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the good fortuue to capture a large though somewhat battered example 

 of Pieris daplidict. I also took a couple of beautifullv fresh Colias 

 hifaie, and saw but failed to capture C. edx-sa, all on a path of rough 

 down less than a couule of hundred yards square. — Robert Adkin ; 

 August 19th. 1901. 



Colias htale xear Maldon. — This afternoon I took a male C. hyale 

 in a lucerne field within a stone's-throw of mv house, and in exactly 

 the same part of the field where I took my first specimen on Aug. 11th 

 last year. Clover and lucerne have done better this year than last. 

 and were nearly all cut (second crop) three weeks ago. so that, I hardly 

 anticipate an abundance of Colias round here this year. — (Eev.) Gii:bert 

 H. Eayxor : Hazeleigh Rectoiy, Maldon, Essex, August 16, 1901. 



Colias hyale in Essex. — C. hyale has again put in an appearance 

 here in some numbers this year. My boys captured ten specimens 

 yesterday morning, and fifteen more this morning. I went down to a 

 field of lucerne in full bloom and soon caught six. two being white 

 females. The eggs I had last year (Entom. xxxiii. 27i) hatched, but 

 the young larvie. which were left outdoors on white ciover, were all 

 winter- killed. It does not seem that C. hyaie will stand our climate 

 without some protection through the winter. We have not seen 

 C. edusa at present. — Edwabd A. Fitch : Maldon, August 17, 1901. 



Colias Hyale in Kent, 1901. — Colias hyale I had not taken again 

 after the specimen recorded c.aiff, p. 208 > as taken on June 14tli until 

 9tli inst., when I saw and took one : since then, on 19:h, I saw two and 

 took one. on 20th the same, and on 21st I saw five and took two : to-day 

 I have seen eleven and taken nine. It therefore seems as though this, 

 though in a minor degree compared with last year, is going to be a 

 " hyale year." — H. Huggins, Jun. : 13, Clarence Place. Gravesend, 

 August 22nd, 1901. 



Vanessa polychlokos and Akgynnis paphia at Withesslacs. — ^ hile 

 collecting at Witherslack. Westmoreland, I captm-ed a male T. poly- 

 chloros in splendid condition on July 24th. Mr. George Loxam, who 

 was with me at the time (in fact he saw it first, and drew my attention 

 to it as it came towards me on the wing*, tells me he has never heard 

 of this species being taken in that neighbourhood before, although he 

 has collected in company with the late J. B. Hodgkinson about 

 Witherslack for the past thirty years. On August 3rd I took a male 

 specimen, in fine condition, of A. paphia : this also is, I believe, a 

 record for Witherslack.— C. H. Fobsyths : County Asylum, Lancaster, 

 August 9th, 1901. 



Note on Vanessa poLYcai.osos at Lee. — A specimen of V. poly- 

 chloros was discovered on the landing wall. It remained in the same 

 position for a week (being rather high up, I took it for V. urtictn, and 

 on July 2Tth I examined it. It was somewhat battered, and looked 

 like a hybernated specimen, bni I suppose it would be too late for 

 that. Directly I put it in the sun it flew away. The locality may be 

 of interest, as' I see from Mr. Front's • Fauna of the London District " 

 that Dulwich and Crovdon :ire the oniv two S.E. localities given.— 

 F. M. B. Cake : 4t>, Handen Eoad, Lee.'S.E., July 29. 1901. 



HNTOM. — SEPTSMBEK, 1901- ^ 



