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fo///.s. S.D., CLicli ester and Stannier; Anthictii^ iiistabilis. F., Chichester Har- 

 bour; A. /lunrilis. ditto ; * Li/tta leficaloria.F., Chichester; Anaspis ffeofiui/i. 

 F., Chichester ; Tetratoma fim<jornm. Y., Chichester Harbour ; Ahdera -i-ftts- 

 ciatd. 11. LindKeld; Conopalpus testaceus.H., Lindtield; Gonoderalupertis, S.l)., 

 Chichetiter. — Lkonard G. Cox, 90 Marine Parade, Worthing ; Gkorgk H. 

 IvYLK, 6, Ciiesham Pkce, J5ri,i>hion : Charles E. Tottenham, Hose Villa, 

 Highland lioad, Chichester: Auyust '27th, 1920. 



Cryptohinm fracticorne Pai/k. var.jdcqueliniBoield. in Brihdn. — This addi- 

 tion to our fauna was first captured by me on the Sussex marshes near Chichester 

 in May, 1910, at the roots oiJii/uus, in coni})any with Chaetocnema sahlhcrrfi, and 

 was again met with in April and Auyust of this year in decayinji tidal rejecta- 

 menta. Superlicially, C. jacq>ie/ini heara a strung resemblance to the common 

 Otiiius mek/nocephalu-s, being of about the same size and coloration, but, of 

 coinse, is abundantly distinct structurally. I am indebted to Dr. Cameron for 

 identifying the insect for me. — P. Harwood, Brasted, Kent ; Septe77iber, 1920. 



[This variety may be knowm by its red prothorax. It has also been taken 

 by Major Temple at Brightlingsea, on the Essex Coast. In the INIediterranean 

 re^:i(iu it seems to be the prevailing form, and is common at Gibraltar and 

 Tetuan. — Eos.j 



Colias edusa, etc., in the Oxford district. — Colias e:hiS(t is one of the less 

 common Oxford butterflies, and several consecutive years may pass witiiout a 

 single speciuien being observed in the district. AVheu I was in the New Forest 

 ia .luue last, I heard that C. ednsa had been noticed near Brockenhurst, so I 

 was not altogether surprised on August llitli to see two very fresh-looking 

 examples on the wing, one on the roadside near Cothill, Berks, and the other 

 at heather-bloom in the heart of Tubney Wood. On the following day I met 

 wilh the butterfly somewhat commonly, but all males, in a Avoni-out clover- 

 field near Ileadingtou, Oxon, some of the specimens being already a good deal 

 w'asted ; a fair number of both sexes were afterwards taken in the same spot by 

 myself and other collectors, and I observed odd specimens all over the district 

 up to the end of the month. 



Pyrumtis atalantccwns conspicuously rare here last year, in fact, I did not 

 myst If see a single specimen; but a large immigiatiou of this insect and 

 P. cfirdui took place about the end of May, and atalcmta was actually one of 

 the butterflies most in evidence about Oxford in June, as well as in the New- 

 Forest. The new brood of this species — mostly very fine and brilliant speci- 

 mens — is now on the wing in large numbers, but P. cardui does not ap])ear to 

 have done so well, and I have seen but few fresh examples this autumn. 

 Af/laia urticae, for the third year in succession, is still comparatively scarce, 

 but J'anessa io is abundant as usual, and several specimens oi Pulyyonia c-album, 

 by no means a common species here, have been observed ; I took a fine S f-t 

 Cothill on Augitst 7th. Another in.«ect of migratory habits, Pitisia gavmin, 

 which has been decidedly scarce here during the last two or three years, is now 

 to b*:" seen in abundance on the wing among the autumnal flowers. — James J. 

 Walkkr, Oxford ; Sepitinbcr li<th, 1920. 



