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of two examples which I possess in my collection, namely, a green female, 

 at Deal in 1889, and a brown variety of the same sex from the New 

 Forest in Sept. 1891. The latter is the variety hinglei of Curtis. I am 

 only aware of one other record during the same period, namely, of the 

 capture of a specimen in Kent. — W. Harcouut Bath. 



CoLiAs EDUSA, C. HYALB, &c., IN BiiDFORDSHiRE. — (7. et?t<sa appeared in 

 fair numbers here this season ; I took three or four specimens, males, in 

 fair condition, and saw others. On July 25th, 1892, I captured a fine 

 specimen of G. hyale, yellow variety, evidently just emerged. Macroglossa 

 stellataram has been plentiful this year, and the total absence of Vaneasa 

 cardui is most noticeable. — Alfred H. Blake ; High Street, Biggleswade, 

 Beds, November 23rd, 1893. 



Reported occurrence of Coltas hyale in Dorsetshire in 1893. — 

 After reading the note by Mr. F. W. Freir (Entom. xxvi. 32"i), in which he 

 mentions that he saw, but failed to capture, a specimen of Colias hyale at 

 Swanage in August last, I wrote to inform him that this species so rarely 

 visits Dorsetshire that unless he had a sufficiently close view of it at rest to 

 enable him to make sure about the identity of the insect, I had little doubt 

 but that it was only C. edusa var. helice. In his answer Mr. Freir told me 

 that, after thinking over the matter, he had come to the conclusion that my 

 suggestion as to the butterfly being var. helice was in all probability correct, 

 and left me at liberty to publish a note cancelling his former statement 

 (l. c). So very few examples of C. hyale have ever been taken in Dorset 

 that, unless the pale " clouded yellows " that are seen here can be secured, 

 or at any rate identified for certain, the only wise course is to take for 

 granted that they are var. helice, for the onus prohandi clearly rests on 

 those who claim to have met with G. hyale in this county. So far as I am 

 aware, not a single specimen of the latter was observed in Dorset in 1892, 

 although it then occurred, but very rarely, near Bournemouth, in Hants ; 

 that was presumably the most westerly point that it reached on the south 

 coast, for I have not noticed any record of its appearance in either Devon 

 or Cornwall during that year. — Eustace E. Bankes ; The Rectory, Corfe 

 Castle, Oorset, December 19th, 1893. 



[We shall feel greatly obliged to correspondents if they will abstain from 

 recording species of whose identity they are not absolutely certain. — Ed.]. 



Aplecta advena in Ireland. — I caught three specimens of Ajolecta 

 advena here last season. I believe it is the first time this species has been 

 captured, or at all events noted, in Ireland. — W. B. Thornhill ; Castle 

 Cosey, Castle Bellingham, Ireland, December 18th, 1893. 



Epione vespertaria in Hereford. — In the List of Lepidoptera taken 

 last year at or near Hereford (Entom. xxvi. pp, 277, 278), for Epione 

 vespertaria read E. advenaria. 



Reports of Societies. — Although our present number extends to 

 thirty-two pages, publication of the Proceedings of Entomological Societies 

 is unavoidably postponed until February, when a double number will be 

 issued. 



