408 VARIETIES. 



Feel most severe thy beams decay, 



His tendril cease to twine, 

 Relax'd and feeble shall it lay, 



And speedily decline. 



The rustling heath which blooms around, 



Shall bow its purple head. 

 The ferns, and all the mosses near, 



That form thy silvery bed. 



Shall droop, and silently deplore, 



For mirth shall cease to be ; — 

 No insect with his busy hum, — 



For all will die with thee. 



G. Shove. 



12. Colias Electra and Hyale. — The appearance of these 

 butterflies in the vicinity of London is so unusual as to be 

 worth recording. They frequent the blossom of lucerne in 

 preference to that of any other plant, and both species were 

 to be met with on fine days from the 16th to the end- 

 of August, wherever a patch of lucerne was in fine blossom. 

 At Deptford, Newcross, and along the Kent-road, of Colias 

 electra twenty-seven specimens were taken, and of C. hyale 

 thirty-four, principally by Mr. Ardly, of Rotherhithe, a col- 

 lector, who catches them for sale ; but I had the good fortune 

 to take nine of each species myself. 



Deplford. EdWARD NeWMAN. 



13. Colias Hyale. — A single specimen has been taken 

 this autumn by a lady near Ross (Herefordshire). 



London. G. TRUSTED. 



14. Colias Europome. — A pair of this fine species of butter- 

 fly, precisely resembling those in the cabinet of Mr. Stephens, 

 are in the possession of Mr. Edmonds, of Worcester. I 

 examined them closely, and find they have all the appear- 

 ance of British insects as regards the pins, the mode of setting, 

 &c. Mr. Edmonds assured me they were both taken on the 

 south coast of England, but he could not tell me the exact 

 spot without a reference to the captor. Mr. Edwards tells me, 

 that neither this species nor Hyale have ever occurred to his 

 knowledge in the neighbourhood of Worcester. 



Deptford. EdWARD New^MAN. 



