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CoLiAS EDusA IN DORSETSHIRE. — I spent a long day on 

 Saturday at Lulworth, and found Colias edusa flying freely about 

 the Cove, and also along the rocks near. I also met with it 

 plentifully farther inland. The commonest butterfly was Satyrus 

 semele, which abounded on the hill-sides. Vanessa io, V. atalanta, 

 and V. cardui were also plentiful. — V. R. Perkins ; Weymouth, 

 September 24, 1888. 



Epinephele hyperanthes, VARIETY. — I have taken five 

 specimens of a variety of Epinephele hyperanthes this summer, in 

 Berkshire. The yellow and black rings are entirely absent, and 

 only the white central dots are evident. — John E. Winkworth ; 

 22, Wallwood Street, Burdett Road, E., September 24, 1888. 



Vanessa antiopa in Kent. — I took a fine specimen of 

 Vanessa antiopa on the high-road near Sevenoaks, on the morn- 

 ing of Saturday last, September 22nd. The colours were 

 brilliant ; the border is not quite so white as that of one which I 

 caught in September some forty years ago, a notice of which 

 appeared at the time in ' The Zoologist,' but is much lighter 

 than the buff of continental specimens. — J. T. Rogers; River 

 Hill, Sevenoaks, September 23, 1888. 



Smerinthus tili^, variety. — I bred a nice dark red-brown 

 variety of this in June, At about the same time I caught about 

 a dozen males assembling round a captive female. — H. M. Lee ; 

 Gladstone House, Sutton, Surrey, September 25, 1888. 



Sphinx convolvuli in Hants. — A female specimen of this 

 insect, in very fair condition, which was so plentiful here last 

 year at white tobacco plant, was brought to me on September 

 12th, by a gardener, who captured it in his cottage. — G. Hesel- 

 tine ; Walhampton, Lymington, Hants, October 1, 1888. 



Deilephila galii. — In addition to the records of Deilephila 

 gain which have appeared in recent numbers of the ' Entomo- 

 logist,' we have received the following : — 



Kent. — Whilst walking in a meadow by the River Medway, on 

 September 8th, I had the good fortune to find a larva. It has 

 never to my knowledge been found in Maidstone before. It was 

 nearly full-fed ; and after feeding on lady's-bedstraw till Sep- 

 tember I7th, spun the leaves of its food-plant together just 

 under the surface of the ground and turned into a chrysalis. — 

 FRANCIS Foster; Westfield, Maidstone, September 23, 1888. 



