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PoNTiA (PiERis) DA.PLit)iCE IN Herts. — On May 27th last I caught 

 a male specimen of Pier is dajylidice in a wood not far from Watford. 

 — Leslie Dudley ; Wentworth, The Avenue, Bushey Grove, Watford. 



MELiTiEA ATHALiA IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE. — It may be interesting 

 to record that a specimen of M. athalia was taken on the Cotswolds, 

 near Gloucester, on June 21st, by a young officer from Caml)ridge. 

 It was shown to me and was in fine condition. I am not aware that 

 the species has ever been taken in this county before. Lyccvna avion 

 was early this year, for I saw a worn specimen on the 13th ult. — 

 C. Granville Clutterbuck, F.E.S., 23, Heathville Eoad, Gloucester, 

 July 18th, 1918. 



Vanessa antiopa in Sutherland. — In the ' Field,' June 15th, 

 Mr. W. A. Burwell records having seen, on June 3rd, about 4.30 p.m., 

 a fine specimen of V. antiopa ; it flew by him within two or three 

 yards several times, and he observed the margins of the wings were 

 very light in colour, and he again saw it the following day at the 

 same place and at about the same time. He writes from Strath 

 Naver, Sutherland, N.B. : " From the number of specimens recorded 

 in Scotland during the past spring it appears likely that a vernal 

 immigration of this species may have taken place, as usually 

 hibernated specimens are of very rare occurrence in Britain." — F. W. 

 Frohawk. 



Agrotis simulans near Oxford. — On June 15th last I found a 

 fine female of Agrotis simulans {pyrophila) in my bedroom, evidently 

 only just out. It had probably come into light on the previous 

 evening. I do not know whether it has previously been recorded 

 from this district ; I took it several times at Portland about thirty 

 years ago ; but the nearest recorded locality to Oxford that I can 

 find is in the Cotswolds. — A. W. Pickard-Cambridge; St. Catherine's, 

 Headington Hill, Oxford. 



Butterflies in Abbots Wood, Sussex. — I spent about two hours 

 and a half with a net in Abbots Wood, near Eastbourne, on July 7th. 

 L. sibylla, D. paphia, M. galatea, A. hyperanthus, and E. ianira 

 abounded. With the exception of ianira and hyperanthus, sibylla was 

 the commonest fly in the wood. We took in all about thirty 

 beautifully fresh specimens of this butterfly. — W. G. Harding, F.L.S., 

 F.E.S.; Asclian, St. Vincent's, Eastbourne. 



[L. sibylla was noted in the New Forest on June 15th. During 

 the first week of July the species was abundant at blackberry flowers, 

 especially in the Hurst Hill enclosure. — Ed.] 



Hylophila bicolorana at Shooters Hill. — On June 13th I 

 collected a cocoon of H. bicolorana from which a male emerged on 

 June 27th. The cocoon was on the under side of a beech leaf, and 

 the nearest oak or birch was quite twenty yards away. — George H. 

 Henshall, junior ; 19, Greenvale Eoad, Eltham, S.E. 9. 



Xylomyges conspicillaris. — For the purpose of rearing a brood 

 of larvte of X. conspicillaris I recently dug up and potted a large turf 

 of Lotus corniculatus . In this were several plants of broad-leaved 

 plantain (P. major), and I find the larvae are eating this even more 



