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time with its wings well spread. I made a bad shot in trying to catch 

 it, and it made off in a very rapid manner indeed." Of course this 

 was a case of migration, and it is a great pity Mr. Garnett cannot fix 

 the year, as then there would be a possibility of tracing the origin of the 

 insect, whether from abundance in England or on the continent. — 

 W. F. Johnson ; Acton Glebe, Poyntypass, Nov. 16th, 1900. 



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CoLTAS EDUSA AND C. HYALE IN 1900. — I Captured several of the 

 former and one of the latter here early in September, and took both species 

 at Needham Market, and saw theoa near Aldeburgh, Woodbridge, Sax- 

 mundham, and Dunwich, in Suffolk, during the same month. — Gervase 

 F. Mathew; Dovercourt, Essex, Dec. 10th, 1900. 



Considering the abundance of C. hyale in England this year, a note on 

 its appearance in the Rhine Valley may be interesting. I saw the first one 

 on Aug. J2nd, careering over a wet meadow, on the slopes of the Taunus 

 Hills, near Wiesbaden. On the 7th I saw several on a lucerne field, and 

 took four close to Wiesbaden. On Aug. 12th we took the species again, at 

 Brauufels, in the valley of the Lahn, near Wetzlar, and from that date till 

 the 2l8t of the month we noted it daily there. On the whole, however, I 

 should not call it abundant in that district this year, and C. edusa was 

 entirely absent. Other butterflies were very numerous, but of these I 

 hope to send vou notes later. — Alfred Sigh; 65, Barrowgate Road, 

 Chiswick, Nov." 20th, 190U. 



In answer to your enquiry as to the northern distribution of C. edusa, I 

 may say that I noticed a few females flying on the low cliffs at Criccieth, 

 North Wales, during the early part of July last. — E. B. Nevinson ; 

 3, Tedworth Square, Chelsea, S.W. 



Colias edusa AND C. HYALE IN YORKSHIRE, 1900. — Two males, 

 Skipwith (Ash); Pocklington (Leadman) ; Ripon (Watts); two males 

 Easingwold (Walker); two males and one female, Clifton-York (Hawkins) ; 

 Rotherham (Bloor); one specimen in lane near VVadworth Wood (C. E. 

 Young); Shipley Glen, Bradford (Booth and Beanland) ; " more plentiful 

 in the Hull neighbourhood than since 1887 ; one collector took over fifty 

 specimens in one day near Beverley, and some three dozen were seen in 

 a clover-field, on the Humber-bauk, by another ; also odd specimens in the 

 town (Boult); a specimen captured on Aug. 16th, near Guisborough, by 

 the Rev. C. M. Wuhington, of Great Ayton ; one seen in Grange Road, 

 Middlesborough, on Sept. 10th, by Mr. C. Milburu ; another seen in a 

 clover-field near Middlesborough, on Sept. 12th, by Mr. Elgee " ; sixteen 

 specimens obtained on the Newbald Road, Beverley (Lowther); several speci- 

 mens, one on the south cliff, Sept. 25th, by Mr. Gyngell, Scarborough (Lowns- 

 boro). One example of the var. helice was taken on the Yorkshire coast 

 (Stevens). C. hyale, Bridlington (Corbett), Aug. 25th ; Ripon (Fawcett) ; 

 Beverley (Lowther); seen at Redcar, Middlesborough, and Newtou-under- 

 Roseberry, Sept. 13th (Sachse); oue taken bv a friend, on a privet hedge, at 

 8.45 a.m., near Hull (Cauldwell).— W. Hewett ; 12, Howard Street, York. 



CoLiAs EDUSA AND C. HYALE IN HAMPSHIRE. — On Aug. 25th I cap- 

 tured C. hyale at Fort Cumberiaud, near Portsmouth, on a grassy bank 



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