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under our feet wherever we went. Colias Edma is also on the wing ; I first saw it 

 on Whit Monday, and once or twice since. Perhaps we shall have a repetition of 

 the year 1877, when these two butterflies were in such profusion in the autumn. 

 The weather is most brilliant. — Y. R. PEEKiNS,Wotton-under-Edge : June l\th, 1892. 

 [The common occurrence of C. Edusa in tlie south-east of England this year 

 is so universally acknowledged as to render it unnecessary to publish special records ; 

 information on the subject from more outlying districts is of value. — Eds.]. 



Colias Edusa in Gloucestershire.— Ye^tevdaj I saw a specimen flying along the 

 road between this place and Cranham, and my companion (Mr. Fenwick) who was 

 on in front, caught a male in fine condition. C. Edusa in the western Midlands is 

 not frequent, even in the autumn of a " good season." I last saw C Edusa in this 

 district in June, 1877.— H. G-OSS, Painswick, Q-loucestershire : June 22nd, 1892. 



Scent of the male Repialus humuli. — I have succeeded in distinctly recognising 

 a peculiar scent in this species. A few evenings ago three very fresh and perfect 

 male K. humuli were brought in from the garden, evidently fresh from the pupa, 

 and on carefully examining them beneath, the scent was distinguishable from all three, 

 and from one it might be called fairly strong. That there should be no doubt on 

 the point, I submitted the specimens to my young people, who at once noticed the 

 perfume from the under-side. As far as one can judge, it arises from the curiously 

 aborted and altered hind tibise. To describe the scent is not easy. It is not, as in 

 H. hectus, like pineapple, but more like a faint indication of the odour of the larva 

 of Cosstcs, yet so faint and, so to speak, etherealized as not to be disagreeable. I 

 have noticed it in every perfectly fresh male brought in since, but in one rather 

 worn, to-night, it is barely perceptible.— Chas. G-. Barrett, 39, Linden Grove, 

 Nunhead, S.E. : Jult/ 6th, 1892. 



Lepidoptera at Armagh. — The season up to the present has been exceedingly 

 bad. In March I got a few Ilyhernia progemmaria. Butterflies were very late, 

 the first I saw being Pieris rapcB on April 8th. Euchloe cardamines did not appear 

 till the middle of May. Vanessa urticce I have not seen except in the larval stage, 

 but on June 8th I saw two specimens of Vanessa cardui, which species I have not 

 seen here for several years. Pieris hrassicm is quite plentiful, much more so than 

 P. rapce or P. napi. Lyccena Alexis and Zygcena lonicerce have made their ap- 

 pearance this week. The breeding cage produced a nice variety of Arctia mendica S , 

 somewhat intermediate between the English and Irish forms, and a nice example of 

 Notodonta camelina. The prevalence of cold at night has hitherto prevented 

 sugaring. — W. F. Johnson, Winder Terrace, Armagh : July Isf, 1892. 



Lepidoptera in the Mourne District. — During an Excursion of the Belfast 

 Naturalists' Field Club on June 24th and 25th, the following Lepidoptera were 

 taken. On the lower slopes of the mountains, Eupithecia pumilata swarmed on the 

 granite boulders ; E. satyrata var. callunaria and E. minutata were disturbed from 

 the heather ; a few Scodiona belgiaria and 3Ielanippe tristata were secured ; and 

 Mixodia Schulziana was fairly common in the afternoon ; Fidonia piniaria and 

 Eupithecia lariciata were abundant in Donard demesne ; and single specimens of 

 Hadena adusta, Ellopia fasciaria and Coremia designata (propugnataj were taken. 



