530 VARIETIES. 



Hi/ale and Lathonia have been taken this year in Northum- 

 berland ? I am pretty sure that I know all the collections in 

 the county, and have never heard of such captures ; indeed, I 

 think them extremely improbable. I have both insects from 

 the south of England. 



Newcastle, GEORGE WaILES. 



llth October, 1834. 



50. Colias Europome again. — Sir, In a list of Wor- 

 cestershire Lepidoptera, prepared by an excellent and most 

 indefatigable naturalist, Mr. Edwin Lees, of Worcester, and 

 recently published in the appendix to a lecture by Dr. Hastings, 

 occurs the following notice of this insect: " Colias Europome 

 has been noticed in the meadows near the confluence of the 

 Avon and Severn, flying with great swiftness in August, but is 

 a rare insect." The following notices, from the same list, 

 seem worthy of a corner in your Magazine. " Colias Chry- 

 sotheme. — Rare. Near Worcester, in the cabinet of Mr. 

 A. Edmonds." " Vanessa Antiopa. — Very uncommon ; but 

 has been captured at Barbourne, near Worcester." " Lyccena 

 dispar. — Very rare in this county : a solitary individual has 

 been taken." " Polyommatus Acis. — -Taken at Hawford, near 

 Worcester, and in the Trench woods." " Deilephila Livornica. 

 —Near Worcester; but rare. D.Celerio. — Rare." In addition 

 to these, I may add, that a fine specimen of Argynnis Lathonia 

 was taken some years back by my friend, Samuel Alexander 

 Burlingham, of Worcester, not far from the town. 



Depfford. EDWARD NEWMAN. 



51. Nyssia zonaria. — My brother, Benjamin Cooke, found 

 a pupa in the sand in September, 1832, in the same locality 

 where I have captured the moth, from which he hatched a 

 female on the 27th of February, 1833. About the same time, 

 a considerable number of moths were found ; and during the 

 same month of the present year I found them so abundant, 

 that I could scarcely walk without treading on them. I have 

 only observed them about one locality ; but I think it is very 

 probable they may be found on other parts of the coast. 



Leicester, NICHOLAS CoOKE. 



\7th Nov. 1834. 



52. Curious economy of Gyrinus Villosus. — The Memoirs 



