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Pararge mcera, here and there over rocky dry water-courses in the 

 mountains, from May 15th. P. inegwru, common everywhere. P. egeria, 

 common in shady lanes, and among foliage. They were all of the southern 

 type of colour. 



Epinepliele ianira, males were common from May 15th ; specimens 

 were very large. E. pasiphae, on hill-sides ; common locally. 



Ccenonympha pamphilus, common everywliere. 



Spilothgrus alcece, was fairly common in warm dry nooks all April. 



Sgrichthus sidtc, very local ; occurred in clearings in woods here and 

 there in small numbers ; flies rather late in al'ternoon. S. malvce, 

 abundant. /S. orhifer, occurs sparingly in May. S. sao, fairly comraou 

 over flowers of lavender and thyme. 



Nisoniades tages, common in stony valleys near sea. 



I was disappointed in not meeting with the tailed blues, 

 L. telicaiius and L. hcetica, and others that should have been 

 out; but, as I have said, the season was not very propitious. 



Hytires, May 24, 1889, (20, Courtfleld Gardens, Earl's Court, W.) 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



Spring Rhopalocera. — It will be encouraging to beginners to know 

 that I have, this season, taken no less than twenty-four species of butterflies 

 up to the 15th of June, in one locality in Surrey. Most of them were 

 comparatively abundant. — John T. Carrington. 



CoLiAS EDUSA IN Wa^es. — I saw a specimen of Collas ednsa, a male, 

 I believe, on the wing this morning, a few miles from here. It will he 

 interesting to notice whether we are at last going to have a " clouded 

 yellow year," though I presume the one I saw had hybernated. — W. E. R. 

 Allen; Porthkerry Rectory, Cowbridge, S.Wales, June 13, 1889. 



Scarcity of Tiiecla w-album. — It does not seem to be a good year 

 for Thecla iv-album, as I have only taken one or two of tlie larvJB and 

 pupjB in places where last year I took several dozen. — W. E. R. Allen ; 

 Porthkerry Rectory, Cowbridge, S. Wales, June 13, 1889. 



Vanessa milrertii. — I have to-day taken an example of V. milhertli, 

 here, at West Cliff, flying on a dry sunny bank near a swamp, where 

 V. aiitiopa and Pgrameis canlui were also on the wing. It is a variety, 

 which I will call suhpallida, characterised by the broad reddish fulvous 

 band on the upper side being, at its upper extremity and for a considerable 

 area about its middle, of a pale yellowish colour. Prof. French (' Butt. 

 Eastern United States,' p. 195) has also recorded this form from Colorado, 

 for he says, "one example from Colorado has fully half the pale band buff." 

 This is very interesting, because it is one of those pale forms produced in 

 the arid region, where we see that as moisture causes darkening, so dryness 

 tends to bleach; and this is so noteworthy in parts of Arizona and Mexico 

 as to give a special character to mammals, birds, and insects alike. Lately 

 I have found Aphudiiis vittutu^ here in considerable plenty ; and although 



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