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11th. The weather during my stay was unsuitable for butterflies, 

 to express it mildly, but there was some sunshine, and I saw nine 

 specimens of eclusa altogether, the last on September 7th. Pyrameis 

 atalanta was very plentiful, and there were a few P. cardui, Va7iessa 

 io, and V. urticcB to be found, with considerable numbers of Parargc 

 egeria, P. vicegera, Ejnnejihele ianira, E. tithonus, and other common 

 butterflies, and mostly in battered condition. Insects were appa- 

 rently somewhat out of date, for Abraxas grossulariata, Lasiocampa 

 (Bombyx) quercus, and Hydriomena furcata (elutata) were not un- 

 common, and Argynnis paphia was seen at Tavistock on September 

 2nd. Local variation was disappointing ; E. ianira differed little, if 

 at all, from Kentish specimens, and the only species which showed 

 signs of having been interesting was E. tithonus. Sugar proved at- 

 tractive, yielding many common species in abundance, and Geometers 

 were fairly plentiful in the hedges, but nothing appeared that I should 

 not have expected in early to mid-August. The only fresh emergences 

 I noted were Parargc egeria and Mesoleuca ocellata. No doubt the 

 unseasonable weather accounted for this, and has, I fear, sadly 

 lessened the numbers of edusa and cardui. — B. W. Adkin ; 8, Hope 

 Park, Bromley, Kent. 



CoLiAs EDUSA var. HELiCE IN Kent. — I am glad to record two 

 very fine specimens of Colias edusa var. helice, taken by Mr. Bristowe, 

 of this neighbourhood, during the last week in August near Minster- 

 on-Sea, Kent, He saw one or two more during the fitful sunshine 

 we had about then, but was unable to take them. — Stanley A. 

 Blenkarn, F.E.S. ; Norham, Cromwell Eoad, Beckenham, September 

 17th, 1912. 



Colias edusa var. helice, &c., in Channel Islands. — It may be 

 of interest to record the capture of two fresh specimens of C. edusa 

 var. helice, on August 2nd, in Alderney. The typical form was very 

 common. I also secured a fresh specimen of Macroglossa stellatarum 

 on August 12th. In Guernsey I met with a newly emerged H. jacobcecs 

 on August 22nd. This is rather a late emergence, I believe. — Hugh 

 G. Le Eay ; 11, Wontner Eoad, Upper Tooting Park, S. W., September 

 4th, 1912. 



Colias edusa, Pyrameis atalanta, and P. cardui at Folke- 

 stone. — All these species were common at Folkestone in July from 

 the 26th to 27th, Larvae of Macroglossa stellatarum obtained at the 

 same time and place duly pupated, and the moths are now emerging. 

 — H. Fleet, Junr. ; 7, Park Eoad, Esher, September 14th, 1912. 



Colias edusa in Somerset, — I saw one male C. edusa yesterday 

 in a stubble-field, the only one I have seen this year. — Waldegrave ; 

 Chewton Priory, Chewton Mendip, Somerset, September 24th, 1912. 



Abundance op Pyrameis atalanta Larv^. — There has been a 

 remarkable abundance of P. atalanta larvae this year in our local 

 nettle-beds. I could get as many as I liked in July, and so widely 

 extended is the brood (or is it a real double brood ?) that to-day 

 (September 22nd) I have just brought home two pupae and several 

 larvae, not all full-fed. But they seem delicate insects to rear ; of 



