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The Macro-Lepidoptera of Eenfrewshire. — An annotated list 

 of the Lepidoptera, including the Pyralidida) and Pterophoridoo, 

 occurring in Eenfrewshire is published in ' Transactions of the 

 Paisley Naturalists' Society,' vol. ii. pp. 40-60 (1915). The Hst has 

 been compiled by Mr. Alex. M. Stewart. 



COLIAS EDUSA, LyC^NA CORYDON ab. SEMISYNGRAPHA, HeSPERIA 



MALv^ ab. TARAs AT BRIGHTON. — With reference to Mr. F. Jay 

 Arnott's report of G. ednsa in the Dyke Valley, near Brighton, in 

 September, my little daughter, aged twelve, who is a keen entomo- 

 logist, saw one specimen at the same place on September 3rd. As 

 she assisted me to secure a good number in 1913 she was not likely 

 to be mistaken in the insect. On September 5th, in the same valley, 

 she netted amongst L. corydon one nh. semisyngrapha. On a former 

 occasion, in another valley, also H. malvce, ab. taras {lavatcra). 

 Knowing the ordinary form of both latter she recognized her catches 

 w^ere unusual, although she was unaware of their rarity. It may be 

 interesting to record that the latter insect was secured in the same 

 short stretch of valley where the late Mr. Neil McArthur took two 

 L. bceticus in August, 1859, one of which in later years he showed 

 me. With regard to G. edusa I made several excursions last year 

 and this to likely places, but not one did I see. — Louis Meaden ; 

 Melbourne House, Dyke Eoad, Preston, Brighton, October 19th, 

 1915. 



CoLiAs HYALE NEAR EiRiNG LiNE. — My son has asked me to 

 forward the following note to you for publication : — " To one who 

 has never met with the species before, the sight of half a dozen 

 Colias hyale on the wing together near a chalky bank on September 

 19th, a mile or so behind the firing line, gave great pleasure. 

 — F. Norton ; 11th Welsh Eegiment, British Expeditionary 

 Force." 



In a previous letter my son referred to the great pleasure he 

 derived from his knowledge and love of natural history, and the 

 relief it afforded him from the tedious monotony of some of his days 

 of training before he proceeded on active service " somewhere in 

 France." — M. A. Norton ; Skirbeck, Whitchurch Eoad, Cardiff, 

 September 28th, 1915. 



Butterflies in the Trenches. — Mr. Harrold Sims, of the 

 Entomological Society of Montreal, writes on September 21st from 

 Flanders : — " We have had, on the whole, wonderfully fair weather, 

 and some species of Lepidoptera were vary common, even in the 

 trenches. Most kinds have disappeared now, though there are still 

 some late-brood specimens of P. hrassiccz, rapi, najn, V. urticce, 

 P. atalanta, L. icarus, C. hyale. When we first went into the 

 trenches, P. mcegera was extremely abundant, and flew about actually 

 in the trenches and ' dugouts.' It was quite the commonest butter- 

 fly, although all three ' whites ' were very common, and in the 

 waste land just behind the firing line I saw many other species, 

 notably G. hyale, G. edusa (doubtful), G. rhavini (doubtful), urtica, 

 to, polychlorus, cardui, atalanta, egeria, mcera, E. tithonus, jurtina 



BNTOM. — DECEMBER, 1915. 2 E 



