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cliflFe Camp, the summer hefoie last, and made a note of it in my diary 

 at the time. I have freijuently watched Dri/as paplna and Limenitis 

 ■si/liiUa do the same thing in the New Forest during the day if the sun 

 be obscured, and, in the late afternoon, when the sun is going down. 

 On the evening of June 4th last, I found quite a number of Cyanirix 

 (iruiolus roosting in a hawthorn-hedge at Shorncliffe. — Ibid. 



Lateness of the season 1902. — I send you a tew notes on the back- 

 wardness of last season. The first entry in my notebook on the subject 

 refers to Tri/^haena romrs, which 1 breed annually for aberrations. On 

 June 20th, tlie pupie showed no signs of changing, whereas they started 

 coming out on -Tune 14th, in 1901, and the first emergence last year was 

 on June 27th. At Pokesdown, on June 22nd, the larvae of Eut^ouia 

 polifcliloros, .{(/lais tirtirac and Mcdacdsuma neiistria were very small, the 

 latter still in webs, whereas on June 14th, 1901, at the same place, I 

 took the two former, which pupated without feeding again, and the 

 latter was nearly full-fed. 1 also found a number of Aijlaii^ lotiair 

 liiVMV, at Christchurch, as late as September 8rd last, wandering about 

 the paths and pupating under the copings. The imago emerged Septem- 

 ber 18th. My first AittJinxrra tiifolii emerged June 14th, instead of 

 about the first of the month. A. atejilwnd (hippocirpidis, Steph.) started 

 emerging on June 15th, and the last appeared on June 30th. At 

 Shoreham (Kent), which I visited on July 9th, not a single specimen 

 of A. Jillpcndulae was out, and some of the larvjB appeared only half 

 fed. From a number of pupa which I took, the first imago emerged 

 on July 21st, and the last on August 7th, whereas, on July 17th, 1900, 

 the insects were out in plenty at the same place, and, from pup* I took 

 away, my last insect emerged on July 26th, 1900. On August 13th, 

 last year, I found the species quite fresh at both Newport and Ventnor, 

 Isle of Wight. On September 12th last, I took a specimen of 

 Ptrijojtlnla viHralis ab. riridis fresh out on a wall at Folkestone, the 

 latest date (ni which I have ever taken it. On September iHth, I Avatched 

 a ? Picris rapac laying her ova on low plants at Sittingbourne, which 

 struck me as being very late. Some of the ovawhichltook produced larvji? 

 in due course. .\'>iliipli(isia poli/oila)!, Tripluiena cotne.s and 7'. prunnba 

 were in good condition, at sugar, on September 23rd, at Folkestone; 

 Plunia j/cniniia emerging October 14th, from pupie taken at Anerley on 

 September 2()th, and Acschna uii.iid and Sijiiipctnim striolatKii) still 

 flying at Margate, on October 29th, seemed to me further evidence of 

 a late season. On September 23rd, I took larva' of Ci/ajiiris aniiolns, 

 at Dover, veiy young, whereas, on September 2Gth, 1901. a number 1 

 took from the same place had all pupated. This ati'ected the number 

 of my pup;f this year very considerably, as the ivy-buds were now 

 either too hnrd for them to tackle, or had burst into flower. For want 

 of blotter food the larva", whicti were half-fed, attacked their more 

 fortunate brethren, who biui ah'oady assumed the pupal stage, and 

 devoured them. it will be intnresting to note if this lateness will 

 affect the spring brood this year in a state of nature.- — Ibid. 



Lei"C()M\ sai,i<:is fi,vin(; at dawn. -Having occasion one morning 

 last July to get out of bed at dawn, to scatter some members of the 

 feline tribe from the vicinity of my bedroom windo\\, 1 was agreeably 

 surprised to see a. numl)er of /.. so/in's flying about, which fully com- 

 pensated me for the interruption to my innocent slumbers. — li:i]>, 

 Shokt pupal state 01' Thai-eka uucEPHAi.A.— On November 20th, 



