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once, on September 4th, when about six were observed during a walk 

 of four miles along the summit of the northern Chiltern escarpment. 

 These particulars will serve to show the scarcity of the butterfly in 

 the district this year, a scarcity which seems to have prevailed also 

 in other places. On September 10th I saw a fresh looking specimen 

 of P. cardui, the only one noticed during my stay. G. argiolus was 

 observed at intervals up to September 8th. — Hugh Scott; Cambridge, 

 September 30th, 1915. 



Vanessa antiopa in Surrey. — It may be of interest to report 

 that a friend of mine (not a collector) residing at Addiscombe, Surrey, 

 had a specimen of Vanessa antiopa fly in his window on September 

 22nd, which he asked me to set for him as a memento. — C. Savillb ; 

 16, Mincing Lane, E.G., October 15th, 1915. 



CoLiAs EDUSA IN 1915. — The only CoUas I have seen alive this 

 year was a specimen of G. edusa, which I think was a female, on 

 South sea Common, September 25th. The appearance of this species 

 in some numbers in the Portsmouth district during August has been 

 noted elsewhere. — Hugh Scott. 



CoLiAs EDusA IN SussEX. — Whilst driving from Arundel on 

 September 8th last, Mr. J. C. Kershaw and I observed a male G. edusa 

 flitting amongst the flowers by the roadside ; it appeared to be in 

 perfect condition. — G. Bertram Kershaw. 



CoLiAS edusa in Hampshire. — On August 19th a male specimen 

 of G. edusa was seen on the cliffs at Milford-on-Sea. — A. S. Corbet. 



CoLiAS EDUSA IN CORNWALL. — I saw no G. edusa this year in 

 Cornwall, and, if I remember rightly, I saw none last year, though 

 during the ten years or more I have been going to West Cornwall, 

 I have seen them, I believe, every year up till 1914. They usually 

 appeared at the end of September, and I have more than once seen 

 more of them in October than in September. Their non-appearance 

 this year had nothing to do with weather, which was of the best. 

 P. cardui was common. But nothing in the way of butterflies this 

 season has struck me so much as the large number of G. argiolus. I 

 have seen them commonly, both early and late broods, nearly every- 

 where I have been, including our own garden at Highbury ; though, 

 of course, they were not numerous there. — Harold Hodge; 

 October 13th, 1915. 



Dragonflies Bred in 1915. — I have bred this year Cordulegaster 

 annulatus (one male, nymph taken in New Forest), Mschna grandis 

 (nymphs from Byfleet), j^. cyanea (nymphs taken at Corfe Castle), 

 Libellida depressa (nymphs from Corfe Castle), Pyrrliosoma nymphula 

 (nymphs from Angarrack, Cornwall^, Agrion puella (nymphs from 

 Byfleet), Galopteryx splendens (nymphs, I beheve, from Kichmond, 

 Surrey ; but I am not certain, as they were not taken by myself). 

 From my experience this has been a late year with dragonflies. The 

 nymphs of nearly every species I had were late in emergence. 

 L. depressa began to come out in July or the last day or two in 

 June; one emerging on July 31st. Latest of all, a Sympetrum 



