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and mucli of wliat there is has jilready been mown down ; bnt since the 16th of 

 tliis month I have met w ith C. edusa all over the Island, every little patch of 

 lucerne in bloom holding one or more specimens, and in some of them it may 

 be called quite common, while sporadic examples turn up on the cliffs and else- 

 where. Even on cool dull days the butterfly may be " walked up," often from the 

 bare ground or stubble fields adjoining the lucei-ne, and when thus disturbed is 

 as wild and difficult to seciu-e as in the brightest sunshine. Females as yet are 

 rare, only about half-a-dozen having been seen, and so far C. hyale has not been 

 observed. Travelling yesterday to Ramsgate, I saw a good many specimens of 

 C. edusa on the railway banks beyond Whitstable. Of other butterflies, fresli 

 specimens of Pyrameis cardui and atalanta are now appearing, but are still few 

 and far between ; while Vanessa urticse, which has been phenomenally scarce 

 this year in the Oxford district, appears to be equally so here. Eremohia ochro- 

 leuca is still to be found at rest on the knapweed flowers as of old, but is now 

 mostly the worse for wear. — Jamk.s J. Walker, Sheerness : August 21st, 1913. 



Pyrameis atalanta in North Mavine (Shetland). — On June 13th and on two 

 subsequent days, a fine example of the "Red Admiral" {Pyrameis atalanta) 

 frequented the Manse garden at Ollaberry. On the 13th the insect was 

 under close observation for nearly two hours, and struck one by its fresh 

 appearance. This seems notable in a specimen which nuist siu-ely have been 

 but a casual immigrant. Since coming here in 1910, the only biitterflies the 

 writer has seen have belonged to the Vanessid group. Pyrameis cardui occurred 

 at Ollaberry, 25.vii.ll (Ent. Mo. Mag. p. 217, 1911), and one or two examples 

 were noticed in the following year at about the same time. During the same 

 summer Muly, 1912) Aglais (Vanessa) rt)-<tca3 came under our notice once near 

 Girlsta, by the wayside, some ten miles north of Lerwick.— James Wateeston, 

 The Manse, Ollaberry, Shetland: August, 1913. 



Note on two species of the genus Lophyrus. — In his notes on this genus, the 

 Rev. F. T>. Morice mentions L. virens as received from me. These were bred 

 from two larvae taken by my brother in Berkshire, and are the only specimens 

 I possess. It has not, to my knowledge, occvirred in Essex. Last season I reared 

 both sexes of L. seHifer from larva? found near Colchester (found May 26tli, 

 emerged in September), and a single ^ of the same species was taken by my 

 father many years ago. — Bernard S. Harwood, 62, Station Road, Colchester. 



\ Dufourea halictula (Nyl.) at By fleet, Surrey .—T!\\e first and, up to the 

 present, the only capture of tliis Aculeate in Britain (a single 9 taken by 

 Mr. Silverlock from a Woking .sandpit), was recorded by the late; Ed. Saimders 

 in the Ent. Mo. Mag. of January, 1910. In June last I found a J of this 

 species among som(^ miscellaneous captures, and afterwards met with this sex 

 in increasing profusion for some days, usually at rest on stones or low growing 

 plants. Within a week the ? ? appeared in equal abundance. As Mr. Saunders 

 has stated with reference to vulgaris -owv only other Dufourea, whicli still 

 remains one of the great rarities among Britisli bees that nothing is known of 



