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the less said the better. I am attemptinpj to introduce Papilio nmchaon 

 and AranrJinia levana into North Merioneth, and should be glad if 

 collectors who go there would take the hint. The A. lecana are coming 

 from north-west Germany and north France as far as possible, as the 

 conditions there are generally more like those of our islands than in 

 the centre of Europe. Near us, Umbellifers are very numerous, and 

 there are some good marsh meadows full of Dauciis carota by the shore. 

 —P. P. Graves, Emifa, Harlech. October Vdth, 1902. 



Amphidasys betularia on brooji. — Having recently returned from 

 a part of Spain, where one was gradually learning to believe that 

 everything would eat broom, even if it would eat nothing else, it is 

 somewhat amusing, if less surprising, to find a larva of Amjihidasys 

 betularia at " Betula," feeding on a species of broom, a free-growing 

 species with small white flowers, common in gardens, but the 

 name of which I do not know. I watched it for several days on 

 the shrub, and then brought it indoors and satisfied myself that it was 

 eating and quite at home on the broom, though it may originally 

 have come from a contiguous hawthorn or crab. A. bctidaria will 

 eat most things, so that broom may have been already recorded, but 

 I do not remember it. — T. A. Chapman, M.D., Betula, Reigate. 



Lepidoptera at Folkestone and Chelmsford. — While staying at 

 Folkestone, from August 28th to September 12th, my father and I 

 captured some fourteen Colias t'diisa and one ab. Iwlicc, in bred condition. 

 I brought one C. ediisa $ home for eggs. It laid ten, and the larvre all 

 hatched out, but the ants took them when two or three days old. 

 Mchiiianiia (jaJatea were going over, but we took a few very good ones 

 on the Warren and the hills round Cspsar's Camp. We also took four 

 ( 'alias hyale and a few Pyranins cardni, P. atalanta, Hipparchia scinele, 

 Polyommatnn antrarche, P. adonis, one or two blue P. icariis, females, 

 Aryymiis aylaia, and two Acidalin ornata, while Bryophilaperla, Luj/erina 

 testacea, Nenroriia popidaris, Peridroma ypdlon {Hiijf'tisa), and Porthema 

 elirysorrhoea $ , came to light. Autumn insects are late here this year, 

 as most species have been during the summer. PhihoUa cerrinata is 

 still emerging in a cage out of doors ; and Polia jtariciiicta has just made 

 its appearance here. A good many of my young Piitridia qiwrcifolia 

 larvte, which were sleeved out in the Qgs, state, are still very small, and 

 I am afraid will not have time to feed up for successful hybernation, 

 before the leaves fall. — (Miss) E. jMiller, The Croft, Rainsford Road, 

 Chelmsford. October \Qth, 1902. 



Dates of Appearance. — The dates of appearance of the same 

 species must, in some instances, be very different in Perthshire and 

 Yorkshire. In the " Practical Hints " for October, Mr. Bush gives 

 October as the date for the occurrence of species that we normally obtain 

 much earlier. The following dates will exemplify my meaning — 

 ())iorahia fiUqrawjiiaria is an August insect here. My dates are — 1895, 

 August 28th, worn ; 1896, August 11th ; 1902, August 29th and 30th. 

 This species is usually fairly common here, frequenting open heath 

 land, and I can usually get the larvae about the middle of May on 

 Calluna nili/aris. Is it a lapsus calavri ior (>. dUtitafa which in just 

 coming out now ? Xnctna ylareosa, 1895, August 28th; 1900, August 

 30th ; 1901, August 21st ; 1902, August 30th. Anarta nn/rtilli, larva? 

 are usually full-led here about the end of July, and I never take any 

 after the middle of August, as these are always ichneumoned. — L. 8. 

 Brady, 68, Hunterhouse Road, Shefiield. October 2,Ut, 1902. 



