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liybernatiou ? or may the larvfe be more often attacked by birds in 

 some places than others ? As regards hybernation, the Welsh valleys 

 would be both moister and in many instances colder in the winter than 

 in some other counties. In fact, it seems one of those mysteries in 

 insect life difficult to] comprehend and explain. And then of Vanessa 

 cardui '. its food-plant, a perfect pest often to the agriculturist, 

 increased of late years in many districts, and yet this butterfly is 

 scarcely seen season after season. In referring to my notes, I have 

 only recorded 1892 as a good cardui year, although some few appeared 

 in 1891, and this in a seventeen years' record. But cardui prefers, I 

 think, warm dry districts like the limestone or chalk. — T. B. Jefferys ; 

 Bath. 



CAPTURES AND FIELD REPORTS. 



PiERis DAPLiDiCE IN Jersey. — On Aug. 9th, while collecting at 

 Pontac, in Jersey, I obtained a very good specimen of P. daplidice. I 

 should like to know if this butterfly occurs commonly in the island. — 

 S. F. P. Blyth; Cleeveland, Chislehurst, Kent, Sept. 4th, 1901. 



CoLiAs HYALE IN BERKSHIRE. — Tliis is now the second year in suc- 

 cession it has been my good fortune to take the pale clouded-yellow 

 butterfly, my first capture this season being on Aug. 20th, at Streatley, 

 flying over clover. I then netted two specimens, and saw another, which 

 I failed to catch. Since this date I have taken four more, all being 

 very perfect, and apparently freshly emerged. Although I have carefully 

 searched lucerne and clover fields, in full bloom, for C. edusa, up to the 

 present I have not seen one. This is somewhat curious, considering 

 how plentiful it was in both Oxfordshire and Berkshire last year. — 

 Harold Thompson; 31, Beaumont Street, Oxford, Sept. 11th, 1901. 



COLIAS EDUSA AND C. HYALE IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 1 had my first 



glimpse of C. hyale on Aug. 18th, at Chesham, when I gave chase to a 

 specimen that was flying rapidly over a clover-field. It was not 

 captured. On the 19th, when journeying from Chesham to Rickmaus- 

 worth, I noted one C. hyale flitting about a small patch of lucerne, 

 close to the line near Chalfont Road station. Finding clover-fields 

 rather scarce at Rickmansworth, on the 21st I went to Chalfont Road 

 and took two (7. hyale on the patch of lucerne referred to ; also two 

 more from clover- fields when returning to Rickmansworth. I went 

 again on the 22ud and took seven specimens, and on the morning of 

 the 25th (a hazy morning) I netted four, and one example of C. edusa. 

 Other hijale were seen, but only the one edusa. — G. B. Oliver; Tetten- 

 hall, Wolverhampton, Aug. 27th, 1901. 



CoLiAs HYALE IN EssEX.— We have at Southend this year an abun- 

 dance of C. hyale. I have not seen it here in such numbers since the 

 summer of 1892 ; then it was accompanied by C. edusa; this year the 

 latter species is absent.— (Rev. ) Henry C. Lang ; All Saints Vicarage, 

 Southend-on-Sea, Sept 3rd, 1901. 



CoLiAs HYALE IN HAMPSHIRE.— I had a fine specimen of this butter- 

 fly brought to me by a friend this morning, who also saw another, 



