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to blossom, I saw some fine male catkins well out. — Ambkose Quail, 

 15, Stamford Hill, N. 



Seaton. — The magnificent weather which continued tliroughout 

 March, caused many species of lepidoptera to emerge at an unusually early 

 date. By the 8th (if the month the salloAv^ Ijloom Avas nearly over ; jit 

 it, the T<.eniocampa and many of the early Geometers appeared in great 

 (puintities on the loth inst. I took some Ainphidasijii strataria at the 

 lamps. The first butterfly 1 saw was Pie) is rapce, on the 14th February, 

 Ijut throughout March I have noticed many hybernated sorts, including 

 several Colias edma, in the sunny situations sheltered by the cliffs. — 

 John N. Still, Seaton, Devon. [It would be Avell if lepidopterists who 

 observe C. edasa this spring, would actually capture them and determine 

 their sex, afterwards of course setting them free again. — En.] 



Wye Valh'i/. — Although for the last three Aveeks avg have had hard 

 frosts, the heat in the day-time has been most exceptional, in fact, since 

 the 20th January we have had no severe weather here. I took 

 Ti'phro»ia crejimcularia early in relu'uary, Encldoc' cardamines and Lyccvna 

 anjioln>< on the 2oth of March. Kept in a cool place, ova of Orthopia 

 lota and utacilenta, Anchocelis riifina and Orrhodia apadicca hatched in 

 February. Imagines of Hadena thalassina and Notodonta chaonin, ap- 

 })eared early in March ; the pupa3 being kept in a cold room, and by 

 the third w'eek in March, larvie of Aplecia uehulosa, Noctua /estiva and 

 Plnsia pulchrina, had all pupated, ^vhile larvae of Amjerona primaria are 

 now spinning up. — A. Nesbitt, Ajtril ith, 1893. 



Leatherhead. — I do not know Avhether Ni/f^sia l/ispidaria has been 

 previously recorded from this district : the occurrence of a sjjecimen at 

 light on the oth of March may be of interest. I met Avith a single 

 specimen of Aleucis pictaria on the 2nd of April, also at light ; some 

 attention to the luxuriant masses of black-thorn blossom u2X)n the 

 commons near, both at and after dusk, has failed to reveal any further 

 sijecimens of this species. I record Jli/hernia leucoplicearin first on the 

 2nd of February. On the 19th it Avas common on trunks of oak trees, 

 some drying their Avings during the fore-noon in the sunshine ; the 

 lantern revealing them still freshly emerging, after dusk on the same 

 day. Phigalia pilvsaria was seen on the same occasion hanging Avith 

 limp Avings on the oak-trunks, at about 8 o'clock p.m. On March 4th 

 H. leucophoiaria was seen in gTeat abundance and charming A'ariety on 

 some fences near Esher. From a Avooded common near Dorking I was 

 able to record a specimen of Vanessa poJyMoros, amongst other 

 hybernated butterflies seen on March 81st. — E. M. Piudeaux, Ashtead, 

 Surrey. April Wth, 1893. 



Weymouth. — To-day I saAv a specimen of C'ulias edusa; this early 

 api)earance may be of interest to your readers. Should you think it 

 an immigrant or a hybernated specimen ? — A. Foksyth, AA'ondale, 

 lianelagh Eoad. April 4<//, 1893. [Most probably hybernated. — Ed.] 



Vanessa polyciilokos seen in London. — On the 8th of March, I 

 Avas walking up the Victoria Embankment, about 2 p.m. It had 

 been fine all day, but just at that time the sun Avas jjarticularlv 

 poAverful. A large insect came SAvooping doAvn over 1113^ head from 

 behind me, and fluttered about in front of me. I Avas pretty siu'e of its 

 species, but it soon solved my doubts, by settling and exjjanding its 

 Avings Avitliin tAvo yards of me. It Avas a jjerfect, and ajiparently fresh 

 specimen of Vanessa pobjchloros. I immediately made for it Avith my 



