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Renting of Vanessa urticce. -In the middle of June last year two specimens of 

 T'. urficcB took up positions in a dark part of a passage in my house. One remained 

 only about a week, but the other stayed until the middle of August and tlien de- 

 parted spontaneously early one morning ; its departure coinciding with the appear- 

 ance of the second brood on the wing. 



This year the species was later, owing to the cold spring, but about the first 

 week in July several individuals entered the house. Most of them stayed a few 

 days only, but two are still in the positions they first took up, and during Septem- 

 ber have been joined by several of the second brood. Of this latter, in common 

 with the other species of J'anessa, and with G-onepteryx rhamni, very few indivi- 

 duals have been seen here, although larvte were common ; and I have little doubl- that 

 most of them have gone into winter quarters almost immediately on emergence. 

 Had it not been so, it is possible that the dormant individuals of the first brood 

 would have joined the second brood on the wing. 



Although this habit has not, so far as I am aware, been recorded before, it may 

 not be unusual. It would seem to be of the same nature as the retarded emergence 

 of pupse, and the different rate of growth of larvae of the same brood, whereby in- 

 dividuals of one generation are enabled to pair with those of the next, or a subsequent 

 generation. — Chaeles W. Watts, Maidstone : September, 1901. 



Colias Ediisa at Seaton, Devon, in 1901. — After keeping a good look out for C. 

 Edusa in this neighbourhood earlier in the year, I failed to see any until September 

 24th, when, after some days of southerly breezes, I happened to meet with a single 

 male in good condition flying over Haven Hill. In the s]iring and first part of the 

 summer the prevalent winds were adverse to the passage of migrants from the 

 continent ; and last winter and spring were unfavourable to the propagation of 

 offspring from eggs laid last autumn. — A. E. Eaton, Woodlands, Seaton, Devon : 

 September SOth, 1901. 



Sphinx convolvuli at Eltham. — It would appear that Sphinx convolvuli has 

 been somewhat common at Eltham this season, as on September 2f)th and 27th I 

 noticed at the flowers of the tobacco plant quite a number of specimens, one of 

 which I captured.— A. H. Jones, Shrublands, Eltham : October 2nd, 1901. 



Sphinx convolvuli at Kingston-on-Thames. — A large female specimen of this 

 insect was brought to me this afternoon from the Kingston Union; it had been 

 taken by the Master when endeavouring to obtain admission to the Workhouse. 

 The specimen is " no pauper," but is in the finest possible condition, and could not 

 long have emerged from the pupa. — H. Gross, Surbiton Hill : September 21st, 1901. 



Sphinx convolvuli at Hoylake. — A fine specimen of the Convolvulus Hawk 

 Moth was taken on a fishing boat in "the gutter" and brought to me on the 

 evening of September 30th last. The insect, which was greatly feared by its captors 

 on account of its supposed stinging capabilities, was in very fair condition, con- 

 sidering it had been allowed to flutter about for some time in a paper bag of 

 somewhat ample dimensions. — E. J. Burgess Sopp, Hoylake : October, 1901. 



