — Heebeet D. Dale, Vicarage, Chiswick : August 2Mh, 1877. 



Colias JEdusa near London.- — In July last, I saw several specimens of Colias 

 JSdiisa flying in this neighbourhood, and the experience of former years led me to 

 expect that the species would be plentiful during the following August. In this I 

 was not disappointed, for on the afternoon of the 4th of that month, on reaching 

 home from the city, I captured a specimen in the garden, which, from its freshness, 

 could only just have emerged. On the following day, being Sunday, on my way to 

 and from church, I counted eighteen specimens, and witliin a few yards of my house, 

 I caught one with my hand, its wings scarcely dry, a most lovely specimen of the var. 

 Helice. Monday being Bank Holiday, I started out, and, in a field at the top of 

 the road from which, at an earlier period of the year, clover had been cut, and 

 which at the time was covered with long grass and scattered tufts of clover, in the 

 space of an hour I caught over two dozen beautiful specimens, and could, had I 

 stayed, no doubt have secured as many more. I have since seen many specimens in 

 the neighbourhood. The frosty nights of the past week do not seem to have affected 

 them, as yesterday I saw four apparently fresh specimens flying in the sunshine, 

 but the inclement weather that has set in to-day will probably bring their flight to a 

 close. Vanessa Atalanta has been abundant here, and V. cardui common. — J. C. 

 Miller, Lynmouth House, Langley Eoad, Elmer's End, S.E. : Sept. 3rd, 1877. 



A Sulalis neiv to Britain. — On June 29th, 1875, I took upon the heath, known 

 as Greenham Common, near Newbury, a specimen of a Butalis, which remains yet 

 undetermined. It was flying low, about sunset. The specimen in question is a 

 little larger than B. senescens : fore-wings greyish-fuscous, with a whitish streak from 

 base nearly to apex up the middle, and a dark spot towards anal angle. Mr. Stainton 

 returned it as perhaps dissimilella, H.-S., which is not at all improbable to be British, 

 and of which the larva feeds on Helianthemum ; but Prof. Zeller declined to give 

 any definite opinion, and seemed to think it might be undescribed. I was unfor- 

 tunately prevented from searching for more this season ; and as my near departure 

 for Australia renders it extremely problematical when I may again have an oppor- 

 tunity of doing so, I think it best to make known these facts in the hope that some 

 one may accept the task. — E. Meyeick, Ramsbury, Uungerford: Sept. 3)-d, 1877. 



Larva of Nepticula quinquella. — The larva of this species, which, so far as I 

 am informed, has hitlierto escaped notice, mines the leaves of oak, preferring low 

 bushes to trees. The mine is very narrow and excessively contorted, as though 

 rolled into a ball, thus occupying a very confined space. The greenish larva may bo 

 distinguished from the other oak-feeding larvae with great ease by the character of 

 the dorsal vessel ; this is very distinct, forming a row of conspicuous dark spots 



