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entomologizing, I met with two men who had just taken 

 a good specimen of Vanessa Antiopa, It was pinned side- 

 ways in a pasteboard-box, along with a lot of Atalanta, lo, 

 and Gonepteryx Rhamni, which swarm there just now. I 

 secured it for my cabinet. — John Harrison ; Barnsley. 



Vanessa Antiopa in Norfolk. — A specimen of Vanessa 

 Anliopa was taken here on Friday, August 20th, and is added 

 to a private collection in the neighbouring comity of Suffolk. 

 It measures three and one-thirteenth inches across the 

 wings. — JoJrn Tudor Frere ; Roydon Hall, Diss, August 22, 

 1875. [From the ' Field:] 



Vanessa Antiopa in Ireland. — I am happy to tell you that 

 you may add Vanessa Antiopa to the list of Irish Lejji- 

 doptera, a specimen in very fine condition having come into 

 my possession, taken by a nursery-maid on a road in the 

 neighbourhood of Belfast. — JoJin Bristoiv ; Chichester Park, 

 Belfast, Septemher 11, 1875. 



Vanessa Antiopa and Colias Edusa. — My friend Mr. Hill 

 saw a fine specimen of Vanessa Antiopa near Berkeley Road 

 Station, on August . 5th, but did not succeed in capturing it. 

 I have been taking Colias Edusa freely on a railway-bank 

 near here, and also in a clover-field near Chepstow, but 

 found the females very scarce; the proportion being twenty 

 males to one female. Colias Hyale I have not seen. — 

 J. Preston; Fishponds, near Bristol, September 20, 1875. 



Papilio Machaon, Gonepteryx Rhamni, Vanessa lo, and 

 V. Atalanta. — In the Norfolk fens the larvce and pupae of 

 Papilio Machaon have been scarce this season. May not 

 this be attributed to the heavy rains at the season when the 

 larvae were feeding.'' I find Gonepteryx Rhamni and Vanessa 

 lo entirely absent from localities where 1 have never failed to 

 get quantities in former years. Vanessa Atalanta, on the 

 other hand, has been unusually abundant. — R. Laddiman ; 

 Norwich. 



Colias Edusa near Hendon and Hampstead. — I and my 

 brother have within the last fortnight captured three very 

 good specimens of Colias Edusa ; two near Hendon, and one 

 near Hampstead Heath. — J. E. Sharp ; September 6, 1875. 



Colias Edusa near Norivich. — On the 29th of August I 

 saw, at South Walsham, a solitary specimen of Colias Edusa 

 on the wing; on the 30th 1 also observed another near the 



