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Vanessa cardui in Java, — I have recently seen a considerable number 

 of these butterflies at and near Lindanglaya, about forty miles from here. 

 Judging from memory they are exactly the same as in England, and 

 certainly haunt similar places, namely, open stony roads. They first occur 

 at about 1500 feet above the sea-level, and I noticed them up to about 

 4000 feet. There the road entered the forest, else doubtless they would 

 have occurred still higher. In Bombay, some years ago, I used to see a 

 great many ; there they occur close to the sea, and at that level. I know 

 V. cardui is a very widely distributed species ; but is it usual to find it so 

 near the equator as Java ? — T. E. Sansom ; Koningsplein, Batavia. 



Ltcjena ICARUS, HERMAPHRODITE. — On June 22nd I was with Mr. T. 

 Brown, collecting on his farm at Keyingham, South-east Yorkshire, when 

 he caught a specimen of L. icarus with the right wings blue, as of the 

 males, and the left wings brown and spotted, like the females. — J. W. 

 Boult; 17, Finsbury Grove, Fountain Road, Hull, July 6, 1889. 



PoLYOMMATUs PHLCEAS var. scHMiDTii. — At a meeting of the North 

 Kent Entomological Society, on June 20th, a splendid specimen of the 

 above variety was exhibited by Mr. W. G. Dawson, which had the whole 

 of the copper colour replaced by a beautiful white silvery sheen. The 

 insect was captured a few days previously on Plumstead Common. — H. F. 

 Webb ; 3, Gunning Street, Plumstead. 



Rhopalocera in Kent. — I captured a magnificent specimen of Colias 

 edusa on the wing, on June 9th, in the chalk-pit at Kemsing, near Seven- 

 oaks, and have heard of two being seen since. I have never taken one 

 before July, though I have been a collector for many years. Tn the Kem- 

 sing district I captured, from May 12th to June 12th, twenty-four different 

 species of butterflies, and a large number of moths— chiefly GeometridaB. 

 They were mostly out much earlier than usual. — Cecil G. Stokoe ; The 

 Rectory, Lutterworth, June 28, 1889. 



Deilephila galii in Cheshire. — I have been informed of the capture 

 this year of two fine specimens of D. galii, in this neighbourhood. They 

 appeared to be fresh from the chrysalis. — J. Arkle ; 2, George Street, 

 Chester, July 9, 1889. 



Deilephila galii in Kent. — Last year I found in this neighbourhood 

 two caterpillars of D. galii and one of C. elpenor. The moths have now 

 emerged, and are without defect. — W. North Buckmaster ; West Cliff 

 Road, Ramsgate, June, 1889. 



Sesia andkeniformis at Dover. — It will interest the readers of 

 * The Entomologist ' to know that I had the pleasure of taking a fine male 

 Sesia andrenifoiiais on July 10th, and another male on July 14th; but I 

 had the misfurtune of missing a female on July 14th. Mr. S. Webb was 

 kind enough to identify them for me. — W. Davis ; 27, Winchelsea Street, 

 Dover, July 16, 1889. 



Sesia ichneumoniformis in Gloucestershire. — On Wednesday, 

 July 17th, while walking along the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal, I saw 

 a male and female of this rather uncommon insect in copula, settled on 

 the bank. I had only a pocket net with me, but managed to secure them. 

 I placed them both in a box covered with muslin, with pieces of sponge 



