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Sphinx pinastri in Cornwall. — Mr. Geoffrey Harrison, who 

 travelled home from South Africa at his own expense to join the 

 Flying Corps, and was rejected owing to colour-blindness and is 

 about to return, has been kind enough to give me some of his 

 specimens, and amongst them is a specimen of the above. It was 

 taken in Cornwall in 1908 by a schoolboy named Trebath and given 

 by him to Mr. Harrison, then a boy at Dunheved College, Launceston. 

 It was on a white pin unset, and was set by Mr. Harrison on an 

 ordinary No. 5 enamelled black. The specimen has unfortunately 

 lost an antenna and the tip of the left fore wing, but is otherwise in 

 fair condition. — C. Granville Clutterbuck, F.E.S. ; 23, Heathville 

 Eoad, Gloucester, February 2'ith, 1918. 



Pyrameis atalanta, etc., in March. — On March 10th I caught 

 a very good specimen of P. atalanta. I also saw two V. io, two 

 G.rhamni, ancl several A. urticce : of the latter there were quite a 

 dozen settled on some rock flowers. It is an exceptionally mild 

 season and everything is very early in consequence. I have recently 

 taken a few moths quite a month earlier than is usual. — Ebginald 

 J. Ford; The Manor House, Stoke Canon, Exeter. 



Limenitis SIBYLLA, LiNN., AT BuRNHAM Beeches. — As Bucking- 

 hamshire records of the White Admiral Butterfly do not appear to 

 have been any too plentiful of recent years, it may be of interest to 

 mention that a solitary specimen of that species was met with at 

 Burnham Beeches, while my brother and I were staying in the 

 district in the summer of 1917. The capture was made on July 27th, 

 and proved to be a very much worn individual of the male sex. — 

 Herbert Campion ; 58, Eanelagh Eoad, Ealing, W. 5. 



[This is an observation of great interest. Limenitis sibylla was 

 common at Black Park, Stoke Poges, which is not far from Burnham 

 Beeches, in the early part of the nineteenth century (cj). my note, 

 ' Entomologist,' vol. xlviii, p. 143). I have always expected that it 

 would be discovered in the Bucks woods, especially in the south of 

 the county, where there is often plenty of honeysuckle. — H. E.-B.] 



Early Appearance op Gonepteryx rhamni in 1918 and 

 Abundance op Autumn Butterflies in 1917 in South Glouces- 

 tershire. — On January 21st I saw here a G. rhamni on the wing, 

 which seems a very early date. The last fortnight of October, 1917, 

 when I was home on leave from hospital, the number of Butterflies 

 here was astonishing, P. c-album v. Aglais urticce in paticular 

 crowding on the flowers of herbaceous asters. V. io was also very 

 abundant, but I saw no P. cardui. Earlier in the month the numbers 

 were far greater, so my mother told me, the immense number of 

 P. c-alhum particularly noticeable, a few usually occur here every 

 autumn, but very sparingly. — Blanche A. Coi^'ey ; Pucklechurch, 

 Gloucestershire. 



Abundance of Black Phigalia pilosaria at Burnley. — The very 

 mild weather recently induced me to go into the woods in search of 

 P. pilosaria, and, as expected, it proved very abundant, over eighty 



