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up till yesterday, September 20th, in good condition, which is later 

 than usual here. — Albert J. Hodges, Freshwater Bay, September 

 2\st, 1892. 



Oxfordshire. — Colias edusa species appeared sparingly in the clover 

 fields at the end of May and beginning of June, and, anticipating a 

 Colias season (from their worn appearance, which showed that they 

 were immigrants), I did not trouble to capture any, but left them to 

 breed. The new brood appeared here early in August, and were soon 

 very abundant, I have captured several hundred specimens near 

 Chinnor, but the var. helice has so far been scarce, as I have only taken 

 two specimens to date. As the insects are still in fine order I anticipate 

 that they will occur (as in 1877) to quite the end of the month, — A. J. 

 Spiller. Septeviber 1th, 1892. 



Bucks. — Whilst collecting Hesperia comma on the chalk downs in the 

 Wendover district I noticed C. edusa very commonly on the hills. I 

 likewise captured it plentifully in a clover field at Monks Risborough. 

 —Id. 



Somerset. — I noticed at the end of August that C. edusa was 

 apparently common at Taunton and Minehead. — Id. 

 Devon. — I noticed C. edusa on the cliffs at Seaton, — Id. 

 Oxon. — It is not often, I believe, that Colias hyale occurs here, hence 

 I have the greater pleasure in recording the capture of eight specimens 

 at Chinnor. Three of these were taken on August 23rd, by my younger 

 son, Reginald Spiller, a lad of 10 years. On September 5th I captured 

 two flying over a lucerne field, and on September 6th a milk-white 

 female, just fresh from the chrysalis. Two other specimens have been 

 taken by another collector. — Id. 



Eastbourne. — I have little to record except the abundance of Colias 

 edusa at Eastbourne, where I spent the first fortnight of August. One 

 specimen I saw there was well worthy of note, and I greatly regret that 

 I was unable to secure it. On the first morning after my arrival I 

 went out, unfortunately without a net, and on a precipitous bank just 

 out of reach, saw a specimen which had the two left wings normal ? 

 and the right wings var. helice. It was sitting on the flowers just below 

 me, and I watched it for several minutes, but it was quite impossible 

 to reach it without a net and though I haunted the spot for several 

 days after I never saw it again, Lyccena corydon was in the greatest 

 abundance on Beachy Head and elsewhere, but although I examined 

 numbers of specimens I only found one or two slight variatiuns. — G. C, 

 Griffiths. September ^th, 1892. 



Surrey and Peters field. — After writing to you from Surrey I took at 

 sugar, on August 22nd, a fine Catocala sponsa, the first time I ever 

 saw it there, I have seen several specimens of Colias edusa here this 

 week while out shooting, and on September 6th managed to capture a 

 good C. hyale. — Waldegrave, Blackmoor, Petersfield. September Zth, 

 1892. 



Ireland. — My experience of the season has been not very satisfactory. 

 I went to Tyrone and Monaghan to try for certain insects in 

 their well-known haunts, but they were evidently very late in emergence, 

 and, in spite of some very hot days, I only took a few precursors of the 

 host which should have been thick on my sugar. It was thus with 

 Cyniatophora duplaris, Hadena adusta, Aplecta herbida, Lyccena argiolus, 



