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I saw a specimen hovering over tobacco flowers in the garden here. — 

 D. Chittenden ; 98, Court Hill Eoad, Lewisham. 



Middlesex. — On October 2nd I took a fine specimen of S. convolviiU 

 at rest on a wall in the High Street, — T. H. L. Grosvenok; Boundary 

 House, Hadley, Middlesex, Oct. lith, 1901. 



I have to record the capture of a fine pair of 6'. coin-ulviili at light 

 near here on Sept. 1st. Five other captures of this species in Hamp- 

 stead and Highgate have come to my knowledge during the past three 

 or four weeks.— L. A. Spencer ; 52, Burghley Eoad, Highgate Eoad, 

 N.W., Oct. 22nd, 1901. 



A fellow student gave me a specimen of *S'. convolvali on Sept. 25th. 

 It was found at rest on a gate-post at Isleworth. — Geo. B. Walch ; 

 Borough Eoad New College, Spring Grove, Isleworth. 



Suiiiersetshire. — Between August 18th and October 10th we have 

 taken fifteen specimens of .S\ cunvolculi, all in the garden flying over 

 the tobacco plant. — J. P. Lawson ; Southview, Princes Eoad, Cleve- 

 don, Somerset. 



Suffolk. — While staying at Bury St. Edmunds recently, I was 

 shown a specimen of S. convolcuU which had been taken in a house in 

 the town about the beginning of September. — A. E. Kiuner ; St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, Oct. 1st, 1901. 



My father picked up a fine specimen of S. coitvolvidi on a road close 

 to the sea on Sept. 23rd at Aldeburgh, Suffolk. — J. C. Walker; 

 41, Hamilton Terrace, N.W. 



Judging from difl'erent reports, S. convolvidi has been unusually 

 plentiful this year. Several specimens have been taken at Stretton, 

 and they have been frequent visitors to the flowers of petunias and the 

 sweet-smelling tobacco plant [Nicotlana ajfiiti!>) in my garden during 

 the month of September. Two or three other specimens which had 

 been taken in the town have also been left at the museum. — Claude 

 A. Pyett ; 28, Waterloo Eoad, Ipswich. 



Worcestershire. — Three specimens of S. convolvidi were captured at 

 Malvern the latter end of September. — W. Edwards ; Malvern. 



CoLiAs EDusA IN CORNWALL. — On May 17th last, I took, near St. 

 Austell, a very fine male specimen of (J. edma. He was very strong 

 in flight, and gave me a smart chase. This was presumably a hyber- 

 nated specimen, and is the only one I have seen in this district for the 

 year. But what I wish especially to comment upon is with reference 

 to my note (Entom. xxxiii. p. 309) wherein I recorded a large capture 

 of C. edum, together with eleven of the beautiful female variety helice. 

 This year I visited the same locahty and at the same time, but without 

 seeing a single specimen of either. This is all the more remarkable 

 as the lucerne field in which I took such numbers last year had not 

 been ploughed up or disturbed in any way, there being a fair quantity 

 of blossoms still in the field, which was being grazed by sheep. The 

 weather was in all respects similar. Of Pyraineis cardui I also took 

 a fair number last year in the same field— this time they also were 

 absent. Is there any probable explanation of these remarkable facts ? 

 — W. A. EoLLAsoN ; The White House, Truro, October, 1901. 



COLIAS EDUSA AND C. HYALE IN HAMPSHIRE.— Although both of 



these species were so abundant here last year, only one specimen of 



