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That on joining the Association each member should under- 

 take to assist any other member by advice or information. 



In conclusion, I would state that my idea of appointing 

 County Secretaries is that this would materially lighten the 

 work of the London Committee, and at the same time give 

 these gentlemen an excellent opportunity of compiling a complete 

 entomological fauna of their county. The suggestion for the 

 publication of a list of members, with a record of the particular 

 branch of Entomology which they are studying, is adopted 

 from the annual report of the Societe Fran§aise d'Entomologie. 

 I need scarcely say that I am sure these suggestions can be 

 readily improved on and supplemented, and that they will be 

 accepted as only intended to elicit opinion as to whether such an 

 Association as 1 have proposed could be practically formed and 

 worked. 



Erme Wood, Ivybridge, S. Devon, December 1, 1887. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. CAPTURES, &c. 



CoLiAS EDUSA IN CUMBERLAND. — Mr. Watson, of this village, 

 who is not an entomologist, took a fine specimen of C. eclma in a 

 field near here in August last. I have not previously seen this 

 species with us for about ten years. — H. Murray; Lowbank 

 Villas, Carnforth, Nov. 11, 1887. 



Vanessa antiopa with white borders. — I can endorse the 

 statement of your correspondents (Entom. xx. 135, 156, 228), 

 that the white border of V. antiopa is due to the fading of 

 the yellow. Nearly all the hybernated specimens which I have 

 captured here have white borders. — J. Warburg; Villa Raphael, 

 Cannes, December 8, 1887. 



Vanessa antiopa in Oxfordshire. — On August 14tli last, in 

 the woods at Nuneham Courtney, I saw a beautifully fresh speci- 

 men of Vanessa antiopa with yellow-bordered wings, evidently a 

 Briton boin and bred. I could not capture it, not having a net 

 with me at the time ; nor had I the wish to do so. Perhaps if 

 V. antiopa, Sphinx convolvuli, and otlier rarities were not captured 

 and slaughtered whenever seen by thoughtless collectors, they 

 might again become as plentiful in England as thej' were of yore. 



