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fields. Later, they were everywhere — gardens, fields, roadsides, &c. 

 Curiously enough the first specimen I caught was more or less var. 

 helice — a very pale creamy tint. I subsequently caught a dead-white 

 example, and so did my son. I saw no C. hyale here. There has 

 been a fair sprinkling of P. cardui, and P. atalanta is still numerous. 

 — E. A. C. Stowell; Laleham, Bexhill-on-Sea, October 10th, 

 1913. 



CoLiAs EDUSA var. HELICE IN Kent. — At the end of August, 

 near Dover, my son and I took three Colias edusa var. helice in good 

 condition, and we saw a fourth. — (Captain) W. E. Manley ; 62, Albert 

 Hall Mansions, London, S.W., October 13th, 1913. 



Colias edusa at Lewisham and Eastbourne. — On the afternoon 

 of October 4th a specimen of Colias edusa flitted across my garden 

 at Lewisham and settled on a Gaillardia blossom, where I was able 

 to examine it closely, and it proved to be a worn male. I had not 

 seen the species in this neighbourhood since the great "edusa" year 

 of 1877. At Eastbourne the species was common throughout August 

 and September, especially about the middle of the latter month, 

 when, in the sheltered nooks on the downs, it was the commonest of 

 the butterflies met with ; it was also frequently seen flying along the 

 parades. — R. Adkin ; Lewisham, October, 1913. 



GoLiAs edusa in Suffolk. — I took four male Colias ediisa at 

 Felixstowe on a small patch of lucerne near the beach in the second 

 week in August, and later in the month two male and one female 

 here in Stutton. The latter laid about one hundred and fifty eggs in 

 confinement, from which I have now a healthy lot of larvae of 

 various sizes. — J. E. Lorimer Fison ; Stutton Hall, Suffolk, October 

 15th, 1913. 



Mutilla europ^a in Yorkshire. — When staying at Robin 

 Hood's Bay last September Professor A. G. Green, of the University 

 of Leeds, then spending some time at Scarborough, cycled over to 

 pay me a visit, and while resting for lunch on Low Moor observed a 

 strange-looking insect crawling along the path. The creature was 

 captured and brought to me and recognised as a Mutilla, although I 

 was then ignorant of the species. It has since been identified by 

 Professor Poulton as M. europtsa, and its capture seems worthy of 

 record, because in the prospectus of a book on ' The Moorlands of 

 North-Eastern Yorkshire,' by F. Elgee, about to be pubHshed at 

 Middlesbrough, a figure of this insect is inserted as the second 

 Yorkshire specimen. If that is really the case, the third Yorkshire 

 example is now in the Hope Museum at Oxford. — R. Meldola; 

 6, Brunswick Square, W.C, October 23rd, 1913. 



Settling Habit of Pyrameis cardui. — The first Pyrameis 

 cardui that I noticed here was on June 4th. It was flying round 

 elms in a meadow about six o'clock in the evening. It would often 

 fly down and settle on the ground ; but each time that it did so 

 selected a bare, dry patch, and, closing the wings over the body, was 

 almost indistinguishable from the soil on which it rested, t have 

 often observed this habit. — Joseph Anderson ; Chichester. 



