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miles from this town. From this I came to the conclusion that 

 it would establish itself here. The next season, through a long 

 severe attack of illness, I was debarred from making any obser- 

 vations whatever. During the present season I have been able 

 to take the field again, and I was much pleased to find that V. io 

 was flying in various parts of the district in great plenty. On 

 August 28th, while taking a walk along a brook-side which runs 

 among the old pit mounds so numerous here, I saw it in good 

 numbers in company with V. urtica and Polyommatus lylilaas, and 

 with several species of dragonflies, flying along the brook-side, 

 the whole forming a picture rarely to be seen among these dreary 

 wastes, where very few flowers are to be found growing. The 

 damp tufts of grass, and the coltsfoot leaves growing by the side 

 of the stream, seemed to be the attraction. I have also found 

 F. atalanta and V. urtica in great abundance. Other species of 

 Lepidoptera have been more abundant this season than formerly, 

 more especially Pieris rapes and P. hrassica, the former in 

 countless numbers, both in the larval and perfect state ; a great 

 number of the larvae have been destroyed by ichneumons. — 

 Thos. Hill ; 15, Kussell Street, Willenhall, October 13, 1887. 



Lyc^na corydon in Cumberland. — This butterfly used to 

 occur at Grisedale, at the foot of Saddleback, in Cumberland. I 

 have seen some specimens taken there b}^ the late Mr. Hope, of 

 Penrith. That is a locality far away from chalk. — J. B. Hodg- 

 KiNSON ; Ashton-on-Ribble, Lancashire, December, 1887. 



DiuRNi, &c., IN Switzerland. — The following notes, taken 

 in Switzerland during the past month of July, of some of our 

 own Lepidoptera, may be of interest. Papilio machaon I saw 

 thoughout the month in lower and upper valleys, also near 

 towns, but, as far as I was able to observe, not very abundant ; 

 on July 8th I noticed a female laying eggs on the wild carrot ; on 

 one occasion I noticed this butterfly at a somewhat high elevation, 

 namely, on the Eiffelberg, near Zermatt, over 7000 feet above the 

 sea. Pieris rapes swarmed at the lucerne and clover fields in 

 cultivated districts ; on the evening of July 29th, after sunset, 

 several specimens of this butterfly came wearily from off the lake 

 of Neuchatel, having evidently crossed from the opposite bank 

 miles across. On July 13th I saw three fine male specimens of 

 Euchloe cardamines near Zermatt. Colias edusa and C. hyale 



