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as I anticipated, saw three larvge of Papilio Machao)}, three 

 having already turned to piipas. It was a curious place for 

 these larvae — a herbalist's garden on the top of a chalk-hill, 

 far removed from their usual haunts in this country. The 

 three pupae were the largest I have ever seen, showing that 

 the locality and food-plant were favourable to their develop- 

 ment. I may add that, so far as I could learn, they had not 

 been intentionally introduced to the locality. — A. B. Farn ; 

 Dartford. 



LvCiENA CoRYDON AT HASTINGS — There being no chalk 

 here, or at all near the neighbourhood, 1 was surprised at 

 having taken last month (August) a very perfect specimen of 

 L. Corydon, a female. It was taken in a small waste slip of 

 land, nearly two miles from the sea. I was also successful in 

 securing in the same place a fine hermaphrodite of L. Alexis. 

 — Rosa M. Sotheby; Sunnyside, Hastings. 



[Z. Corydon is to be seen in Switzerland by hundreds 

 together ; as is well known, there is no chalk. — Ed.] 



CoLiAS Edusa in London. — During the present week 1 

 have seen several specimens of C. Edusa in the gardens on 

 the Thames Embankment, near Charing Cross. — A. H. 

 Jones; Shrublands, Eltham, August 17, 1877. 



CoLiAS Edusa in London. — This morning I have seen two 

 beautiful specimens of C. Edusa ; one in a street leading 

 out of the Tottenham Court Road, and another in the 

 neighbourhood of Russell Square. — H. C. Lanu ; 41, Berners 

 Street, W., August 18, 1877. 



CoLiAS Edusa var. Helice. — During this August 1 have 

 obtained, from amongst upwards of twelve hundred C Edusa, 

 fifteen of the variety Helice, one very rich cream-colour, v\ith 

 no spots in the margin, which is couiplelely black. — Thomas 

 Eedle ; 40, Goldsmith's Row, Hackney Road, Aug. 20, 1877. 



Acherontia airopos at Welbeck Abbey. — A fine speci- 

 men of this moth was taken here in the evening of May 29th, 

 while sitting on a wall, apparently at rest. 1 arrived on the 

 spot a few minutes after it was taken, and identified it, as the 

 fortunate captor of the insect had no idea what it was. While 

 imprisoned in his pocket-handkerchief it several tiuies uttered 

 its plaintive cry. — R. A. Rolfe; Welbeck Abbey Gardens, 

 Worksop, Nottinghanishiri'. 



Ch^erocampa Celekio at StJUTHsEA. — 1 have pleasure in 



