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In the woods it was just the same ; nothing was to be found on 

 the aspens and sallows, and even in the cottage gardens, where 

 in an ordinary season many of the cabbage and broccoli plants 

 exhibit nothing but their ribs, the leaves last year were almost 

 all intact. 



Lee House, Dovercourt : Jan. 9th, 1912. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Correction. — By some oversight the legends to the figures of 

 larval siphons in my paper on British Mosquitos in last month's 

 ' Entomologist ' were reversed. Fig. 4 represents Theohalclia fumi- 

 pennis (Stph.) (= theobaldia, Meij.), and fig. 3 is Th. morsitans 

 (Theo.). I should have stated that these two species belong to the 

 group Culicella, now included by Dyar and Knab in Culex. In my 

 opinion, however, the structure of the male palpi and genitalia and of 

 the legs places them rather in Theohalclia. — F. W. Edwards ; British 

 Museum (Natural History), September 24th, 1912. 



Lyc^na argiades (Life-history of) : an Amendment. — My 

 attention has recently been called to a footnote on p. 78, vol. iii., 

 Tutt's ' British Butterflies,' which criticises my statements referring 

 to the cannibalistic habits of Lycana argiades larvae as follows : — 

 " Frohawk's details of this (Entom. xxxvii. p. 245) must be taken 

 with caution. On p. 246 he states that ' all the eggs hatched on the 

 same day, July 30th, 1904,' and that 'the first moult took place on 

 August 3rd.' On p. 243 he stated that he ' noticed one larva, after 

 the first moult, feeding on a newly hatched larva, which it had seized 

 as it emerged from the egg,' which is very wonderful, if both state- 

 ments be studied together." These facts are easily explained, as I 

 find, on reference to my note-book regarding this species, an entry 

 stating, "I received from Mr. Hugh Main, July 21st, 1904, some 

 larvae and ova laid by a female taken by Dr. Chapman, South 

 France." The larva alluded to, after the first moult (Entom. p. 248), 

 is one of those received on July 21st, which I had placed with the 

 newly hatched larvae on July 30th. I admit I might have made the 

 statement clearer by mentioning the fact I had larvae already feeding 

 previous to those that hatched (July 30th) from the second lot of eggs 

 received on July 26th. — F. W. Frohawk. 



Notes on Colias edusa, Pyrameis cardui, &c. — The present 

 year gave promise of yielding large numbers of Colias edusa and 

 Pyrameis cardui. I do not know how far the promise has held good, 

 but my own experience has been disappointing. The first appearance 

 of British-bred specimens that I noted was on July 20th, at Dover, 

 where two male G. edusa and one var. hclice put in an appearance. 

 At the field meeting of the South London Entomological and Natural 

 History Society at Otford, on July 27th, I personally saw three male 

 edusa. From that time until August 3 7th I had no opportunity of 

 observation, but on that date I went to South Devon until September 



