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creamy tint, which gives the specimen a semi -transparent appearance, 

 and consequently the usual black spots and bars — which appear to 

 be normal — show up conspicuously, and the dark blotches at the 

 base of the wings are very obvious. At the anal angle of hind wings 

 there is a shaded indication of the usual tawny hue. The specimen 

 is apparently a male in very fair condition, although I should imagine 

 when seen on the wing it might have been mistaken for a very worn 

 specimen. — G. B. Cobbin ; Eingwood. 



COLIAS EDUSA, PyEAMEIS CARDUI, AND P. ATALANTA IN THE IsLE 



OF Wight. — The weather of late has been most unfavourable with 

 us for entomology. The early part of the season was good for 

 C. edusa, P. carclui, and P. atalanta. I bred the two former from 

 ova, and of the latter larvae were found in plenty on nettle. I took 

 females of P. carclui in March which deposited ova, from which fine 

 specimens were reared in May and June. I obtained ova of C. edusa 

 in May, and had a very fine series from these. I now have another 

 family of G. edusa feeding up in my greenhouse. I am afraid that 

 this species has fared badly in the open, as we have had ground frost 

 and continuous rains. — G. Nobbs ; North Lodge, East Cowes, Isle 

 of Wight, August 17th, 1912. 



CoLiAs EDUSA IN WILTSHIRE. — A fine male specimen of this 

 butterfly was captured near Fordingbridge on August 5th, 1912. — 

 A. S. Corbet ; Bournemouth. 



Capture of Pontia daplidice in Norfolk. — On Wednesday 

 morning, July 17th, I captured a specimen of Pontia daplidice near 

 Norwich; it was a female, and in good condition. The 17th was 

 warm and sunny, with rather a strong north-easterly wind, which 

 had been blowing, more or less, for the two previous days, and 

 common butterflies were plentiful on the sheltered flowery railway- 

 bank, along which I happened to be walking, luckily, however, with 

 a net. The daplidice was amongst a good many Pieris rapce, flying 

 very sluggishly and feebly from flower to flower, eventually settling 

 on a plant of knapweed, from which I caught it. A month previously 

 I had been watching the strong swiftly-flying daplidice in Hungary, 

 but the climate of Hungary is not that of Norfolk, and doubtless this 

 specimen was more or less torpid and chilled by the cold of the early 

 morning. I am glad to say that this record is an addition to the 

 Norfolk list of butterflies, as P. daplidice has not previously been 

 taken in the county, though it is reported to have been captured at 

 Felixstowe and near Aldeburgh, in Sufl'olk. — Gerard H. Gurney ; 

 Keswick Hall, Norwich. 



Phryxus (Deilephila) livornica. — A specimen of Phryxus 

 livornica was taken at dusk at rhododendrons in a garden at Pai'k- 

 stone, Dorset, on May 19th last. — Cyril Adams; Penn Hall, 

 Parkstone. 



Deilephila galii in Inverness-shire. — I took a very large and 

 beautiful female example of this species at dusk here on the 21th 

 instant, as it was hovering before some honeysuckle. — Gervase F. 

 Mathew; Gairlochy, Spean Bridge, N.B., July 29th, 1912. 



