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Cyaniris argiolus, a partial third brood. — Between Scptcmhor 

 29th and October 18th thirteen specimens of Cyaniris argiolus, four 

 males and nine females, have emerged from pupte resulting from 

 some forty larvae collected from the Hower buds of ivy at Eastbourne 

 on September 5th last. Although a third emergence of C. argiolus 

 may not be altogether unknown, it is at least very infrequent, and 

 the interesting point in this instance is that, although the majority 

 of females follow the spring emergence in that they have com- 

 paratively narrow borders to the fore-wings, some of them resemble 

 the summer emergence in having the wings broadly black bordered. 

 — E. Adkin ; Lewisham, October, 1913. 



EUCHLOB CARDAMINES EMERGING IN OCTOBER. — I haVe the 



pleasure of bringing to your notice a very late emergence of 

 E. cardamines. I found a very small male in the breeding cage on 

 the morning of October 2nd. All the other imagines from the same 

 brood of larvjB had emerged between April 24th and June 9th. — 

 B. W. Neave ; Lyndhurst, 95, Queen's Koad, Brownswood Park, N., 

 October 20th, 1913. 



Notes on Gonepteryx rhamni, &c. — During the last week in 

 September I was watching some P.atalanta on a clump of Michaelmas 

 Daisies, v^hen I observed a female G. rhamni, which was also on the 

 flowers, suddenly flutter up to a creeper on the house wall (a yellow 

 summer-flowering Jasmine), and settle on the under side of a leaf. 

 This was about 3 p.m. on a sunny day. The butterfly never 

 stirred for a fortnight, though we had some even warmer days when 

 the sun actually shone upon it. It had evidently gone into hiberna- 

 tion. I watched it every day, for it was clearly in sight at a height 

 of about 10 ft. from the ground, though it required two or three 

 minutes' search to locate it, as its pale whitey-green colouring seemed 

 to disappear among the pale jasmine leaves. I had hoped to watch 

 it through the winter, but unfortunately a squally evening and 

 tempestuous night on October 8th apparently dislodged it from its 

 exposed perch, and I have not found it again as yet. The interesting 

 feature to me was the apparently casual and unpremeditated way in 

 which it took up its winter quarters ; there was no search or 

 selection of a site. Yet it would not move again, though the sun 

 actually shone upon it. Three Vanessa urtica evidently retired for 

 the winter about the same time, though one was tempted out once 

 more on a very fine day. But P. atalanta have obviously no inclina- 

 tion that way, as my batch were all out to-day (October 10th) 

 battling with a very chill east wind. — E. A. C. Stowell ; Laleham, 

 Bexhill-on-Sea. 



Notes on the Past Season.— I spent the months of May and 

 June at Margate, and kept a sharp look-out for the arrival of 

 immigrant species. On June 2nd I found that Colias edusa, 

 Pyramcis cardioi, P. atalanta and Plusia gamma appeared simul- 

 taneously in a locaHty, where, for some days previously I had been 

 taking Acontia luctuosa and Aspilates citraria. Butterflies were very 

 scarce ! Expeditions to Blean Woods, near Heme Bay, and Sturry 

 Woods, near Canterbury, only resulted in the taking of Argynnis 

 euphrosyne, Gallophrys (Thecla) ruhi and Cyaniris {Lyccsna) argiolus. 



