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Boxhill and North Kent. — In company with a member of the North 

 Kent Society (Mr. E. Knight), I pai'i a short visit to Boxhill, and 

 found C. edusa just coming out. We managed to take seven after 

 great labour, on the slopes of the hills between there and Reigate on 

 July 24th. 



From July 24th to August 2rst, Mr. Knight and I spent all the time 

 we could get in the North Kent Marshes, between Higham and 

 Woolwich, where we found C. edusa very abundant, especially in the 

 clover and lucerne fields ; of the first fifty taken by us, only thirteen 

 were females. We also captured Colias hyale, and saw one other. The 

 second week of August seemed very like the first ; C. edusa was 

 abundant, var. helice and hyale occurred but very sparingly, our record 

 being two of each (of the latter). On August 21st we had our best 

 day. Messrs. J. Wilson, E. Knight, and myself went down to Graves- 

 end, counting fifty-seven edusa on the railway banks going down. 

 Near Gravesend we got into one clover field where edtcsa nearly 

 equalled in numbers the whites ; and what was better than all, var. 

 helice and hyale occurred in greater numbers than we had seen it 

 before. I should think one out of every five or six were hyale, and 

 one out of every ten or eleven were var. helice ; we managed to secure 

 twenty hyale and nine helice. We saw C. edusa flying in the main 

 streets of both Gravesend and Northfleet, and severally have actually 

 been taken in the Royal Arsenal. We found the males near Gravesend 

 quite twice as numerous as the females. — H. Allbuarv, 42, Elm 

 Street, Plumstead. 



Wimbledon. — Having found Wimbledon a rather productive locality 

 last year, I determined to visit it again this year, partly to increase my 

 own collection, and partly to work up some beetle localities for the 

 London fauna list, which has been taken in hand by the City of London 

 Entomological Society. Three visits have been made, one in April, 

 another in June, and a third in August. The weather having been 

 rather cold, I restricted my operations on the first visit to tuft-cutting 

 in the ravine, and only took one good insect, namely, a nice specimen 

 of Colon serripes ; but as this was the first Colon I had ever taken, I 

 was tolerably well satisfied. In June I spent a whole day on the 

 common with my brother, and insects were plentiful in quantity and 

 good in quality. By sweeping down the ravine I took Zeugophora 

 subs/>inosa, Malthodes atonius, Telephorus lateralis, and, rather strangely, 

 Hydropones memnonius. By searching among the reed refuse I secured 

 Luslus rufescejis and L. fulviharbis, Acupalpus gyllenhali, Oxypoda 

 unibrata and nigrina, Agabus didyimis and paludosus ; and while search- 

 ing I saw an Anchonunus, running up one of the reed stems, which 

 proved to be A. livens. By the banks of the stream running by the 

 side of the common, Callicerus obscurus and Cercyon aquaiicus turned 

 up, and by beating I took Rhynchites megacephalus and Erirhinus 

 treniulce, while my brother took Rhynchites ceneovirens and Cxliodes 

 subrufus. Coming back, as it was getting dusk, I recommenced 

 sweep. ng in the hope of getting some club-horns, and I succeeded in 

 getting one Colon t~ufescens, also Ocalea castafiea and Galeruca tenella. 

 In August I confined my operations almost entirely to sweeping, but 

 the wind was strong and cold, and insects were not plentiful. The 

 sheltere*.! spots on the common, however, produced Fhytobius ivaltoni 



